The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts. A group of colonists, disguised as Mohawk Indians, boarded three British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. The protest was in response to the Tea Act of 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies, bypassing the traditional colonial merchants. The Tea Party was a major event in the lead-up to the American Revolution.
The most remarkable Norman adventurer from the Duchy of Normandy. He will conquer southern Italy and begin that of Sicily with his younger brother Roger de Hauteville. He is the father of Bohémond de Tarente.
Brazilian writer, Maria Firmina dos Reis (1825 – 1917) opposes slavery in her novel Úrsula, which focuses on describing the harsh living conditions of black slaves in Brazil. Slavery in Brazil Maria Firmina dos Reis was born on October 11, 1825, in São Luís, in Maranhão, in the northeast of th
Jacques de Molay is the last Grand Master of the Templars. He is more of a soldier than a politician, which will not be without consequences in the fall of the Order. Clumsily, the Templars will display their wealth, while they will be reproached for not having been able to keep the Holy Land, by in
Virgil was born in Padua (northern Italy) and studied Latin, Greek, rhetoric and philosophy between the cities of Cremona, Milan, Rome and Naples where he spent most of his time. A powerful Roman, Maecenas, supports him financially, so Virgil can devote himself to writing. He writes the Bucoliques ,