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1773

• Parliament passes the Tea Act (in May), which further inflames the American colonists
• Phillis Wheatley publishes Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston
• The Boston Tea Party occurs (December 16)