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1675 | January - John Sassamon dies at Assawampsett Pond |
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1675 | June - Sassamon's alleged murderers are executed at Plymouth |
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1675 | June - Rhode Island, Plymouth, and Massachusetts authorities attempt negotiation with Philip and seek guarantees of fidelity from Nipmucks and Narragansetts |
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1675 | June - Hostilities broke out in the town of Swansea |
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1675 | June - Massachusetts troops march to Swansea to join Plymouth troops |
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1675 | June - Wampanoags attack Rehoboth and Taunton, elude colonial troops, and leave Mount Hope for Pocasset |
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1675 | June - Mohegans travel to Boston and offer to fight on the English side |
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1675 | July - Wampanoags attack Middleborough and Dartmouth |
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1675 | July - Nipmucks attack Mendon |
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1675 | July - Narragansetts sign a peace treaty with Connecticut |
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1675 | July - Massachusetts envoy attempts to negotiate with the Nipmucks |
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1675 | July - Philip and his troops escape an English siege and flee Pocasset for Nipmuck territory |
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1675 | August - Nipmucks attack Massachusetts troops and besiege Brookfield |
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1675 | August - Massachusetts Council orders Christian Indians confined to praying towns |
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1675 | August - A group of unidentified Indians kill seven colonists at Lancaster |
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1675 | August - Captain Samuel Moseley arrests fifteen Hassanemesit Indians near Marlborough for the Lancaster assault and marches them to Boston |
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1675 | September - Wampanoags and Nipmucks attack Deerfield. Massachusetts forces led by Moseley attack the town of Pennacook |
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1675 | September - Colonists abandon Deerfield, Squakeag, and Brookfield |
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1675 | September - Narragansetts sign a treaty with the English in Boston. Massachusetts troops are ambushed near Northampton |
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1675 | October - The government, still distrustful of peaceful Indians, began to deport Indians to various islands. Many such Indians, crowded onto barren islands, died from hunger or disease that winter |
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1675 | October - Pocumtucks attack and destroy Springfield |
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1675 | October - Massachusetts Council orders Christian Indians removed to Deer Island |
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1675 | October - English repel Indians from Hatfield |
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1675 | November - Nipmucks take captive Christian Indians at Magunkaquog, Chabanakongkomun, and Hassanemesit, including James Printer |
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1675 | November - Commissioners of the United Colonies order a united army to attack the Narragansetts |
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1675 | December - Massachusetts Council prints a broadside explaining the case against the Narragansetts |
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1675 | December - United colonial forces attack Narragansetts at the Great Swamp |
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1676 | January - Philip travels westward to Mohawk territory, seeking, but failing to secure, an alliance |
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1676 | January - Joshua Gift is captured by the English |
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1676 | January - Narragansetts attack Pawtuxet |
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1676 | February - Nipmucks attack Lancaster; Mary Rowlandson is taken captive |
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1676 | February - Philip and Wampanoags attack Northampton. Massachusetts Council debates erecting a wall around Boston |
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1676 | February - Nipmucks attack Medfield |
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1676 | February - Massachusetts General Court debates the fate of Christian Indians. Indians assault sites within ten miles of Boston |
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1676 | March - Nipmucks attack Groton |
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1676 | March - Longmeadow, Marlborough, and Simsbury are attacked |
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1676 | March - Nipmucks attack English forces near Sudbury |
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1676 | March - Indians attack Rehoboth |
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1676 | March - Providence is destroyed |
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1676 | April - Indians attack Sudbury |
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1676 | May - Mary Rowlandson is released and returns to Boston |
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1676 | May - English forces attack sleeping Indians near Deerfield |
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1676 | May - Indians attack Hatfield |
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1676 | May - Christian Indians are moved from Deer Island to Cambridge |
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1676 | June - Indians attack Hadley but are repelled by Connecticut soldiers |
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1676 | June - Massachusetts issues a declaration of amnesty for Indians who surrender |
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1676 | June - Captain Tom is executed in Boston |
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1676 | July - Major John Talcott and his troops begin sweeping Connecticut and Rhode Island, capturing large numbers of Algonquians who are transported out of the colonies as slaves throughout the Summer; James Printer surrenders in Cambridge |
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1676 | July - Captain Benjamin Church and his soldiers begin sweeping Plymouth for Wampanoags; Indians attack Taunton but are repelled |
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1676 | July - Nearly two hundred Nipmucks surrender in Boston |
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1676 | August - Benjamin Church captures Philip's wife and son |
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1676 | August - Philip is killed by a Wampanoag fighting with Captain Benjamin Church, his death effectively ended the natives' resistance in New England |
