The Boston Tea Party, a protest against punitive British taxes that led directly to open hostilities in the American Revolution 16 months later, unfolded on this day in history, Dec. 16, 1773.

American colonists protested British taxation by boarding ships in Boston Harbor and dumping 342 chests of tea into the water ...

America is today marking the 250th anniversary of one of its most defining moments in history: The Boston Tea Party. The protest on 16 December 1773 - named for the city where it took place and ...

In December 1773, political activists known as the Sons of Liberty took to Boston Harbor to dump more than 90,000 pounds of ...

The date of the Boston Tea Party—December 16, 1773—didn’t have a particular significance. It was simply a question of time. The rules were that a ship had to be unloaded within 20 days after ...

On the evening of December 16, 1773, 250 years ago today, New England colonists disguised as Native Americans calmly boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea overboard.

When was the Boston Tea Party? The protest took place on December 16, 1773 — nearly 251 years ago. On that day, the Sons of Liberty dressed as indigenous people and boarded three ships of cargo ...

On This Day: Boston Tea Party. On December 16, 1773 thousands of Massachusetts colonists gathered at Old South Meeting House in Boston to discuss a shipment of tea that had recently arrived in ...

This political protest took place at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston on December 16, 1773, ... Faneuil Hall & The Boston Tea Party: A Protest in Principle takes place on December 16 from 4 to 5:30 p.m.

The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773 as an act of defiance after the passing of the Tea Act by the British parliament granting the East India Trading Company a monopoly on Tea ...

Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum tells the tale of the infamous tea dumping. Enjoy a cup of tea in Abigail’s Tearoom. The protest took place on December 16, 1773 — nearly 251 years ago.