Boston Massacre

When

5 Mar 1770

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

5

Coordinates

42.36° N, 71.06° W

Description

Incident on March 5, 1770

1770 shooting deaths of five colonists by British soldiers

The Boston Massacre, known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in the prelude to the American Revolution in Boston, in what was then the colony of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

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• Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Boston Massacre: Eleven American men are shot (five fatally) by British troops, in an event that helps start the American Revolutionary War five years later”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Massaker von Boston werden bei einer Straßenschlacht fünf Zivilisten durch eine provozierte britische Bewachungseinheit getötet, unter ihnen der…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “massacre de Boston”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “«Бостонская бойня»: расстрел английскими солдатами толпы жителей во время беспорядков, в результате чего были убиты 5 человек (либо 6 рабочих убито и 6 ранено)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en EE.UU., soldados británicos asesinan a cinco estadounidenses en la Masacre de Boston, que 5 años más tarde desencadenará la guerra de Independencia de…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “波士頓屠殺發生，埋下日後美國獨立戰爭的種子”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ボストン虐殺事件：英軍の発砲で市民5人が死亡し、反英世論が急速に高揚。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page