page_title: Timeline of Nantucket
section_title: 18th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Nantucket / 18th century
caption_attribution_description: Map of the island of Nantucket Author: St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector Date: 1782 Dimensions: 20 x 28 cm. Scale: ca. 1:110,000 Reference: LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 882 Call Number: From the Collections of the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA.
context_section_description: 1712 – Sperm whaling begins.
  1713 – Tuckernuck Island becomes part of Nantucket County.
  1732 – Quaker meeting house built.
  1746 – Lighthouse and East Mill constructed.
  1774 – Population: 4,545.
  1775 – Nantucket tentatively states their neutrality during the American Revolutionary War.
  1779 – April: British loyalists raid island.
  1795 – Town of Sherburne renamed "Nantucket."
caption: Map of the Island of Nantucket, 1782, by Crèvecœur
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