| Year |
History |
| 1497 |
European fishing
boats soon began fishing at Grand Bank off of the coast of Maine soon
after the visit of Sebastian Cabot |
| 1614 |
Thomas Hunt
kidnapped several Wampanoag and later sold them in Spain; one, Squanto,
would eventually make his way back to Massachusetts only to find out his
village had been wiped out by an epidemic |
| 1617 |
Escaped
great pestilence, and were increased in numbers by refugees |
| 1620 |
Pilgrims anchored
off Cape Cod, came ashore and unknowingly desecrated a Nauset
burial site by removing corn and gifts left for the deceased; they then
escaped and settle at Squanto's old village site, Abenaki Samoset and
Squanto helped the Pilgrims thereafter |
| 1621 |
Wampanoag chief
Massiot signed treaty of peace with Pilgrims allowoing them to occupy
12,000 acres; Massiot and 90 of his men were invited to the first
Thankgiving bringing five deer |
| 1622 |
Squanto died, 40
more Pilgrims arrived by ship, food was provided for them by the Nauset |
| 1623 |
Massiot, extremely
ill, was brought back to health by the English |
| 1630 |
Massive immigration
of militant Puritans absorbed Plymouth Colony |
| 1632 |
English helped
Massiot's village repulse a Narragansett attack |
| 1640 |
The missionary
efforts of John Elliot succeeded in converting most of the Wampanoag to
Christianity; Indians were placed in "Praying Villages" |
| 1661 |
Death of Massiot, son
Alexander became grand sachem of the Wampanoag only to be poisoned by
the Puritans, brother Metacomet or Philip became known as King Philip |
| 1671 |
Philip tried to build
a confederacy with other tribes but was forced to sign a agreement to
surrender his arms which he signed but never gave up the arms |
| 1675 |
King Philip's War
over the hanging of three warriors, Wampanoag joined by the Nipmuc,
Pocomtuc, Abenaki, and Pennacook; neutral tribes provided food and
shelter; Philip attacked Swasea, an English column, Taunton, Tiverton,
and Dartmouth with more than 1,000 warriors; "Praying Indians"
supported Philip; the war continued in Nipmuc territory culminating with
the killed of more than 70 English soldiers at Bloody Brook south of
Deerfield; fighting force grew to 2,000 and nearly starved during the
winnter |
| 1676 |
Philip launched new
raids in the spring at Lancaster, Medfield, Weymouth, Groton, Warwick
(Rhode Island), Marlborough, Rehoboth, Plymouth, Chelmsford, Andover,
Sudbury, Brookfield, Scituate, Bridgewater, and Namasket and many great
successes until the Narragansett and Pocumtucwere repulsed in battles at
Northfield and Deerfield.; Narragansett chief Canonchet was captured and
executed by the Mohegan marking the turn in the war; Captain William
Turner attacked a fishing camp at Turner's Falls killing over 400;
Philip's confederacy began to break up; Philip and the Wampanoag
returned to their homeland in southeast Massachusetts; Wampanoag were
hunted down by Captain Benjamin Church's rangers and Praying Indian
scouts, Philips wife and son were captured, Philip was betrayed by an
informer in a swamp near Mount Hope where he was shot, beheaded and
quartered and his hear was displayed on a pole at Plymouth for 25 years,
it was reported that Philip's wife and son were sold as slaves but they
apparently joined the Sosoki (Abenaki) at Odanak, only 400
Wampanoag had survived the war |
| 1673 |
Nantucket epidemic |
| 1928 |
Wampanoag reorganized
as the Wampanoag Nation |
| 1987 |
Wampanoag of Gay Head
became federally recognized |
