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1631 Feb 5 Roger Williams Arrives In Boston
Roger Williams, defender of religious liberty and founder of Rhode Island, arrived in Boston on February 5, 1631. Born in England just after the turn of the seventeenth century, Williams...
1734 Dec Paul Revere Is Born
Revere was likely born in very late December, 1734, in Boston's North End, the son of a French Huguenot father and a Boston mother. Revere had numerous siblings with whom he appears to ha...
1760 Paul Revere Joins 'The Sons Of Liberty'
In Boston in early summer of 1765 a group of shopkeepers and artisans who called themselves The Loyal Nine, began preparing for agitation against the Stamp Act. As that group grew, it cam...
1770 Paul Revere Purchases His North End Home
As is typical of early Massachusetts Bay timber construction, the main block of the three-story dwelling consisted of four structural bays demarcated by heavy framing posts and overhead b...
1770 Mar 5 Boston Massacre
American opposition to the British authorities kept steadily rising as assemblies were dissolved, the houses of citizens searched, and troops distributed in increasing numbers among the c...
1773 Dec 16 Boston Tea Party
On Tuesday last the body of the people of this and all the adjacent towns, and others from the distance of twenty miles, assembled at the old south meeting-house, to inquire the reason of...
1774 Paul Revere Becomes A Member of The First Patriot Intelligence Network, 'The Mechanics'
The first Patriot intelligence network on record was a secret group in Boston known as the "mechanics." The group apparently grew out of the old Sons of Liberty organization that had succ...
1774 Paul Revere Contributes Engravings to the 'Royal American Magazine'
The Royal American Magazine, or Universal Repository of Instruction and Amusement (January 1774 - March 1775) was a short-lived monthly periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts by Is...
1774 Mar 31 Boston Port Act
The Boston Port Act is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (citation 14 Geo. III. c. 19) which became law on March 30, 1774, and is one of the measures (variously called the Intoler...
1775 Apr 18 The Midnight Ride Of Paul Revere
The role for which he is most remembered today was as a night-time messenger on horseback just before the battles of Lexington and Concord. His famous "Midnight Ride" occurred on the nigh...
1775 Apr 19
to 1776 Mar 17
 Siege of Boston
In the immediate aftermath of the battles of the 19th, the Massachusetts militia, under the loose leadership of William Heath, who was superseded by General Artemas Ward late on the 20th,...
1776 Mar 17 Evacuation Day
The 11-month siege of Boston ended when the Continental Army, under the command of George Washington, fortified Dorchester Heights in early March 1776 with cannons captured at Ticonderoga...
1787 Paul Revere Opens Bell Foundry In Boston
Though best-known for his "midnight" ride and his work in silver and gold, several of Revere's most significant accomplishments came later in his life. Eager to begin manufacturing other ...
1818 May 10 Paul Revere Dies
Revere died on May 10, 1818, at the age of 83, at his home on Charter Street in Boston. He is buried in the Old Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street. Paul Revere appears on the $5,00...
1878 Sep 1 Emma Mills Nutt Becomes the World's First Female Telephone Operator
When the first commercial telephone exchange began service in January 1878, teenage boys were hired as the first operators. However, the young men often played pranks on each other and th...
1892 Sep 8 The Pledge of Allegiance is First Published in 'The Youth's Companion' Magazine
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy (1855-1931), a Baptist minister, a Christian socialist, and the cousin of socialist utopian novelist Edward Bellamy (1850-1...
1905 Apr 17
to 1905 Apr 22
 Blind Tom Wiggins performs publicly for last time
Prof. Southall reports that Tom's last public appearances appear to have been those of April 17-22, 1905 in Boston. She adds that the Boston Evening Transcript left no doubt in its subse...
1916 Nov 7 Fort Point Channel Accident
On November 7, 1916, double truck box car No. 393, controlled by hand brakes and having a seating capacity for 34 passengers, left P street barn, North Point, South Boston, at about 5:13 ...
1919 Jan 15 Molasses Disaster in Boston's North End
The Boston Molasses Disaster, also known as the Great Molasses Flood and the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachu...
1932 Feb 22 Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy is born in Boston
Kennedy was born at St. Margaret's Hospital in the Dorchester section of Boston, Massachusetts, the youngest of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald, who were both ...
1942 Nov 28 Fire at Cocoanut Grove Nightclub kills 492 people
The Cocoanut Grove was a nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. On November 28, 1942, the fashionable nightclub burned in what remains the deadliest nightclub fire in United S...
1960 Oct 4 Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 Crashes
Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, registration N5533, was a Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft that crashed on takeoff from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts on October 4, 196...
1974 Mar 1 Aerosmith releases Get Your Wings
Get Your Wings is the second studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released March 1, 1974. The album is the first to feature production from Jack Douglas, who would go on to ...
1975 Apr 8 Aerosmith releases Toys in the Attic
Toys in the Attic is the third album by American hard rock band Aerosmith. The album is their second most commercially successful studio album right behind Get a Grip with eight million c...
1982 Aug 1 Aerosmith releases Rock in a Hard Place
Rock in a Hard Place is the seventh studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith and was released in 1982. This is the only Aerosmith album to not feature Joe Perry. Perry had left i...
1985 Oct 21 Aerosmith releases Done with Mirrors
Done with Mirrors is the eighth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith and marked the return of Joe Perry and Brad Whitford to the fold. It was also their first album released ...
1985 Dec 10 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
It is in this connection that this year's Peace Prize laureate, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, has, in the opinion of the Nobel Committee, made a commenda...
1989 Sep 12 Aerosmith releases Pump
Pump is the tenth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1989. The album was remastered and reissued in 2001. Pump was widely acclaimed by both fans and critics up...
1993 Apr 20 Aerosmith releases Get a Grip
Get a Grip is the eleventh studio album by American Rock band Aerosmith, released in 1993. It was the band's last studio album released by Geffen Records. Get a Grip contains five hit ...
1997 Mar 18 Aerosmith releases Nine Lives
Nine Lives is the twelfth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1997. The album was produced by Aerosmith and Kevin Shirley, and was the band's first studio album...
2001 Mar 6 Aerosmith releases Just Push Play
Just Push Play is the thirteenth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 2001 (see 2001 in music). Helping Aerosmith in the studio were coproducers and song collabo...
2004 Mar 30 Aerosmith releases Honkin' on Bobo
Honkin' on Bobo is the fourteenth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 2004 (see 2004 in music). The album includes eleven covers and one original track titled "...
2007 Jan 31 Adult Swim's Marketing Causes the 2007 Boston Bomb Scare
On January 31, 2007, a bomb scare occurred when police officers mistakenly identified small electronic devices found throughout Boston and the surrounding cities of Cambridge and Somervil...
2007 Jun 9 2007 Boston Gay Pride Parade
Boston – The City of Boston has approved Boston Pride’s proposal for a new parade route in 2007. The 2007 parade, scheduled for Saturday, June 9, will stage on Tremont Street in the South...
2008 Mar 16 Boston St Patrick's Day Parade 2008
The first ever St Patrick's Day celebration in America happened in 1737 in Boston, and the city still boasts one of the USA's biggest St Patrick's Day parties. The annual parade begins...
2008 Mar 21
to 2008 Mar 23
 Anime Boston 2008
Anime Boston invaded Beantown's Hynes Convention Center over Easter weekend, and just like Christians flocking to midnight mass, anime fans from all over the East Coast made their yearly ...
2008 Apr 21 Boston Marathon
2008 Top Women Finishers 1. Dire Tune ETH 2:25:25 2. Alevtina Biktimirova RUS 2:25:27 3. Rita Jeptoo KEN 2:26:34 4. Jelena Prokopcuka LAT 2:28:12 5. Askale Tafa Mag...
2008 Jun 10 Scooper Bowl 2008
The Jimmy Fund Scooper Bowl is the nation's largest all-you-can-eat ice cream festival. The event serves up ice cream from nine of the nation's leading ice cream companies while raising m...
2008 Jun 14 2008 Boston Gay Pride Parade
Bostonist was among the throng that lined Charles Street all day Saturday for Boston Pride's annual parade. We saw a lot of feathers, leather, strollers, recycling, parasols, Crocs, and p...
2008 Jul 1
to 2008 Jul 6
 Harborfest 2008
If you want to celebrate Independence Day in proper patriotic style, head for Boston. The annual Boston Harborfest is a multi-day Fourth of July celebration featuring hundreds of events t...
2008 Aug 14
to 2008 Aug 17
 Fisherman's Feast 2008
The Fisherman's Feast is an annual event that began in Boston in 1911 and is based on a tradition that goes back to the 16th century in Sciacca Sicily. The Feast is based on the devotion...
2008 Aug 29
to 2008 Aug 31
 Feast of St Anthony 2008
Since that time, the people of the North End and Massachusetts, like people around the world, celebrate the feast of St. Anthony just as they do each year in the last week of August, in M...
2008 Oct 18
to 2008 Oct 19
 Head of the Charles 2008
The Head of the Charles Regatta is the world's largest two-day rowing event. First held on October 16, 1965, the Head of the Charles Regatta is similar to races held in England. In rowing...
2009 Feb 1 Celebrating Chinese New Year in Boston
Boston’s Chinese community is getting ox-cited for Chinese New Year, which starts tomorrow. Celebrations for the Year of the Ox will be held in Chinatown next Sunday, with a lion dance...
2009 Apr 20 Boston Marathon
Ethiopia's Deriba Merga overcame the disappointment of his Olympic fade to win the Boston Marathon on Monday, and Kenya's Salina Kosgei won the closest women's race in the history of the ...
2009 Jun 13
12:00PM
 2009 Boston Gay Pride Parade
In defiance of Boston’s meteorologists, the weather for the 2009 Boston Gay Pride Parade dawned bright and warm; and after a week of soggy weather, the Boston gay community was in a party...