January 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1739 Incorporation of the town of Brunswick. 1814 Incorporation of the town of Phippsburg. 1826 Incorporation of the towns of Cutler, East Machias,…
January 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1893 James G. Blaine dies at the Seward House in Washington, D.C. 1915 The Bath bark William P. Frye was stopped by Germans…
January 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1657 Birth date in France of Jesuit Father Sebastian Rasle, killed when English colonials raided Norridgewock in 1724. 1789 Incorporation of…
January 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1822 Incorporation of the town of Dutton (now Glenburn) and Parkman. 1833 Incorporation of the town of Waltham. 1834 Incorporation of the town…
January 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1872 First publication of the newspaper the North Star of Caribou published by by W. T. Sleeper & Company. 1923 Dora Bradbury…
January 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1789 Incorporation of the town of Cushing. 1792 Incorporation of the town of Sidney. 1797 Birth date of…
January 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1764 Incorporation of the town of Topsham. 1801 Incorporation of the town of Strong. 1824 Incorporation of the…
January 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1832 Maine legislature holds it first session in the new State Capitol 1875 First publication of the newspaper the Chase’s Mills Chronicle.…
January 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1786 A report issued by the second convention to discuss the possibility of Maine separating from Massachusetts, held the previous day,…
January 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1884 First publication of the newspaper the Biddeford Daily Journal by C. H. Prescott. 1900 The Bangor Painters, Decorators…
https://maineanencyclopedia.com/january-6/ January 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1854 Early American novelist Sally Sayward Barrell (Madame Wood) of Portland dies. She developed her own style using American…
January 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1857 Hannibal Hamlin resigns his U.S. Senate seat to become Governor of Maine, serving only two months before resuming his Senate…
January 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1770 As a result of rains the day before, the “Great Freshet of 1770” caused substantial flooding along the lower…
January 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1880 Shipwreck of the two masted schooner Mateira off Green Point, a mile west of Quoddy Head. The crew of five was saved.…
July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1881 First international telephone conversation, Calais to St Stephen, New Brunswick. 1896 Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which she wrote…
July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1876 James G. Blaine resigns his seat in Congress and begins service in the U.S. Senate, having been Speaker of the U. S.…
July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1713 The “Treaty of Portsmouth” ceding Indian lands to the English “in the eastern country” was signed by eight sagamores. 1899 Birth date…
July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1817 Birth date of Henry David Thoreau, who traveled to Maine, climbed Mount Katahdin, and wrote of his travels in the state 1872…
July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1877 Birth date of Republican Governor (1929-1933) Carl E. Milliken of Island Falls. 1947 The newly created town of Fox Isle changes it…
July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1658 Incorporation of the towns of Falmouth and Scarborough 1772 Incorporation of the town of Buxton 1848 Incorporation of the town of Milbridge…