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Events in Boston History
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Built a trading post at Noodle Island
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Built his house on a peninsular people call place of clear waters.
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Came to Boston to create "a city upon a hill."
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She was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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She is led to execution on Boston Common for her Quaker faith
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An armed conflict between the Native Americans and New England.
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Is executed in Boston for "witchcraft".
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Between this time period over 200 people were accused of praticing witch craft. 20 of these people were executed.
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A mob ransacks Lieutenant Thomas Hutchinson's home.
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Passed by British Parliament. the new tax was imposed on alll american colonist and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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Arrival of two regiments of "Red Coats" on Long Wharf.
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The Boston Massacre was an event that happened in which British redcoats killed five civilian men. Without orders, they fired into the crowd, and killed three people with wounding others. Two of the people who were wounded ended up dieing.
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A boy who was killed during a political fight in Boston that happened on Febuary 22, 1770. His funeral ended becoming a major politcal event. His death also made tensions higher that erupted into the Boston Massacre.
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When Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonist boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into the Boston Harbor. British were against the tea act, and it still is an ironic event on out history.
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Paul Revere was an AMerican silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. He warned Sam Adams and John Handcock that the British were after them. He also made a famous poem called "Midnight Ride".
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This battle took place at the Charlestown peninsula on the North side of Boston Harbor. It was with the British troops of the Boston garrison against the trrops of the American Contential Army. The army for the British troops were ,400 and 1,500 American troops.
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The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.It took place in Middlesex County of MAssachusetts Bay, near Conrd, Lincoln, and Lexington. This battle marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of great Britain and it's thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America.
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The British boarded their ships and evacuated from the city of Boston.