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			1661 English Quaker William Leddra hanged in Boston.
1671 Katherine Naylor, the wife of a Boston merchant, sues for divorce.
			1704 Deerfield Massacre
1706 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston
			1768 British troops arrive in Boston
1770 Boston Massacre
			1770 Copley paints Paul Revere
1770 Paul Revere engraves the events in King Street.
			1773 Boston "Tea Party"
1773 Massachusetts slaves begin petitioning for freedom
			1776 British evacuate Boston
1783 Boston establishes annual July 4 oration
			1806 Black Baptists build a meeting house on Beacon Hill in Boston
1829 David Walker, An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
			1834 James Hawkes, A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, with a Memoir of George R.T. hewes"
1835 George Robert Twelves Hewes feted in Providence and Boston
			1835 Seaman's Aid Society establishes a "Mariner's Home" in Boston
1855 William C. Nell, "Colored Patriots of the American Revolution"
			1858 Black seamen parade in Boston and Providence to celebrate West Indian independence.
1858 Crispus Attucks Day celebrated at African Meeting House
			1868 Deerfield first exhibits door from "Indian House"
1870 Boston Museum of Fine Arts founded
			1870 First transcontinental train leaves Boston on a 39-day journey across the United States
1870 Most female wage workers are employed in factories or as household servants.
			1873 Anne Whitney wins competition to create a sculpture of Samuel Adams for the United States Capitol.
1878 Old Ironsides takes last Atlantic voyage.
			1879 The Boston Antiquarian Club rescues the Old State House
1881 Controversy over John G. Whittier's "The King's Missive"
			1885 Boston proposes a statue of Paul Revere
1885 After moving to Prout's Neck, Maine, Winslow Homer turned to the drama of seafaring.
			1887 Mass. Historical Society protests Boston Massacre monument
1895 Eliza Philbrick creates a "Colonial Gown" for a DAR party in Boston
			1897 Boston Society of Arts and Crafts Founded
1910 John F. Fitzgerald mayor of Boston
			1912 Robert Frost, "North of Boston"
1972 Harvard dedicates the so-called "Bradstreet Gate" between the Science Center and the Yard.
			1974 Judge Garrity orders school busing in Boston
1987 Archaeologists begin excavating historic sites threatened by Boston's Big Dig.
			2001 Boston Massacre Memorial included on a new Irish Heritage Trail.
2003 Boston Women's Memorial features Phillis Wheatley, Abigail Adams, and Lucy Stone