1664 New Jersey becomes a colony of England.
1664 The colony of New Jersey is founded.
1673 John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
1766 The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
1777 American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey
1783 A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
1787 New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1789 New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1815 New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
1831 The locomotive ''John Bull'' operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
1927 The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
1931 The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1932 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
1934 Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner {{SS|Morro Castle}} kills 135 people.
1950 A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
1955 The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network.
1956 First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
1956 A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
1998 The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
2001 First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2001 Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
2004 New Jersey Governor James McGreevey comes out publicly as gay and would resign from office the following November.