Cape Cod Timeline of Events

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Cape Cod

Cape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States...

Timeline of Events

1602

5.15.1602

Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to see Cape Cod.

1620

11.9.1620

Pilgrims aboard the ''Mayflower'' sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

11.11.1620

The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.