Boston Tea Party - 16th December 1773

Boston Tea Party - 16th December 1773

Posted by grahame at 08:15, 16th December 2025

We could serve tea as well as coffee ...

On this day, 16th December 1773, the "Boston Tea Party" was held - from Britannica

On this day in 1773, a group of men dressed in Mohawk headdresses and cheered by a crowd of thousands threw tea belonging to the British East India Company into Boston Harbor. Britain's punitive response to the Boston Tea Party, which was a protest against taxes, helped push American colonists closer to war.

Only tangentially related to transport, but our "On this day" otherwise suggested "no events reported" ...

I was thinking, for 2026 ... oh, never mind ... we still have a couple of weeks to plan and get ideas together. And our coffee shop seems much more civilised that their tea party if reports from the time are to be believed.

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