• 1849-1856: Many English in Boston are under the influence of the Know-Nothing Party, which has an anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant platform.
• 1850: According to the census, New England has 11% of English-born residents. This percentage remains constant until 1890 when it rises to 14.7%. Historians examining the 1850 census have determined that the English lived in no particular district of the city; like the French and Germans, they were dispersed throughout Boston.
• 1854: The first peak occurs fourteen years into the first wave of nineteenth century English immigration.
• 1859: Cambridge, Massachusetts physician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) uses the term "Brahmin caste of New England" for the Anglo-Saxon elite in Boston.
• 1860: Another study of the English living in Massachusetts finds that they live near one another less frequently than do the Irish, Scottish and Canadian communities. The exception is when they make up a large majority of the factory population in an industrial town; for example, calico printers from Lancashire live in English Row in Lowell, Massachusetts and workers in Waltham, Massachusetts live in their own area.
• 1866: In Lawrence, Massachusetts, the Arlington Association has 3,400 English workers as members.
• 1867: Fall River Workingman's Cooperative Association establishes a consumer co-op.
• 1870s: As the Back Bay is filled in, many street names have English origins, e.g. Berkeley, Clarendon, and Dartmouth.
• 1873: The second peak of nineteenth century English immigration occurs with 75,000 immigrants during a nine-year wave. The English are third most numerous behind German and Scandinavian immigrants.
• 1874: Fall River coal and ore miners incorporate a congregation of the distinctively English sect, Primitive Methodism.
• 1876: Lancashire workers in Fall River, Massachusetts start an English-American Club to lobby for more power in the city government. Likewise, the English workers start clubs in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1883 and Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1886.
• 1882 and 1888: The third peak in nineteenth century English immigration occurs with 82,000 immigrants in the wave between 1879-1893. This is the last sustained wave of English immigration to the United States.
• 1885: National Mule Spinners Union is founded in southern Massachusetts and headed by Lancashire-born Robert Howard; another countryman, James Tansey, succeeds him.
• 1887: The entry of 400 ticket-holders to the Faneuil Hall banquet for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee is disrupted by Irish protestors.
• 1887-1913: British-American Citizen is published as part of the larger English-American political movement.
• 1889: Twenty-nine Odd Fellow Lodges, with 1,600 members, exist in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
• 1890: The census indicates that Boston is the city with the fifth most English-born (13,454) in the United States and that they are 3% of the city's population. The number of English-born residents increased by 7,456 since 1870. Cambridge, Massachusetts native James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) publishes his anti-English views, despite his grandmother having been a Loyalist in the Revolution.
• 1895: With the knowledge of three ancestors who came to America on the Mayflower, Winston Churchill (1874-1965) makes his first visit to the United States long before becoming English Prime Minister during World War II.
• 1898: The Anti-Imperialism League is founded in Boston. It is part of a larger movement which is lead by Massachusetts Senator George Hoar and Maine Senator Eugene Hale and which opposes the American acquisition of territory and the suppression of popular insurrections in the Philippines and Cuba.
• 1898-1914: Possessing an English background returns to being a positive good as anti-immigrant sentiment increases. The identification with and admiration of English traits is cemented in the world wars.
• 1900-1912: Boston British societies celebrate the Dickens Centenary.
• 1915: Essayist John Jay Chapman (1862-1933) describes Boston resident Martin Brimmer (1829-1896) as "The Perfect Brahmin."
• 1919: Governor and future president Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) suppresses the Boston Police strike. Coolidge resided in Northampton, Massachusetts during most of his life.
• 1927:The President of Harvard University, A. Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943), presides over the committee looking into the Sacco-Vanzetti trial. Under suspicious circumstances, two Italian anarchists were convicted of murdering a South Braintree man in 1920. Lowell's committee did not acquit them, and the men were executed. In 1977, Governor Michael Dukakis proclaimed that the trial had been unjust.
• 1932: Boston native and son of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) retires as the oldest man ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court.
• 1933: Alfred Coulthand, an English shipyard worker, leads Lynn General Electric workers to form the independent Electrical Industrial Employees Union. By 1940, Lynn Local 201 is the largest of any local union of the United Electrical Workers.
• 1947: Open-air museum Plimoth Plantation exhibits the earliest English colony in New England.

See 1750-1849 | See 1950-present