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Jonadab (right) with Amnon in a woodcut by Heinrich Aldegrever, 1540.. Jonadab is a figure in the Hebrew Bible, appearing in 2 Samuel 13. He is described in verse 3 as the son of Shimeah, who was the brother of David, making Jonadab a cousin to Amnon as well as his friend.
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. [2] The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts.
A retrospect of the Boston tea-party, with a memoir of George R. T. Hewes, a survivor of the little band of patriots who drowned the tea in Boston harbour in 1773 at the Internet Archive; Traits of the tea party : being a memoir of George R.T. Hewes, one of the last of its survivors at the Internet Archive
December 16: American protesters stage "Boston Tea Party". 1773 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1773rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 773rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1770s decade.
The Philadelphia Tea Party was an incident in late December 1773, shortly after the more famous Boston Tea Party, [1] in which a British tea ship was intercepted by American colonists and forced to return its cargo to Great Britain.
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A Grammar of the Hebrew Language, London, 1773. An edition of the Bible with notes, 1773. An edition of the Old Testament with notes, 1774. The Commandments of God in Nature, Institution, and Revelation, London, 1778. Remarks on Mr. David Levi's Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to the Jews, (under the pseudonym of Antisocinus).
On December 16, 1773, when a tea ship of the East India Company was planning to land taxed tea in Boston, a group of local men known as the Sons of Liberty sneaked onto the boat the night before it was to be unloaded and dumped all the tea into the harbor, an act known as the Boston Tea Party.