Queen Anne’s War begins
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1708
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A list of Boston street names appears for the first time
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1711
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British fail to conquer Québec City
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1713
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Queen Anne’s War comes to an end
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1721
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Boston suffers a terrible epidemic of smallpox
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1722
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First map of Boston streets (the so-called Burgis Map) is printed
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1723
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Benjamin Franklin runs from home, settles in Philadelphia
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1739
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Reverend George Whitefield comes to Boston for the first time
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1740
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Generally believed to be the coldest winter of the eighteenth century
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1744
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King George’s War begins
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1745
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New Englanders capture Fortress Louisburg
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1747
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Knowles Riots in Boston
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1748
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Britain returns Louisburg to France
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1754
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George Washington starts the French and Indian War
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1755
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Boston suffers a powerful earthquake
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1759
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Québec City falls to the British
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1760
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Montréal falls to the British. King George II dies and is succeeded by his grandson
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1763
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French and Indian War ends with Peace of Paris
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1765
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George III and Parliament place the Stamp Act on American colonies
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1766
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Stamp Act revoked
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1767
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Townshend Acts places on American colonies
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1768
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First British troops arrive in Boston
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1769
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Tensions between troops and townspeople
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1770
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Boston Massacre takes place on March 5
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British soldiers are tried in November
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1772
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HMS Gaspee taken and burned in Rhode Island
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1773
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Parliament passes the Tea Act
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Bostonians carry out the Tea Party
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1774
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Parliament passes the Coercive Acts; General Gage comes to Boston
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1775
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Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19
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Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17
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Washington takes command on July 3
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Benedict Arnold leaves for Canada on September 10
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1776
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Henry Knox brings cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to Cambridge
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Washington seizes Dorchester Heights, on March 5
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British evacuate Boston on March 17
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1780
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The Massachusetts state constitution is written and approved
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1781
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French fleet comes to Boston
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1786
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First bridge over the Charles River is completed
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1789
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John Adams of Quincy is elected the first vice president of the United States
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1790
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Population of Boston is 18,038
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1796
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John Adams is elected the second president of the United States
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1798
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USS Constitution is launched in Boston Harbor
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1800
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President John Adams fails of reelection and returns to Braintree
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1806
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First African American church founded on Joy Street near the State House
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1812
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Massachusetts Governor Caleb Strong opposes the War of 1812
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USS Constitution meets and defeats HMS Guerriere
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1815
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Boston cheers the end of the War of 1812
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Boston is attacked by the Gale of September 1815
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1817
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President James Monroe visits Boston, inaugurating the Era of Good Feelings
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1821
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Two dams are constructed, sectioning off much of what later became the “Back Bay”
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1822
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Boston incorporated as a city
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1824
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John Quincy Adams becomes the sixth president of the United States
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1826
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Lafayette comes to town for the dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument
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John Adams and his longtime rival, Thomas Jefferson, die on the same day, July 4
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1828
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John Quincy Adams fails to get reelected; he returns home to Braintree
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1831
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William Lloyd Garrison brings out the first issue of The Liberator
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1834
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The Ursuline convent in Charlestown is burned by a mob
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1837
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Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers “The American Scholar” speech at Harvard Commencement
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1860
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John Albion Andrews elected governor of Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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1861
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The Civil War finds John Albion Andrews as governor of Massachusetts
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Many Harvard men enlist in the Union Army
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M.I.T. receives its charter from the Massachusetts Great and General Court
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1863
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Two African American regiments are recruited in and around Boston
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The Massachusetts 54th Regiment makes a valiant attempt to capture Battery Wagner, South Carolina
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1867
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