What are the main events in the story "The Minister's Black Veil"?

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil" is, like
his novel The Scarlet Letter, an expose of the hypocrisy of the
Puritans and the destructive power of secret sin.  Thus, the action that is pivotal to
the plot is, of course, the donning of the dark veil over his face by the Reverend Mr.
Hooper.  From this action, all reactions
follow. 

• There are mixed reactions from the
  congregation after Mr. Hooper's sermon about secret sin                                 
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At the close of the services the people hurried
out with indecorous confusion....Some gathered in little circles...with their mouths all
whispering in the center; some went homeward alone, warapped in silent meditation; some
talked loudly and profaned the Sabbath day with ostentatious laghter.  a few shook their
sagacious heads, intimating that they could penetrate the mystery, while one or two
affirmed that there was no mystery at
all.

• For the first
  time, no one invites Mr. Hooper to partake of the Sunday meal at his/her
  home.


• When Mr. Hooper does not remove the veil, people
  begin to believe that he may be hiding something, yet no one "chose to make the black
  veil a subject of friendly remonstrance." The veil becomes a "symbol of a fearful secret
  between him and them."


• Even his fiancee has doubts.When
  Mr. Hooper refuses to lift the veil and let her look in his face, Elizabeth bids him
  farewell.


• After this incident, no attempts are made to
  lift what Mr. Hooper has called but a "mortal veil--it is not for eternity."  No one
  seeks to discover the secret which it supposedly
  hides.


• As Mr. Hooper walks the streets, the timid turn
  aside and flee.  Others of "hardihood" would throw themselves in his way.  Children
  would hide; a "fable went the rounds, that the stare of the dead people drove him
  thence."


• Affected with an "ambiguity of sin or sorrow,
  which enveloped the poor minister so that love or sympathy could never reach him."  He
  is ostracized from the community.


• But, he becomes "a man
  of awful power over souls that were in agony for sin.  His converts tell him that before
  they have been brought to the "celestial light," they, too, hid behind a
  "veil."


• He is given the honor of preaching at Election
  Day as he sets the tone appropriate for the Puritan
  occasion.


• Mr. Hooper spends his long life "irreproachable
  in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions"; he is unloved and
  dreaded.


• As he lies dying, the Reverend Mr. Hooper yet
  refuses to lift his veil so that he should not "leave a shadow on his memory," as
  another minister beseeches him.  Before he dies Mr. Hooper states Hawthorne's
  theme,

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"Why do you tremble at me alone?....Tremble also
at each other!  Have men avoided me, and women shown no pity, and chren screamed and
fled, only for my black veil?...When the friend shows his inmost heart tohis friend, the
lover to his best-beloved; when man does not vainly shrink from the eye of his creator,
loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster, for the symbol
beneath which I have lived, and die!  I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black
Veil!"

• The
  villagers bury the Reverend Mr. Hooper without removing his black
  veil.