Frederick North Guildford, 2nd16 December 1773
Merchants board a boycotted ship to hold a tea Party & throw its tea overboard
Great Britain · Government / Whig Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Merchants board a boycotted ship to hold a tea Party & throw its tea overboard
Closes Boston harbour until the East India Company is reimbursed for lost tea
This factsheet is generated from stored World History Database records matching the country, broad category, detailed category and exact Event value shown above. Duplicate display records are collapsed; database wording is otherwise preserved. Source provenance varies by record, so formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.