History of Boston

By karen.21

  • Maverick

    Maverick
    Samuel Maverick establishes a fishing outpost on Noddle's Island, now East Boston

  • Blackstone

    Blackstone
    William Blackstone builds his house on a peninsular people call place of clear water

  • Winthrop

    Winthrop
    John Winthrop comes to Boston to create " a city upon a hill".

  • Hutchison

    Hutchison
    Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

  • Dyer

    Dyer
    Mary Dyer was an English Puritan turned Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

  • Philips War

    Philips War
    King Philips was an Indian rebellion against continuing Puritan incursions into Native American lands.

  • Glover

    Glover
    Annie Glover was hanged in Boston amidst mocking shouts from the crowd.

  • Witch Trials

    Witch Trials
    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.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used

  • Hutchinson

    Hutchinson
    The Sons of Liberty ransack the home of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson.

  • British

    British
    Two british regiments arrive in Boston; the siege of the Manufactory House occurs.

  • Seider

    Seider
    Chistopher Seider was killed in a political fight in Boston. His funeral became a major political event, and his killing heightened tensions that erupted into the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770.

  • Boston

    Boston
    The Boston Massacre, called the Boston Riot by the English, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British redcoats killed five civilian men.

  • Tea Party

    Tea Party
    Colonists dumped tea in Boston Harbor, in what becomes known as the Boston Tea Party.

  • Revere

    Revere
    Paul Revere's Ride is a poem by an American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere

  • The Battle

    The Battle
    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War

  • Bunker Hill

    Bunker Hill
    The British seize Breed's Hill after a day of fighting.

  • British Evacuation

    British Evacuation
    The British evacuation of Boston was a major victory for the patriots, and Washington's first victory.