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Boston Massacre

The Boston Massacre, known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in the prelude to the American Revolution in Boston, in what was then the colony of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre · Engrav'd Printed & Sold by Paul Revere Boston. The print was copied by Revere from a design by Henry Pelham for an engraving eventually published under the title "The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or the Bloody Massacre," of which only two impressions could be located by Brigham. Revere's print appeared on or about March 28, 1770., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
5 Mar 1770
Where
Boston
Era
Early Modern

Topics

United States1585 – today

Before and after

Battle of Larga1770Revolution of 17721772Show on timeline

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