Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603–1683)
6 dated entries naming Roger Williams, drawn from 6 separate years between 1603 CE and 1644 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
- 1603December 21 – Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684)source
- 1631February 5 – Puritan leader Roger Williams arrives in Boston.source
- 1635October 9 – Rhode Island founder Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident, after speaking out against punishments for religious offenses, and giving away Native American land.source
- 1636June 20 – Roger Williams and other Puritan settlers become founders of the colony of Providence Plantations, which later joins neighbouring territory to become the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The area today is the U.S. state of Rhode Island.source
- 1643Roger Williams, co-founder of Rhode Island, publishes A Key into the Language of America.source
- 1644March 24 – Roger Williams is granted an official grant for his Rhode Island Colony from the Parliament of England, allowing the establishment of a general assembly.source
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- Rhode Island (3)
- Boston (1)
- Massachusetts Bay Colony (1)