Category: Boston Events Calendar

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Taxes were placed on paint, oil, lead, paper, tea, and glass by the British in the Townshend Revenue Act. The colonists were very angry and created their own non-importation agreements to make British trade diminish.

The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775. American troops entrenched themselves on Bunker Hill overlooking the city of Boston. At Bunker Hill, you can see the ships coming into Boston Harbor.

On June 2, 1774, the Quartering Act was passed by Parliament to make sure that the British troops could be housed in the colonists’ inns, barns, uninhabited houses, and more in the Colonies if there weren’t enough army barracks.

In 1840, almost a soon as photography arrived in America, the MHS began to collect images of notable figures, artifacts, and landscapes recorded with “the pencil of nature.” Examples of these early photographs will be on display 11 March to 3 June in the Society’s exhibition, History Drawn with Light. View one of Boston’s oldest […]

On May 20, 1774, the Massachusetts Government Act was passed by British Parliament to improve government regulations of the province of Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Patriots considered this one of the Intolerable Acts, for it was designed to control behavior, suppress the Patriots, remove their ability to appoint members to the Massachusetts Bay executive council, […]

The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and […]

On December 16th, 1773, Frances Rotch returned from a meeting with then Governor Hutchinson to report that the governor would not allow the “tea ships” to leave Boston Harbor. At that moment, Sam Adams stood at the pulpit and said, “This meeting can do nothing more to save the country.” This was the signal to […]

If you take a look at our website and go to the Leon Poindexter webcast you will see we are making excellent progress in restoring both the Eleanor and the Beaver. Both these ships will be ready to be brought on site in Fort Point Channel on November 1st. You can, of course, watch the […]

We’ve chosen April 19th, 2011, as the opportunity for our official “water breaking” ceremony signifying the beginning of construction on the new Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum. We have chosen April 19th because it was on this same date 236 years ago that the shot was fired at Lexington Green which was the beginning […]