The Boston Tea Party was a protest in which colonists, many of them members of the Sons of Liberty, boarded three ships in Boston harbour and threw the cargo of tea into the water. They were angry at the Tea Act, which gave the East India Company a favourable position in the colonial tea trade, and objected to being taxed by a parliament in which they had no representatives. The British government responded with the Coercive Acts, called the Intolerable Acts by the colonists, which closed the port and restricted self-government in Massachusetts. These measures united the colonies and moved them toward the American Revolution.
Before and after
- 9 February 1773Birth of William Henry Harrison
- 15 May 1773Birth of Klemens von Metternich
- 13 June 1773Birth of Thomas Young
- from September 1773 to January 1775Pugachev's Rebellion
- 16 December 1773Boston Tea Party
- 1774Publication of The Sorrows of Young Werther
- 1774Founding of Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory
- 1774Discovery of chlorine
- 1774Discovery of manganese
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