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Samuel Maverick builds a trading post at Noodle Island.
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William Blackstone builds his house on a peninsular people call place of clear waters.
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John Winthrop comes to Boston to create "a city upon a hill"
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Anne Hutchison is banished from Boston.
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Mary Dyer is exeuted for being a Quaker.
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Was an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day southern New England and English colonists and their Native American allies in 1675–76. The war is named after the main leader of the Native American side, Metacomet, known to the English as "King Philip".
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Goodwife Glover is executed in Boston for "witchcraft"
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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, between February 1692 and May 1693. Despite being generally known as the Salem witch trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in a variety of towns across the province: Salem Village (now Danvers), Ipswich, Andover and Salem Town.
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Many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
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A mob ransacks Lieutenant governor Thomas Hutchison's home.
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Arrival of two regiments of "Red Coats" on Long Wharf.
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Christopher Seider along with a dozen other school boys were among an angry mob in front of a building throwing rocks at the shop of a Loyalist merchant. Ebenezer shot Christopher Seider.
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British redcoats killed five civilian men. British troops had been stationed in Boston since 1768 in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation.
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Colonists dressed as Indains dumped tea into the Boston Harbor.
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British troops march to Lexington and Concord but are turned back.
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British seize Breed's Hill after a day of fighting.
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Alerting Colonial militia of approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord.
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British General William Howe, whose garrison and navy were threatened by these positions, was forced to decide between attack and retreat. To prevent what could have been a repeat of the Battle of Bunker Hill, Howe decided to retreat, withdrawing from Boston to Nova Scotia on March 17.
