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1770
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March
5
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Boston
Massacre |
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1773
|
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December
13
|
Boston
Tea Party |
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1774
|
|
June
1
|
Boston
Port Act goes into effect; British forces occupy town and
closes port |
|
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1775
|
April
|
April
19
|
Battle
of Concord & Lexington |
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April
20
|
Seige
of Boston Begins |
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May
|
May
15
|
Nathaniel
Ober begins his diary |
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May
25
|
British
reinforcements arrive in Boston including General William
Howe, General John Burgoyne and Lieutenant John Waller of
the 1st Battalion of Marines |
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June
|
June
9
|
Peter
Brown enlists in Colonel William Prescott's regiment |
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June14-17
|
Nathaniel Ober's diary account of the Siege of Boston |
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June
17
|
Battle
of Bunker Hill |
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June18-22
|
Letter
from Abigail to her husband, John Adams |
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June
19
|
Letter
from James Warren to his wife, Mercy Otis Warren |
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June
19
|
Letter
from Joseph Palmer to John Adams |
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June
25
|
Letter
from Peter Brown to his mother, Sarah Brown |
| |
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June
25
|
Copy
of a letter written by Lieutenant John Waller describing the
Battle of Bunker Hill |
| |
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June
25
|
Letter
from Major General John Burgoyne to his nephew, Lord Stanley
(published in London, November 27 |
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June
26
|
Broadside
account of the Battle of Bunker Hill published in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania |
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|
July
3
|
George
Washington takes command of the army besieging Boston |
| |
|
August
25
|
Letter
from Colonel William Prescott to John Adams |
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September
15
|
Nathaniel
Ober's diary ends |
| |
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November
27
|
June
25 letter from Major General John Burgoyne to his nephew,
Lord Stanley published in London. |
|
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1776
|
|
March
17
|
British
evacuate Boston |
| |
|
July
4
|
American
Independence declared in Philadelphia |
|
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1781
|
|
October
18
|
General
Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown |
|
|
1783
|
|
September
13
|
Treaty
of Paris ends the Revolutionary War |
|
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1818
|
|
October
28
|
Abigail
Adams dies in Quincy |
|
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1825
|
|
June
17
|
Cornerstone
laid for the Bunker Hill Monument |
|
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1826
|
|
July
4
|
John
Adams dies in Quincy |
|
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1843
|
|
June
17
|
Ceremonies
to mark the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument |
|
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1846
|
|
March
|
Draft
of letter from John Quincy Adams to Joseph Sturge |
|
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1848
|
|
February
23
|
John
Quincy Adams dies in the United States Capitol while representing
Massachusetts in Congress |
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