Sons of Liberty formed in New York for fair representation in Parliament.
The first separate black church in America is founded in South Carolina.
Slaves in Massachusetts unsuccessfully petition the government for their freedom.
Phillis Wheatley becomes the first published African-American poet when a London publishing company releases a collection of her verse.
John Bicknell and Thomas Day publish The Dying Negro. The poem drew public attention to the slave trade.
The Tea Act gave the East India Company a trade monopoly on tea imports to American market.
American protesters dumped tea in Boston Harbour -the Boston Tea Party.
Parliament passed Lord North’s East India Company Regulating Act.