1773 in History

1st person to cross the Antarctic circle

A mass meeting passes a resolution, introduced by Adams, urging the captain of Dartmouth to send the ship back without paying import duty

When the tea ship Dartmouthr arrives in Boston Samuel Adams calls for a mass meeting to be held at Faneuil Hall

After a meeting held by Adams demonstrators board three vessels and dump all 342 chests of tea into the water

Argues the Tea Party was not the act of a lawless mob, but was instead a principled protest and the only remaining option the people had to defend their constitutional rights

Whether or not Samuel Adams helped plan the Boston Tea Party is disputed, but he immediately worked to publicize and defend it

Aimed Tea Act of 1773, which allowed the British East India company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes

Colonists object to the Tea Act because they believe it violates their rights to "no taxation without representation"

Demonstrators destroy an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company

The Boston Tea Party is a protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston

The British Government responds harshly and the episode escalates into the American Revolution

Governor Hutchinson refuses to grant permission for the Dartmouth to leave Boston without paying tea duty

Governor Thomas Hutchinson had been urging London to take a hard line with the Sons of Liberty

Colonists object to the Tea Act because they believe it violates their rights to "no taxation without representation"

Benjamin Rush urges his fellow countrymen to oppose the landing of the tea, because the cargo contained "the seeds of slavery

Adams refers to the idea that all Governments have a constitution, written or not, and that the constitution of Great Britain could be interpreted as banning the levying of taxes without representation

Argues the Tea Party was not the act of a lawless mob, but was instead a principled protest and the only remaining option the people had to defend their constitutional rights

First recorded crossing of the Antarctic Circle during Cook's second voyage

The 2nd cousin of President John Adams is the chief instigator of the Boston tea party. A protest against the British tea tax imposed on Colonialists in Massachusetts

Merchants board a boycotted ship to hold a tea Party & throw its tea overboard

Holds a tea party & throws tea overboard, followed by other American ports. Causes the British Parliament to place Boston under military rule

1st tea ship is boycotted in Boston by the British

Defeats a Turkish assault on Hirsov

The Boston Tea Party is a protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston

Governor Thomas Hutchinson had been urging London to take a hard line with the Sons of Liberty

Birth of Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich