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Samuel Maverick
Samuel Maverick builds a trading post at Noodle Island. -
Wiliam Blackstone
Wiliam Blackstone builds his house on a peninsular people call place of waters. -
John Winthrop
John Winthrop comes to Boston to create "a city upon a hill". -
Anne Hutchison
Anne Hutchison is banished from Boston. -
Mary Dyer is executed.
Mary Dyer is executed for heresy on Boston Common. -
King Phillips War
Indians taken prisoner during King Philiph's War and sold slaves in the West Indies. -
Goodwife Golver
Goodwife Glover is executed in Boston for "witchcraft". -
Salem Witch Trials
From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging. -
A mob ransacks Lieutenant governor Thomas Hutchinson's home.
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The Stamp Act
The Sons of Liberty destroy Andrew Oliver's shop on Long Wharf,where they believe he's holding new British revence stamps. -
The death of Christopher Seider
Seider was the son of poor German immigrants, and apparently worked as a household servant for a wealthy widow. On February 22, 1770, he joined a crowd of boys mobbing the house of Ebenezer Richardson located in the North End, Boston. Richardson was a Customs service employee who had tried to disrupt the boys' protest in front of a shop selling goods from Britain. The young crowd, joined by some adults, threw stones which broke Richardson's windows and struck his wife. Richardson tried to scare -
The Boston Massacre
On the night of March 5, 1770 — five men had been shot to death in Boston town by British soldiers. Precipitating the event known as the Boston Massacre was a mob of men and boys taunting a sentry standing guard at the city's customs house. When other British soldiers came to the sentry's support, a free-for-all ensued and shots were fired into the crowd. -
Boston Tea Party
On Monday morning, the 29th of November, 1773, a handbill was posted all over Boston, containing the following words: "Friends! Brethren! Countrymen!--That worst of plagues, the detested tea, shipped for this port by the East India Company, is now arrived in the harbor. -
The Battle Of Lexington and Concord
The first shots starting the revolution were fired at Lexington, Massachusetts. On April 18, 1775, British General Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy guns and ammunition the colonists had stored in the town of Concord, just outside of Boston. They also planned to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock, two of the key leaders of the patriot movement. -
Paul Revere's ride
In the spring of 1775, most of the Massachusetts Patriot leaders had taken refuge in outlying communities, fearing arrest by British officials. Remaining in Boston were two physicians, Benjamin Church and Joseph Warren, the latter serving as the group’s leader in Samuel Adams' absence. Paul Revere, a trusted messenger, also stayed in the city, tended his business interests and as unobtrusively as possible, kept an eye on the soldiers stationed in the city. -
The Battle Of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, only days after George Washington was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. Despite the name, the battle was actually fought on Breed's Hill. -
The Evacuation of the British from Boston
The British evacuation of Boston was a major victory for the patriots, and Washington's first victory. -
Arrival of two regiments of "red coats" on long wharf
