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Samuel Maverick establishes a fishing outpost on Noddle's Island, now East Boston
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William Blackstone builds his house on a peninsular people call place of clear water
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John Winthrop comes to Boston to create " a city upon a hill".
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Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Mary Dyer was an English Puritan turned Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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King Philips was an Indian rebellion against continuing Puritan incursions into Native American lands.
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Annie Glover was hanged in Boston amidst mocking shouts from the crowd.
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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in the counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex in colonial Massachusetts.
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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used
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The Sons of Liberty ransack the home of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson.
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Two british regiments arrive in Boston; the siege of the Manufactory House occurs.
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Chistopher Seider was killed in a political fight in Boston. His funeral became a major political event, and his killing heightened tensions that erupted into the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770.
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The Boston Massacre, called the Boston Riot by the English, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British redcoats killed five civilian men.
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Colonists dumped tea in Boston Harbor, in what becomes known as the Boston Tea Party.
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Paul Revere's Ride is a poem by an American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
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The British seize Breed's Hill after a day of fighting.
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The British evacuation of Boston was a major victory for the patriots, and Washington's first victory.
