Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in Cambridge.

General Court charges Williams with having “broached and dyvulged dyvers newe & dangerous opinions, against the authorities of magistrates,” which include separation of church and state and better treatment toward Native Americans. When soldiers from Boston go to Salem to arrest him in January 1636, Williams first taking refuge with Wampanoag sachem Massasoit (Ousamequin), then flees to today’s Providence, Rhode Island. Williams’ banishment is rescinded so he can take refuge in Massachusetts during King Philip’s war, but he is pardoned by the Massachusetts legislature in 1936.