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Cambridge, Massachusetts

city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States of America

8 dated entries naming Cambridge, Massachusetts, drawn from 8 separate years between 1639 CE and 1957 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

  • 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

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