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  • December 16, 1773: The Most Famous ‘Tea Party’ Of Them All

    12/16/2025 9:46:08 AM PST · by T.B. Yoits · 12 replies
    This Day of History ^ | 12/15/2025 | Staff
    The most famous ‘tea party’ ever took place on the evening of December 16, 1773, in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. The Sons of Liberty, led by Samuel Adams, writes The History Channel, rallied “against British Parliament and protested the Griffin’s Wharf arrival of Dartmouth, a British East India Company ship carrying tea. By December 16, 1773, Dartmouth had been joined by her sister ships, Beaver and Eleanor; all three ships loaded with tea from China. That morning, as thousands of colonists convened at the wharf and its surrounding streets, a meeting was held at the Old South Meeting House where a...