1630 - 1679
1630Newtowne (Cambridge) is selected as "a fit place for a fortified town" and a potential colonial capital.
1632
The Braintree Company arrives. The First Meeting House is built at Mount Auburn and Dunster Streets.
1633
Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone are installed as Pastor and Teacher in October.
1636
Thomas Shepard is installed as Pastor on February 1. Thomas Hooker and most of his congregation move to Hartford on June 1.
1637
In a controversy concerning the interpretation of Scripture, Anne Hutchinson is tried in the Cambridge Meeting House.
1648
The first statement of doctrine - The Cambridge Platform of Church Doctrine and Discipline - is completed in the Cambridge Meeting House.
1650
The 40 ft. x 40 ft. Second Meeting House (1650-1706) is built in the center of Harvard Square.
1679
Urian Oakes, Pastor since 1671, becomes President of Harvard - a college established to train ministers in New England.