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The Boston Massacre, known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street, [1] was a confrontation, on March 5, 1770, during the American Revolution in Boston in what was then colonial-era Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Boston Gay Men's Chorus [170] and Boston Fair Housing Commission [30] established. Sister city relationship established with Hangzhou, China. Cheers fictional television program begins broadcasting. 1983 Dorchester Reporter begins publication. [171] Boston Community Access and Programming Foundation established. [172] Bayside Expo Center opens.
1768 - Liberty Riot, Boston (anti-impressment and anti-Townshend Acts) 1770 - Boston Massacre, Boston, Massachusetts; 1771 - Battle of Alamance, Last battle of War of the Regulation, May 1771, Alamance, North Carolina; 1772 - Gaspee Affair, Rhode Island; 1772 - Pine Tree Riot, Weare, New Hampshire; 1773 - Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts
A timeline of events related to the Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three people and injured 260 others on April 15, 2013. A federal jury on Wednesday convicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who ...
British victory: British drive American forces from the Charlestown peninsula near Boston but suffer heavy losses [7] Capture of Turtle Bay Depot* July 20, 1775: New York: American victory: Sons of Liberty capture storehouse and magazine [8] Battle of Gloucester: August 8, 1775: Massachusetts: American victory [9] Raid on the Battery: August 23 ...
Albert DeSalvo reportedly raped and killed 13 women as the Boston Strangler. Read ahead for a complete timeline of the Boston Strangler's victims.
February: a crowd of black men in Boston frees fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins, also known as Fred Wilkins, who was being held in the federal courthouse, and helps him escape to Canada. [163] April: The federal government guards fugitive slave Thomas Sims with 300 soldiers to prevent local sympathizers from helping him with an escape attempt. [163]
Robert Treat Paine was born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, in British America, on March 11, 1731. He was one of five children of the Rev. Thomas Paine and Eunice (Treat) Paine. [1] His father was pastor of Franklin Road Baptist Church in Weymouth but moved his