American colonists protested British taxation by boarding ships in Boston Harbor and dumping 342 chests of tea into the water, an event known as the Boston Tea Party. This act of defiance against the ...

July 1: Cherokee attack the southern frontier. July 4: Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence. It’s worth noting that two other branches of the military will turn 250 this year as well. The ...

“The Revolution on Cape Cod and the Islands: Issues, Events, and People” focuses on events that took place across the Cape and Islands, from about 1761 and the early signs of rebellion to the ...

MARCH 25, 1774 Boston Port Act — Start of the Intolerable Acts. In the wake of the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament closed the port of Boston to ships with its passage of the Boston Port ...

The route from Boston to Washington D.C. is historical in nature as you may pass through some of the most important sites in ...

The Empress of China returned from China on May 11, 1785. She carried 800 chests of tea, 20,000 pairs of nankeen trousers (cotton garments from Nanjing), cinnamon, and roughly 64 tons of porcelain, ...

The United States Army celebrated its 250th birthday on June 14, 2025, although stating that the “U.S. Army” is 250 years old is more complicated. The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia ...

Modern movements cling to the Boston Tea Party as an anti-government emblem, but they target the symptom (government) and ignore the disease.

The USNS Harvey Milk is being renamed the USNS Oscar V. Peterson in honor of a Navy chief watertender who died in World War ...