Enlightenment · North America · Politics

1770

Boston Massacre

March 5, 1770

A snowbound crowd taunted a British sentry on King Street; a squad reinforced him; someone fired; five civilians died, including the dockworker Crispus Attucks. Paul Revere engraved a lurid print showing the soldiers firing on command. John Adams defended the redcoats in court - and got most of them acquitted.

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Before and after in North America

Before: 1769: First Spanish Mission in Alta California
After: June 10, 1772: Gaspee Affair

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1769: Dahomey at the Height of Its Power
After: 1771: Arkwright's Cromford Mill

Era

Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Boston Massacre