Prime Minister George Grenville enacts the Stamp Act.
Parliament enacts the Townshend Acts.
The Boston Massacre takes place outside of the Boston Customs House.
Parliament passes the Tea Act.
The Dartmouth arrives in the Boston harbor with the first shipment of tea.
Due to the disagreement with the Tea Act by the Bostonians, John Singleton Copley decides to mediate between the Consignees and the Bostonians.
The Bostonians find the offer of the Consignees to store the tea as unacceptable.
Bostonians learn that Consignees in Philidelphia and New York resign.
Bostonians make a last attempt to try and convince Governor Hutchinson to send the tea shipment back, but their efforts are futile.
Samuel Adams declares "This meeting can do nothing more to save this country"
While leaving the church a group of people shouted "Boston harbor a tea-pot tonight! The Mohawks are coming!"
In the morning
Between 6 p.m and 9 p.m. a group of men dressed as Mohawk Indians showed up to the Boston Harbor
Weighing over 92,000 pounds,the cargo was worth more than $1,700,000 dollars in today’s money
The men threw 342 chests of tea overboard into the Boston harbor
The midnight raid was a protest of the Tea Act of 1773, a bill enacted by the British parliament to save the faltering British East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade.
