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221 matches to Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party. 1773. Colonials dump tea cargo to protest tax. Led to Intolerable Acts.
Intolerable Acts. 1774. British response to Boston Tea Party, Gaspee burning. Closed Boston Harbor. Established military government. Midwest under Quebec rule...Continental Congress.
Tea Act. 1773. British give British East India Company effective monopoly in North America. Boston Tea Party.
Boston, Siege. 1775-6. US force British to evacuate.
Boston Massacre. 1770. British soldiers kill 5 colonists rioting vs Townshend Acts. A cause of the American Revolution.
Faneuil Hall. 1742-. Boston “cradle of American liberty”.
Liberty Affair. 1768. British sieze Hancock’s sloop ’Liberty’ smuggling wine to Boston.
Newspapers.1566 Venice (first). 1594 Mercurius Gallobelgious England. 1621 Batter England. 1662 First censorship. 1690 Boston. 1702 Daily Courant, first daily.
Anthony of Padua, St. 1195-1231. Franciscan teacher in S. France, Italy.
Barabbas. Thief freed by crowd instead of Jesus.
Bateau-Lavoir. 1900. Paris birthplace of cubism (Picasso, Braque) and modern poetry (Jacob, Apollinaire, Orlan). Desmoiselles d’Avignon.
Battenberg. Family name anglicized to Mountbatten.
Beatrice. c1265-90. Florentine woman immortalized by Dante.
Blackbeard (Edward Teach). -1718. English pirate in West Indies.
Blake, William. 1757-1827. English mystical poet and engraver of his own books. Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1790-3. Job 1821. Dante’s Divine Comedy 1825.
Blood, Thomas. 1628-80. Attempted to steal British crown jewels 1671.
Braithwaite. 1829. First steam fire engine.
Bronte, Anne. 1820-49. English novelist. Agnes Grey 1847. Sister of Charlotte, Emily.
Brunel, Isambard. 1806-59. British inventor of transatlantic steamship, 1838; screw propeller, 1845.
Calmette, Albert. 1863-1933. French discoverer of TB vaccine.
Cateau-Cambresis, Treaty. 1559. Ended Italian Wars. Italy, Savoy to Spain. Calais to France.
Château Clique. Small merchant group dominated government of Lower Canada to 1830s.
Chateaubriand. 1768-1848. French Romantic writer: d’Atala 1801. Memoirs d’outre-tombe.
Cherokee. Indian tribe removed 1838-9 to Oklahoma. Trail of Tears.
Chile. Inca/Araucanian. 1520 Magellan discovers. 1540 Spain. 1818 Independent. 1884 +War of Pacific. O’Higgins. Pinochet.