The Handy Boston Answer Book. Samuel Willard Crompton

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1763 French and Indian War ends with Peace of Paris 1765 George III and Parliament place the Stamp Act on American colonies 1766 Stamp Act revoked 1767 Townshend Acts places on American colonies 1768 First British troops arrive in Boston 1769 Tensions between troops and townspeople 1770 Boston Massacre takes place on March 5 British soldiers are tried in November 1772 HMS Gaspee taken and burned in Rhode Island 1773 Parliament passes the Tea Act Bostonians carry out the Tea Party 1774 Parliament passes the Coercive Acts; General Gage comes to Boston 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19 Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17 Washington takes command on July 3 Benedict Arnold leaves for Canada on September 10 1776 Henry Knox brings cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to Cambridge Washington seizes Dorchester Heights, on March 5 British evacuate Boston on March 17 1780 The Massachusetts state constitution is written and approved 1781 French fleet comes to Boston 1786 First bridge over the Charles River is completed 1789 John Adams of Quincy is elected the first vice president of the United States 1790 Population of Boston is 18,038 1796 John Adams is elected the second president of the United States 1798 USS Constitution is launched in Boston Harbor 1800 President John Adams fails of reelection and returns to Braintree 1806 First African American church founded on Joy Street near the State House 1812 Massachusetts Governor Caleb Strong opposes the War of 1812 USS Constitution meets and defeats HMS Guerriere 1815 Boston cheers the end of the War of 1812 Boston is attacked by the Gale of September 1815 1817 President James Monroe visits Boston, inaugurating the Era of Good Feelings 1821 Two dams are constructed, sectioning off much of what later became the “Back Bay” 1822 Boston incorporated as a city 1824 John Quincy Adams becomes the sixth president of the United States 1826 Lafayette comes to town for the dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument John Adams and his longtime rival, Thomas Jefferson, die on the same day, July 4 1828 John Quincy Adams fails to get reelected; he returns home to Braintree 1831 William Lloyd Garrison brings out the first issue of The Liberator 1834 The Ursuline convent in Charlestown is burned by a mob 1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers “The American Scholar” speech at Harvard Commencement 1860 John Albion Andrews elected governor of Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1861 The Civil War finds John Albion Andrews as governor of Massachusetts Many Harvard men enlist in the Union Army M.I.T. receives its charter from the Massachusetts Great and General Court 1863 Two African American regiments are recruited in and around Boston The Massachusetts 54th Regiment makes a valiant attempt to capture Battery Wagner, South Carolina 1867 The Boston Conservatory of Music and the New England Conservatory are both formed 1869 Charles W. Eliot, son of Mayor Samuel A. Eliot, becomes president of Harvard 1870 The Peace Jubilee is held in Boston 1872 Boston experiences the worst of all its “Great Fires” with sixty-four acres of buildings destroyed 1874 Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts lauds Boston’s many accomplishments 1875 Report of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor presents a very different picture of life in Boston 1881 Boston Symphony Orchestra is formed 1885 The Boston Pops delivers its first performance 1886 Henry James novel The Bostonians is published in book form (it was previously a serial) 1897 The Boston Marathon is run for the first time 1900 Population of Boston is 560,892; population of United States is 76,212,168 1903 Boston Americans win the first World Series 1910 Charles W. Eliot steps down from Harvard presidency 1912 Fenway Park opens in April 1914 James Michael Curley is elected Mayor of Boston for the first time 1916

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