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Cambridge, Massachusetts

city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States of America

10 dated entries naming Cambridge, Massachusetts, drawn from 10 separate years between 1639 CE and 1960 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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17th century

  • 1639c. January – The first printing press in British North America is started in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Stephen Daye.source
  • 1663Publication at Cambridge in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the "Eliot Indian Bible" (Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God), which becomes the first complete Bible published in the Americas, a translation by English-born Puritan missionary John Eliot of the Geneva Bible, from English into the Massachusett language (Natic or Wômpanâak) variety of the Algonquian languages.source
  • 1676May 31 – The Massachusetts Council finally decides to move the Christian Indians from Deer Island to Cambridge, Massachusetts (approximate date).source
  • 1680July 8 – The first documented tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.source

18th century

  • 1755September 18 – Two slaves, Mark and Phyllis, are publicly executed for the poisoning murder of their master, John Codman in front of a large crowd outside the Middlesex County Courthouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Phyllis is burned to death. Mark's execution by hanging is made as an example to other African slaves in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. His body is transported to Charlestown Common in what is now Somerville and displayed on a gibbet for more than 20 years. In 1798, Paul Revere mentions in his memoir that his famous ride of April 18, 1775, started when he first spotted British Army officers at a site "nearly opposite where Mark was hung in chains", I saw two men on Horse back, under a Tree".source
  • 1775December 5 – American Revolution: Henry Knox begins his journey to Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that has been captured from Fort Ticonderoga.source

19th century

  • 1875June 4 – Two American colleges play each other in arguably the first game of college football: Tufts University and Harvard University at Jarvis Field in Cambridge, Massachusetts.source
  • 1876February–March – The Harvard Lampoon humor magazine is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.source

20th century

  • 1957October 11 – The orbit of the last stage of the R-7 Semyorka rocket (carrying Sputnik I) is first successfully calculated on an IBM 704 computer at the MIT Computation Center as part of Operation Moonwatch, Cambridge, Massachusetts.source
  • 196014 June - 14 July - 33 years after his birth in Cambridge, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej made the first of two return visits to the United States. And the rest of the Royal Family heads for a state visit.source

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