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Timeline of Boston#1950s.E2.80.931970s

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This article is a timeline of the history of the city of Boston, Massachusetts, US.

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17th century

  • 1625 – William Blaxton arrives.
  • 1630 - When Boston was founded
  • English Puritans arrive.
  • First Church in Boston established.
  • September 7 (old style): Boston named.
  • 1631 – Boston Watch (police) established.
  • 1632 – Settlement becomes capital of the English Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  • 1634
  • Boston Common established.{{sfn|Whitehill|2000}}
  • Samuel Cole opened the first tavern in Boston, Massachusetts on March 4.[http://www.timelines.ws/states/MASSACHUSET.HTML]
  • 1635 – Boston Latin School founded.{{cite web |url=http://www.bpl.org/research/special/collections.htm |title=Special Collections Descriptions |publisher=Boston Public Library |access-date=July 16, 2013}}
  • 1636 – Town assumes the prerogatives of appointment and control of the Boston Watch.
  • 1637 – Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts founded.
  • 1638
  • Desiré slave ship arrives.{{sfn|Appiah|1999}}
  • Anne Hutchinson excommunicated.
  • 1644 – "Slaving expedition" departs for Africa.{{cite book|editor=Toyin Falola and Amanda Warnock |title=Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage |year= 2007|publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0-313-33480-1 |chapter=Chronology |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UjRYKePKrB8C&pg=PR29}}
  • 1648 – Margaret Jones hanged as a witch.{{sfn|Bradford|1843}}
  • 1649 – Second Church established.
  • 1652 – John Hull and Robert Sanderson begin producing Massachusetts colonial coinage
  • 1656 – Ann Hibbins hanged as a witch.
  • 1657 – Scots Charitable Society of Boston founded.
  • 1658 – Town-House built.
  • 1660
  • June 1: Mary Dyer hanged as a Quaker.
  • Copp's Hill Burying Ground and Granary Burying Ground established.{{sfn|Whitehill|2000}}
  • 1669 – Third Church built.{{sfn|Whitehill|2000}}
  • 1679
  • Province House and Baptist church built.{{sfn|Whitehill|2000}}
  • Fire.{{sfn|Bridenbaugh|1971}}
  • 1680 – Paul Revere House built (approximate date).
  • 1688 – King's Chapel built.
  • 1689 – The Boston Revolt results in the overthrow of Sir Edmund Andros, unpopular governor of the Dominion of New England.
  • 1690
  • September 25: Publick Occurrences newspaper begins publication.{{cite book |title=Famous First Facts |year=2000 |publisher= H.W. Wilson Co. |editor=Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell |isbn= 0-8242-0958-3 |title-link=Famous First Facts }}
  • London Coffee-House in business.{{cite book|author= Markman Ellis |title=The Coffee-House: a Cultural History |publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson |location=London |year=2004 |isbn=0-297-84319-2}}
  • 1692
  • Town becomes part of the British colonial Province of Massachusetts Bay.
  • Boston Overseers of the Poor established.
  • 1699 – Brattle Street Church built.
  • 1700 – North Writing School established.{{citation |publisher=Harvard University |url= http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou02526 |title= Specimens of penmanship from writing schools in Boston, 1748–1782: Guide |work=Online Archival Search Information System |access-date=August 30, 2014 }}

18th century

=1700s–1760s=

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  • 1701 – Castle William (fort) rebuilt in harbour.
  • 1704
  • Capen house built (approximate date).
  • April 24: The Boston News-Letter begins publication.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
  • 1705 – Benjamin Franklin born on Milk St.
  • 1711
  • October: Fire.{{sfn|Whitehill|2000}}
  • Pierce–Hichborn House built (approximate date).
  • 1712 – Crease's apothecary rebuilt.
  • 1713 – May: Boston Bread Riot.
  • 1716 – Boston Light erected in harbour.{{sfn|Bridenbaugh|1971}}
  • 1719 – December 21: Boston Gazette newspaper begins publication.{{cite web|access-date=July 16, 2013 |location=USA |url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/18th/massachusetts.html |title=Eighteenth-Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress: Massachusetts |publisher=Library of Congress }}
  • 1721 – 1721 Boston smallpox outbreak
  • 1722
  • John Bonner's map of Boston published.{{sfn|Whitehill|2000}}{{sfn|Maps|1903}}
  • Population: 10,567.
  • 1723 – Old North Church built, Salem Street.
  • 1729 – Old South Meeting House{{Citation |publisher = G. & C. Merriam Co. |location = Springfield, Massachusetts |title = Webster's Geographical Dictionary |date = 1960 |ol=5812502M |page= 148 }} and Granary built.{{sfn|Whitehill|2000}}
  • 1732 – Hollis Street Church established.
  • 1733 – September 27: Rebekah Chamblit executed.
  • 1735 – Trinity Church built on Summer St.
  • 1737
  • Charitable Irish Society of Boston founded.{{cite web |url=http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/list.html |title=Collection Guides |publisher=Massachusetts Historical Society |access-date=July 16, 2013}}
  • Saint Patrick's Day begins.{{cite book|editor=Melvin Ember|title=Encyclopedia of Diasporas |year= 2005|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-306-48321-9 |chapter=Irish Diaspora |author=N. Farley, P. Kilbride |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7QEjPVyd9YMC&pg=PA124 |page=124+ |display-editors=etal}}
  • 1738 – Workhouse built.{{sfn|Whitehill|2000}}
  • 1742 – Faneuil Hall built.
  • 1744 – Hospital active on Rainsford Island.{{sfn|Bridenbaugh|1971}}
  • 1745
  • March: Military expedition sails from Boston to Louisbourg.{{sfn|Philbrick|2013}}
  • November 5: Unrest during Pope's Night.{{sfn|Bridenbaugh|1971}}
  • Bells installed in Christ Church.{{cite book|editor= Laurence Urdang |title= Timetables of American History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9sa6_lkmofgC|year= 1996 |publisher=Touchstone |isbn=978-0-7432-0261-9}}
  • 1747 – Impressment triggers Knowles Riot.
  • 1748 – Manufactory House established.{{sfn|Bridenbaugh|1971}}
  • 1752
  • Smallpox epidemic.{{sfn|Bridenbaugh|1971}}
  • Concert Hall built.
  • 1754 – Boston Marine Society incorporated.
  • 1755 – November 18: Cape Ann earthquake.
  • 1760
  • March 20: Great Boston Fire of 1760.{{sfn|Bridenbaugh|1971}}
  • Population: 15,631.{{sfn|Bridenbaugh|1971}}
  • 1765 – Protest against Stamp Act.{{sfn|Overall|1870}}
  • 1768
  • Britain's American Customs Board headquartered in Boston.
  • June 10: Protest against customs officials.
  • July: The Liberty Song published.
  • September: Massachusetts Convention of Towns held in Faneuil Hall.
  • October: British troops begin to arrive.{{citation |title=Journal of Occurrences |date=1768–1769 |work=New York Journal |title-link=Journal of Occurrences }}{{cite web |url= http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/americanrevolution/timeline.html |work= American Revolution |series = Online Exhibitions |title= Timeline |year=2007 |publisher=British Library }}

=1770s–1790s=

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19th century

=1800s–1840s=

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=1850s–1890s=

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  • 1890
  • Boston Macaroni Company in business.{{sfn|Puleo|2007}}
  • College Club founded.
  • Boston Courant newspaper begins publication.
  • New England Kitchen begins operating.{{cite book|author=Harvey A. Levenstein|title=Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NXULJejXRWoC|year=2003 |publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-23439-0}}
  • 1891
  • Nathan Matthews Jr. becomes mayor.
  • Columbia Theatre and Lend a Hand Society established.
  • New Riding Club building constructed.
  • 1892 – Denison House (settlement) and North End Union founded.
  • 1893
  • Adams Courthouse built.
  • Grundmann Studios and Mechanic Arts High School{{sfn|Schools|1912}} established.
  • 1894
  • The First Church of Christ, Scientist built.
  • Keith's Theatre and Epicurian Club of Boston{{citation |title=Abstract of the Certificates of Corporations Organized Under the General Laws of Massachusetts |year=1895 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=teZKAAAAMAAJ |author1=Massachusetts }} established.
  • Immigration Restriction League headquartered in city.
  • 1895
  • August: First National Conference of the Colored Women of America held in Boston.
  • Edwin Upton Curtis becomes mayor.
  • Boston Public Library, McKim Building built.
  • 1896
  • Steinert Hall built.
  • Josiah Quincy becomes mayor.
  • Boston Cooking-School Cook Book published.
  • Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club formed.
  • 1897
  • April 19: Boston Marathon begins.{{cite web|url=http://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon/boston-marathon-history.aspx |title=History of the Marathon |work=Boston Marathon |publisher=Boston Athletic Association |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307073949/http://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon/boston-marathon-history.aspx |archive-date=March 7, 2012 }}
  • September 3: Park Street (MBTA station) opens.
  • 1898 – YMCA "Evening Institute for Younger Men" (precursor to Northeastern University) and Alliance Française established.
  • 1899
  • South Station built.
  • Simmons College and Boston Rescue Mission [http://www.brm.org/history.php] founded.
  • Choate, Hall & Stewart in business.
  • MIT's Technology Review begins publication.{{cite book |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008616223 |title=Technology Review |year= 1899 |volume=1 |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |location=Boston |access-date=December 5, 2013}}
  • 1900
  • Symphony Hall and Colonial Theatre{{cite web |url=http://www.lhat.org/historictheatres/theatre_inventory.aspx |title=Historic Theatre Inventory |location=Maryland, USA |publisher=League of Historic American Theatres |access-date=July 16, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721130121/http://www.lhat.org/historictheatres/theatre_inventory.aspx |archive-date=July 21, 2013 }} built.
  • Colored American Magazine headquartered in Boston.
  • Thomas N. Hart becomes mayor again.
  • Population: 560,892.{{citation |author=U.S. Census Bureau |work= Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2003 |title=Mini-Historical Statistics: Population of the Largest 75 Cities: 1900 to 2000 |url=https://www.census.gov/statab/hist/HS-07.pdf }}

20th century

=1900s–1940s=

  • 1901
  • January: L Street Brownies (swim club) plunge begins.{{citation |publisher=WBUR |url=http://artery.wbur.org/2014/01/01/celebrating-new-years-by-jumping-in-the-harbor-with-the-l-st-brownies |title=Celebrating New Year's By Jumping In The Harbor With The L St. Brownies |date= January 1, 2014 }}
  • April 20: Huntington Avenue Grounds open.
  • Boston Red Sox and Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government{{Citation |url = https://archive.org/stream/ost-history-history_of_woman_suffrage_1900_1920/History_of_Woman_Suffrage_1900_1920#page/n9/mode/2up |title = History of Woman Suffrage |volume=6 |date = 1922 |publisher = National American Woman Suffrage Association |editor=Ida Husted Harper }}{{cite book |title=Official Register and Directory of Women's Clubs in America |chapter=Boston |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uUkMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA123 |year= 1913 }} founded.
  • Horticultural Hall built on Massachusetts Avenue.
  • Boston Guardian newspaper begins publication.
  • Arcadia Hotel fire
  • 1902
  • Patrick Collins becomes mayor.
  • June 23: First Commencement of YMCA "Evening Institute for Younger Men" (precursor to Northeastern University) is conducted, with Josiah Quincy (1859–1919) as the speaker.{{cite web |url=https://library.northeastern.edu/services/archives-special-collections/northeastern-history/commencement-speakers-honorary-degrees | title= Commencement Speakers and Honorary Degrees | publisher= Northeastern University Library | access-date= April 29, 2019}}
  • Tennis and Racquet Club building constructed.

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  • Charles River Dam Bridge built.
  • Chilton Club for women and League of Catholic Women established.
  • John F. Fitzgerald becomes mayor again.
  • Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities,{{cite book |title=American Art Annual |year=1916 |volume=13 |publisher=American Federation of Arts |location=NY |chapter-url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007909533 |chapter=Boston }} Armenian General Benevolent Union,{{cite book |title=Armenians in Massachusetts |location=Boston |publisher= Armenian Historical Society |year= 1937a |url= http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010029591 |series=American Guide Series |author=Federal Writers' Project |author-link=Federal Writers' Project }} and World Peace Foundation{{sfn|Charitable|1914}} headquartered in city.
  • Boston Arena opens, and today the world's oldest operational indoor multisports facility.
  • 1911 – Plymouth Theatre opens.
  • 1912
  • January: Revere House hotel burns down in Bowdoin Square.
  • March: Red Line (MBTA) begins operating.
  • April 20: Fenway Park opens.
  • Hyde Park annexed to Boston.
  • St. James Theatre opens.
  • City Park and Recreation Department created.
  • Vedanta Center established (approximate date).{{cite web |url= http://pluralism.org/religion/timelines |title=Hinduism in America |work=America's Many Religions: Timelines |author=Pluralism Project |publisher=Harvard University |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |access-date=October 4, 2013}}
  • 1913
  • Boylston Street Fishweir discovered.
  • Women's City Club and Boston Society of Landscape Architects established.
  • 1914
  • James Michael Curley becomes mayor.
  • May 4: Exeter Street Theatre opens.{{cite web |url= http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/united-states/massachusetts/boston?status=all |title=Movie Theaters in Boston, Massachusetts |work=CinemaTreasures.org |publisher= Cinema Treasures LLC |location=Los Angeles |access-date=February 1, 2014 }}
  • Guild of Boston Artists incorporated.
  • City Planning Board and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston established.
  • 1915
  • April 26: Protest against screening of Birth of a Nation.{{citation |url=https://www.massmoments.org |title=Massmoments.org |access-date= April 8, 2021 }}
  • Custom House Tower built.
  • Artists League of Boston founded.
  • Boston Chronicle begins publication.{{cite book |title=Print Culture in a Diverse America |editor=James Philip Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year= 1998 |isbn=9780252066993 }}
  • 1916
  • November 7: Summer Street Bridge disaster.{{citation |work=Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/10/29/the-trolley-disaster-the-accident-and-era/4GxLDBZOIbt902ZwpJmmhL/story.html |title=1916 trolley disaster: The accident and the era |date=October 29, 2016 }}
  • Quong Kow Chinese School founded.{{cite web |url= http://www.kwongkowschool.org/history |title=History |location=Boston |publisher=Kwong Kow Chinese School |access-date=July 16, 2013}}
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology relocates from Boston to Cambridge.
  • 1917 – Boston School for Secretaries established.{{cite book|author1=Frank L. Grzyb|author2=Russell J. DeSimone|title=Remarkable Women of Rhode Island|year=2014|publisher=History Press|isbn=978-1-62619-537-0 |quote=Katherine Gibbs }}
  • 1918

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  • Loew's State Theater (cinema) opens.
  • James Michael Curley becomes mayor again.
  • Boston Council of Social Agencies incorporated.{{cite book|author=Susan Traverso|title=Welfare Politics in Boston, 1910–1940|year=2003|publisher=University of Massachusetts Press|isbn=1-55849-378-6}}
  • 1923 – September 8: Boston Airport opens.
  • 1924
  • WBZ (AM) radio begins broadcasting in Boston; it had originally debuted in Springfield in 1921.{{cite web |url=http://www.bostonradio.org/timeline/timeline-20s |title=Eastern Massachusetts Radio Timeline |publisher= Bostonradio.org |access-date=January 25, 2014 }}
  • International Institute of Boston opens.{{cite web |url=http://ihrc.umn.edu/research/vitrage/index.php |title=Archives |author= Immigration History Research Center |publisher=University of Minnesota |access-date=July 16, 2013|author-link=Immigration History Research Center }}
  • The Boston Bruins professional ice hockey team is founded, one of the NHL's Original Six teams.
  • 1925
  • Pickwick Club collapse
  • Metropolitan Theatre built.
  • 1926 – Republican Malcolm Nichols becomes mayor.
  • 1927
  • August 23: Sacco and Vanzetti executed.{{citation |work=The New York Times |url= http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/ |title= On This Day |access-date=November 30, 2014 }}
  • Boston College High School incorporated.
  • Statler Hotel Boston opens for business.
  • 1928
  • Boston University Bridge built.
  • November 17: Boston Garden opens.
  • Beacon Hill Garden Club founded.
  • John William McCormack becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 12th congressional district.
  • 1929 – Caffe Vittoria [http://www.vittoriacaffe.com] in business.
  • 1930 – James Michael Curley becomes mayor yet again.
  • John C. Hull appointed first Securities Director of Massachusetts (Jan. 1930).
  • Edward C. Johnson II applied to have the "Fidelity Fund" approved in May 1930.
  • 1932
  • Boston Municipal Research Bureau founded.
  • Charles/MGH (MBTA station) opens.{{Citation |date = 1985 |author = Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority |title = Red Line Northeast Extension |chapter= Historical Chronology of the Red Line |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/redlinenortheast00mass#page/n13/mode/1up }}
  • 1933
  • Slifky's Reliable Oil Burner Service in business in Dorchester.{{cite web |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/06/08/from-family-business-fortune/4aAJdLZK1zf89U002S6YxO/story.html |title=Global Partners is now an industry powerhouse |date=June 9, 2013 |work= Boston Globe |access-date=March 23, 2014 }}
  • St. Stephen's Armenian Apostolic Church established.[http://acecwatertown.org/about-acec/sister-organizations/]
  • 1934
  • Frederick Mansfield becomes mayor.
  • Sumner Tunnel opens.
  • Calvin Coolidge College established.
  • 1935 – Boston Housing Authority established.
  • 1936 – Boston Museum of Modern Art founded.{{cite web |url=http://www.icaboston.org/about/history/ |title=About the ICA |publisher= Institute of Contemporary Art |location=Boston }}
  • 1937 – Marquand's fictional The Late George Apley published.
  • 1938 – Maurice J. Tobin becomes mayor.
  • 1939
  • Wheelock College incorporated.
  • Housewives League of Boston founded.{{Citation |publisher = Oxford University Press |title = Women and the City: Gender, Power, and Space in Boston, 1870–1940 |author = Sarah Deutsch |year= 2000 |ol= 7386647M }}
  • Holy Name Church built.

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  • 1940
  • Citgo sign erected.
  • Hatch Memorial Shell built.
  • Boston School of Pharmacy incorporated.
  • 1941 – McCloskey's children's book Make Way for Ducklings published.
  • 1942
  • November 28: Cocoanut Grove fire.
  • New England Chinese Women's Association headquartered in city.{{Citation |publisher = Boston Women's Heritage Trail |isbn = 9781933212401 |title = Boston Women's Heritage Trail |author = Polly Kaufman |date = 2006 |edition=3rd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KcCMtprTrv4C }} (fulltext via Google)

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  • 1944 – Fenway Garden Society established.
  • 1945
  • John E. Kerrigan becomes acting mayor.
  • Schillinger House and French Library{{citation |url=http://www.frenchculturalcenter.org/index.cfm/about-us/who-we-are/ |title=Who We Are |publisher=French Cultural Center of Boston |access-date=June 30, 2014 }} founded.
  • 1946
  • Fidelity in business.
  • City Department of Veterans’ Services created.
  • Community Boating incorporated.
  • James Michael Curley becomes mayor yet again once more.
  • American Meteorological Society headquartered in city.{{Cite journal|date=April 1946|title=The President's Page|journal=Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society|language=en|volume=27|issue=4|pages=191–192|doi=10.1175/1520-0477-27.4.191|bibcode=1946BAMS...27..191.|issn=0003-0007|doi-access=free}}
  • 1947

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  • Mayor Curley imprisoned; John Hynes becomes acting mayor.
  • Boston Trailer Park established.{{citation |url=http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/west_roxbury/2011/05/bostons_only_trailer_park_to_g.html |date=May 2011 |work=Boston.com |title=Boston's only trailer park to get a facelift }}
  • Old John Hancock Building built.
  • John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 11th congressional district.{{cite book |title=Official Congressional Directory |year=1947 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Government Printing Office |chapter= Massachusetts |title-link=Official Congressional Directory |hdl=2027/mdp.39015022759057 }}
  • Wally's nightclub in business.
  • 1949 – Freedom House established.

=1950s–1970s=

  • 1950
  • January 17: Great Brink's Robbery.
  • Federation of South End Settlements and Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts established.
  • Population: 801,444.
  • 1951
  • June 15: Storrow Drive opens.
  • October 6: WGBH (FM) begins broadcasting.{{cite web |url= http://www.wgbh.org/wgbhtimeline/index.cfm |title=History of WGBH: Timeline |publisher=WGBH Educational Foundation |access-date=March 23, 2014 }}
  • Museum of Science opens.
  • Long Island Viaduct (bridge) built.{{citation |work=Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/09/bridge/XN1iPRco8HRo5iaUUE0QHN/story.html |title= Harbor bridge closing brings hunt for new shelters, services |date=October 9, 2014 }}
  • 1954 – Schillinger House renamed Berklee College of Music.
  • 1955
  • May 2: WGBH-TV begins broadcasting.
  • June 5: Martin Luther King Jr. earns PhD from Boston University.
  • Saint Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church active.{{cite web |url=http://www.ukrainiancenter.org/UCC/linksList.php |title=Useful Links |publisher=Ukrainian American Educational Center of Boston Inc. |access-date=May 6, 2014 }}
  • Boston Catholic Television begins broadcasting.
  • 1956
  • Boston Airport renamed Logan International Airport.
  • O'Connor's fictional The Last Hurrah published.
  • 1957
  • Boston Redevelopment Authority and Gibson House Museum established.
  • WILD (AM) radio on the air.
  • 1958
  • February 16–17: Snowstorm.{{sfn|Snowstorms|2013}}
  • November: Funeral of James Michael Curley.{{sfn|Beatty|1992}}
  • Freedom Trail established.{{cite web |url=http://www.thefreedomtrail.org/ |title=Thefreedomtrail.org |access-date= May 23, 2010 }}
  • 1959
  • Central Artery (freeway) built.
  • Sister city relationship established with Kyoto, Japan.
  • October 2: Total Solar Eclipse passes through city
  • ca. 1959–60 – West End demolition
  • 1960
  • March 3–5: Snowstorm.{{sfn|Snowstorms|2013}}
  • October 1: Peace rally held.{{cite book|author= John Bassett McCleary |title=The Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s |year=2004|publisher=Ten Speed Press|isbn=978-1-58008-547-2 |chapter=Anti-War Events |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=uPV8phkhHAQC&pg=PA602 |pages=602+ }}
  • Model United Nations conference held at Northeastern University.{{citation |work=Boston Globe |title= Model United Nations Sprouts in Boston |date= April 24, 1960 }}
  • Sister city relationship established with Strasbourg, France.
  • John F. Collins becomes mayor.
  • Razing of Mission Hill's historic district for three high-rise residences
  • 1961
  • Callahan Tunnel and Boston Common Parking Garage{{sfn|O'Connor|1995}} open.
  • Puerto Rican Entering and Settling Service founded.
  • [http://www.mma.org/about-mma-mainmenu-62 Massachusetts League of Cities and Towns] headquartered in Boston.{{cite news|title=Cities, Towns league adds two to staff|work=Boston Globe|date=July 24, 1961|page=19|quote=The Massachusetts League of Cities and Towns will open its headquarters at 8 Beacon st., Aug. 1, it was announced last night by the organization's president, Mayor Philip J. Crowley of Everett.}}
  • 1962
  • June 14: Boston Strangler murders begin.
  • Scollay Square razed.{{Citation |publisher = Northeastern University Press |title = Always Something Doing: Boston's Infamous Scollay Square |author = David Kruh |date = 1999 |ol=33238M }}
  • Caffe Paradiso in business.{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991103153225/http://www.caffeparadiso.com/ |url-status=dead |title=Caffe Paradiso |archive-date=November 3, 1999 |url=http://www.caffeparadiso.com/ }}
  • 1963
  • Metropolitan Area Planning Council and Boston Ballet founded.
  • The French Chef television cooking program begins broadcasting.
  • 1964
  • Prudential Tower built.
  • University of Massachusetts Boston and Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority established.
  • May 22: Bellflower Street fire in Dorchester.{{citation |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/05/21/city-recalls-devastating-dorchester-fire/Kvl2ZiEDnJooHGyxQ629yH/story.html |title=Devastating 1964 Dorchester fire recalled |work=Boston Globe |date=May 22, 2014 }}
  • 1965 – April 23: Civil rights rally held on Boston Common.{{sfn|Lukas|1985}}

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  • 1966
  • Boston Phoenix newspaper begins publication.{{cite web |url=http://corp.thephoenix.com/2010/11/24/how-it-began/ |title=The Phoenix: Origins |publisher=Phoenix Media/Communications Group |location=Boston }}
  • Lower Roxbury Community Corporation, Haley House,{{Cite web|url=http://www.haleyhouse.org/our_story_our_history|title=Haley House|accessdate=5 January 2024}} and South End Historical Society established.
  • Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity school desegregation program begins.{{citation |url=http://www.cityofboston.gov/images_documents/guide%20to%20the%20desegregation-era%20records%20collection_tcm3-23340.pdf |publisher=City of Boston |title=Desegregation-era Records Collection ... Boston Public Schools |author=Boston City Archives |access-date=December 30, 2015 |quote= Selective Historical Timeline }}
  • Copley Square remodeled.
  • Paramount Hotel explosion
  • 1967
  • November 7: Boston mayoral election, 1967 held.{{citation |work=Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/10/21/how-mayoral-race-changed-boston/Ye9fFmQFTrdXk0GKliF5kK/story.html |title=How the 1967 mayoral race changed Boston |date=October 21, 2017 }}
  • Charles Cinema in business.
  • Chinese American Civic Association headquartered in city.{{cite web |url=http://aaca-boston.org/future/our-story/ |title=Our Story |publisher=Asian American Civic Association |location=Boston |access-date= June 30, 2014 }}
  • Bowker Overpass built.{{cite web |publisher=Massachusetts Historical Society |work=The Beehive (blog) |url= http://www.masshist.org/blog/index.php?series=58 |title=Around the Neighborhood |access-date=April 30, 2014 }} 2012–present

File:(USA) Boston Exeter Street, Back Bay.jpg

  • 1968
  • April 4: Racial unrest.{{sfn|Lankevich|1974}}
  • April 5: James Brown concert, Boston Garden.{{cite web |url=http://www.wgbh.org/article/?item_id=3196439 |title=James Brown: Live at the Boston Garden, 1968 |publisher=WGBH }}
  • May 2: Boston Celtics win basketball championship.{{sfn|Lankevich|1974}}
  • National Center of Afro–American Artists, Alianza Hispana, Sociedad Latina de South Boston, Community Change [http://communitychangeinc.org] and city Council on Aging established.
  • Blackside films in business.
  • Kevin White becomes mayor.
  • 1969
  • February: Boston City Hall new building dedicated.{{sfn|Lankevich|1974}}
  • February 24–27: Snowstorm.{{sfn|Snowstorms|2013}}
  • May 5: Boston Celtics win basketball championship again.{{sfn|Lankevich|1974}}
  • Pine Street Inn homeless shelter begins operating.
  • New England Aquarium opens.
  • Walk for Hunger begins.
  • 1970
  • May: Antiwar demonstration held.{{cite book |author= Richard A. Hogarty |title= Massachusetts Politics and Public Policy |year=2002 |publisher= University of Massachusetts Press |isbn=1-55849-362-X}}
  • May 10: Boston Bruins win ice hockey championship.{{sfn|Lankevich|1974}}
  • Boston Pride begins.{{citation |url=http://blog.thephoenix.com/BLOGS/phlog/archive/2011/06/11/41-years-of-pride-it-really-has-gotten-better.aspx |title=41 years of Pride |date=June 11, 2011 |publisher=The Phoenix }}
  • Aerosmith (musical group), Boston Center for the Arts, and city Rent Board established.
  • One Boston Place and 28 State Street built.
  • Boston Properties in business.
  • 1971
  • Massachusetts Rehabilitation Hospital and Boston Food Co-op established.{{cite web |title=NCGA Co-ops: Massachusetts |publisher=National Cooperative Grocers Association |location=Iowa |url=http://www.ncga.coop/member-stores }}
  • Government Service Center built.
  • Nova Scotia's donation of the Boston Christmas Tree tradition resumes.{{citation |title=From Nova Scotia with love: Boston's Christmas tree begins its odyssey to the Common |date= November 13, 2013 |work=Boston Globe |url=http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/11/13/from-nova-scotia-with-love-boston-christmas-tree-begins-its-odyssey-the-common/wlogMGMaMefXKWpwOuZ97H/story.html }}
  • 1972
  • June 17: Hotel Vendome fire.
  • Labor demonstration.
  • Maison Robert restaurant in business.{{cite web|title=Maison Robert |url=http://www.maisonrobert.com/background.html |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990218041302/http://www.maisonrobert.com/background.html |archive-date=February 18, 1999 }}
  • Boston Public Library Johnson building opens.
  • 1973
  • The Boston Caribbean Carnival, is founded (same year as New York City and Washington, D.C.)
  • Bunker Hill Community College, Roxbury Community College, Boston Harbor Association, City Life/Vida Urbana, and Boston Baroque{{citation |url=http://artery.wbur.org/2013/11/08/boston-baroque |work=WBUR |publisher=Boston University |title=For 40 Years, Boston Baroque Has Been Playing Far-Older Instruments |date=November 8, 2013}} founded.
  • 1974
  • Desegregation busing conflict due to outcome of verdict Morgan v. Hennigan.{{citation |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/06/20/fortieth-anniversary-court-order-mandating-desegregation-boston-schools/Uw1t711Atepf256b4BL96M/story.html |work=Boston Globe |date=June 21, 2014 |title=1974 busing decision led to strong opinions, reactions }}{{citation |url=http://www.wbur.org/2014/06/20/boston-busing-ruling-anniversary |publisher=WBUR |title= How The Boston Busing Decision Still Affects City Schools 40 Years Later |date=June 20, 2014 }}
  • Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción active.
  • July 4: Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops begin the annual tradition of a concert and fireworks show at the Hatch Shell on the Charles River Esplanade, courtesy of local businessman and philanthropist David G. Mugar.
  • The Rathskeller music venue opens.
  • Rosie's Place founded.
  • 1975
  • Boston Landmarks Commission{{cite web |title=About the Boston Landmarks Commission |publisher=City of Boston |access-date=May 30, 2015 |url=http://www.cityofboston.gov/landmarks/about/ }} and ArtsBoston established.
  • Boston Consulting Group in business.
  • New Boston Review begins publication.
  • 1976
  • John Hancock Tower built.
  • July 4: America's Bicentennial celebrations.
  • First Night begins.
  • Boston Irish News begins publication.{{cite web |url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/results/?state=Massachusetts&county=&city=Boston&rows=50&sort=date |title=US Newspaper Directory |location=Washington, D.C. |work=Chronicling America |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=July 16, 2013 }}
  • Boston Film/Video Foundation and Boston By Foot established.
  • WGBH Ten O’Clock News (local news) begins broadcasting.{{cite web |url=http://openvault.wgbh.org/collections/tocn-the-ten-o-clock-news |title=Open Vault |author=WGBH Media Library and Archives |publisher=WGBH Educational Foundation |access-date=March 23, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410020402/http://openvault.wgbh.org/collections/tocn-the-ten-o-clock-news |archive-date=April 10, 2014 }}
  • Faneuil Hall marketplace developed.{{citation |work=CQ Researcher |date=2006 |volume=16 |number=24 |title= Downtown Renaissance |author=Alan Greenblatt }}
  • 1977
  • Federal Reserve Bank Building constructed.
  • Chinese Progressive Association founded.
  • 1978
  • January 20–21: Snowstorm.{{sfn|Snowstorms|2013}}
  • February 6–7: Snowstorm.{{sfn|Snowstorms|2013}}
  • Newbury Comics in business.
  • American Buddhist Shim Gum Do Association headquartered in Brighton.
  • Boston Preservation Alliance founded.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bostonpreservation.org/boston-preservation-alliance/history.html|title=Boston Preservation Alliance|accessdate=5 January 2024}}
  • L'Espalier restaurant in business.{{cite web |url=http://www.eatwellguide.org/localguide/ |title=Featured Guides: City: Boston |work=Eat Well Guide |access-date=May 30, 2015 |publisher=Grace Communication Foundation |location=New York |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316182000/http://www.eatwellguide.org/localguide/ |archive-date=March 16, 2015 }}
  • 1979
  • WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble begins.
  • Boston Children's Museum building and Computer Museum open.
  • John F. Kennedy Library built.
  • Center for Chinese Art and Culture,{{cite web |url= http://library.northeastern.edu/archives-special-collections/find-collections/finding-aids |title=Index of Boston History Collections |location=Boston |publisher=Northeastern University Libraries |access-date=June 30, 2014 }} and Mission of Burma (musical group) established.
  • Brian J. Donnelly becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 11th congressional district.

=1980s–1990s=

  • 1980
  • Boston Early Music Festival, Boston Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Youth, The History Project, and Culinary Historians of Boston{{cite web |url= http://www.culinaryhistoriansboston.com/about.htm |title=Culinary Historians of Boston }} founded.
  • The Channel (nightclub) opens.
  • Sister city relationship established with Barcelona, Spain.
  • Population: 562,994.
  • 1981
  • Boston Society of Film Critics, Dance Umbrella,{{cite web |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/1989/0801/lumb.html |title=Bringing World Dance To Boston |date=August 1, 1989 |work=The Christian Science Monitor}} and Boston Area Feminist Coalition founded.
  • Boston Food Bank incorporated.{{cite web |url=http://www.gbfb.org/our-mission/about-gbfb.php |title=GBFB History |publisher=Greater Boston Food Bank |access-date=October 31, 2013 }}{{cite web |url=http://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/search?utf8=✓&q=boston&state%5Bid%5D=MA&ntee%5Bid%5D=&c_code%5Bid%5D= |publisher=ProPublica |location=New York |title=Boston, Massachusetts |work=Nonprofit Explorer |date=9 May 2013 |editor=Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei |access-date=October 31, 2013 }}
  • J.P. Licks in business.
  • 1982
  • Suffolk Construction Company in business.
  • Boston Gay Men's Chorus{{Cite web|url=http://www.bgmc.org/our-stories/about-us|title=Boston Gay Men's Chorus|accessdate=5 January 2024}} and Boston Fair Housing Commission established.
  • Sister city relationship established with Hangzhou, China.
  • Cheers fictional television program begins broadcasting.
  • 1983
  • Dorchester Reporter begins publication.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dotnews.com/about-us|title=About the Dorchester Reporter | Dorchester Reporter|website=www.dotnews.com|accessdate=5 January 2024}}
  • Boston Community Access and Programming Foundation established.{{cite web |url=http://www.bnntv.org/about/mission |title=Boston Neighborhood Network TV website |access-date= September 24, 2011 }}
  • Bayside Expo Center opens.
  • Sister city relationship established with Padua, Italy.
  • 1984
  • Raymond Flynn becomes mayor.
  • Bernard Law becomes Catholic bishop of Boston.{{sfn|O'Connor|1984}}
  • Bain Capital, Trident Booksellers,{{Cite web|url=http://tridentbookscafe.com/about_us/|title=Trident Booksellers|accessdate=5 January 2024}} and Copley Place Cinemas in business.
  • Boston Human Rights Commission, and city Office of Business and Cultural Development established.
  • 1985
  • Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative{{Cite web|url=http://www.dsni.org/dsni-historic-timeline|title=Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative|accessdate=5 January 2024}} and Universal Buddhist Congregation{{cite web |url=http://www.pluralism.org/directory/index/page:1/city:boston/country:US/state:MA |title=Boston, Massachusetts |work=Directory of Religious Centers |author=Pluralism Project |publisher=Harvard University |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |access-date=October 9, 2013}} established.
  • Lecco's Lemma hip-hop radio program begins broadcasting on WMBR.{{citation |url=http://openarchives.umb.edu/ |title=Open Archives Digital Collections |publisher= University of Massachusetts Boston, Healey Library |access-date=May 30, 2015 }}[http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/153093-in-memoriam-magnus-johnstone-1952-2013/]
  • Sister city relationship established with Melbourne, Australia.
  • Massachusetts State Archives moves to Columbia Point.
  • 1986 – Pixies (musical group), and city Office of Arts and Humanities established.
  • 1987
  • ACT UP/Boston and Jamaica Plain Historical Society{{cite web |url=http://www.artsboston.org/org/listing |title=Organization Directory |publisher=ArtsBoston |access-date=October 17, 2013}} founded.
  • Back Bay (MBTA station) rebuilt.
  • Partners In Health nonprofit headquartered in city.
  • Joseph P. Kennedy II becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 8th congressional district.
  • Hamersley's Bistro in business.
  • 1988
  • City of Boston Archives and City Year established.
  • Hynes Convention Center and 75 State Street{{Citation |date = 1989 |publisher = Timelines, Inc. |title = Archaeology and Site History of 75 State Street |ol = 23278644M}} built.
  • Aberdeen Group in business.
  • Michael Dukakis presidential campaign and Pioneer Institute headquartered in city.
  • Tent City (housing complex) dedicated.
  • 1989
  • October 23: Stuart shootings in Mission Hill.
  • Biba restaurant in business.{{cite book|editor=Andrew Smith |title= Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America |year= 2013 |edition=2nd |publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-973496-2 |chapter=Boston |page=186+ |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=DOJMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA186 }}
  • Sister city relationship established with Haifa, Israel.
  • Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church{{cite web |url=http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2011/04/power-2008-reverend-ray-hammond-pastor-at-bethel-african-methodist-episcopal-church/ |work=Boston Magazine |date=May 2008 |title=Reverend Ray Hammond: Pastor at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church }} and New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans [http://nechv.org/about/history/] founded.
  • 1990
  • March 18: Gardner Museum heist.
  • Population: 574,283.{{citation |title=Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990 |year=1998 |url=https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/1998/demo/POP-twps0027.html |publisher=US Census Bureau }}
  • 1991- Deer Island Prison closes.
  • The no-name weather system on Halloween becomes known as the Perfect Storm due to how it came together.
  • 1992
  • Spare Change News begins publication.
  • Ten Point Coalition founded.{{cite web |url=http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/30/ten-point-coalition |year=2009 |publisher=WBUR |title=Ten Point Coalition }}
  • Chinese Historical Society of New England headquartered in city.{{Cite web|url=http://www.chsne.org/about.htm|title=Chinese Historical Society of New England|accessdate=5 January 2024}}
  • Avalon nightclub opens.
  • 1993
  • July 12: Thomas Menino, president of the Boston City Council, becomes acting mayor when Mayor Flynn resigns to accept his appointment by President Clinton to become Ambassador to the Holy See.
  • November 2: Menino is elected mayor in his own right.
  • Urban College of Boston established.
  • C-Mart grocery in Chinatown{{sfn|Grocery|2013}} and Alpha Management Corp. (landlord){{cite web |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/specials/shadow-campus |title= Devastating mismatch: city vs. scofflaw landlords |date=May 5, 2014 |work=Boston Globe |author=Jonathan Saltzman|series=Shadow Campus |access-date=May 6, 2014 |display-authors=etal}} in business.
  • 1994

File:Martin Walsh Massachusetts House of Representatives.png

File:City Councilor Thomas Menino with Mayor Raymond Flynn (15053347954).jpg during Menino's tenure as a City Councilor]]

21st century

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=2000s=

  • 2001
  • Stephen Lynch becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 9th congressional district.{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120707020147/http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/stephen_lynch/400249 |archive-date= July 7, 2012 |url-status=dead |url= http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/stephen_lynch/400249 |title=Members of Congress |work=GovTrack |author=Civic Impulse, LLC |location=Washington, D.C. }}
  • Sister city relationship established with Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana.
  • Trader Joe's grocery in business in Back Bay.{{sfn|Grocery|2013}}
  • MassEquality headquartered in Boston.{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}
  • 2002
  • Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Boston reported.
  • Super 88 grocery in business in Allston.{{sfn|Grocery|2013}}
  • South End Technology Center active.
  • 2003
  • February 17–18: Snowstorm.{{sfn|Snowstorms|2013}}
  • Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge opens.
  • Discover Roxbury established.{{Cite web|url=http://www.discoverroxbury.org/about-discover-roxbury|title=Discover Roxbury|accessdate=5 January 2024}}
  • Independent Film Festival of Boston and Anime Boston convention begin.
  • AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts headquartered in city.
  • 2004
  • June: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center opens.
  • July: 2004 Democratic National Convention held.
  • October 27: Red Sox win World Series (for the first time since 1918).
  • Boston Social Forum held.
  • Artists for Humanity EpiCenter built.
  • Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti headquartered in Boston.
  • City's "Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events" and Boston Public Library Map Center established.
  • 2005
  • January 22–23: Blizzard.{{sfn|Snowstorms|2013}}
  • Boston Workers Alliance and Boston Derby Dames (rollerderby league) established.
  • Universal Hub begins publication.{{cite web |url= http://www.universalhub.com/node/142 |title= About Universal Hub |location=Boston |publisher=Adam Gaffin |access-date=October 17, 2013}}
  • Eastern Standard restaurant and Toro restaurant in business.{{citation |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/brackets/munchmadness2015 |title=Munch Madness 2015 |work=Boston Globe |access-date=26 March 2015 }}
  • 2006
  • July 10: Big Dig ceiling collapse.
  • August 15: Joseph E. Aoun takes office as the seventh president of Northeastern University.{{cite web |url=https://library.northeastern.edu/archives-special-collections/find-collections/northeastern-history/timeline/2000s |title = Northeastern History |work=Northeastern University |access-date=24 April 2019 }}
  • December: Institute of Contemporary Art building opens in South Boston.
  • Crittenton Women's Union formed.
  • 2007
  • Big Dig completed.
  • 826 Boston (writing center) and Berklee's Cafe 939{{cite web |url=http://www.berklee.edu/facilities/cafe939.html |title=Facilities |publisher=Berklee College of Music }} open.
  • Charles/MGH (MBTA station) rebuilt.
  • Myers + Chang restaurant in business.
  • Xconomy begins publication.
  • Sister city relationship established with Valladolid, Spain.
  • Grow Boston Greener established.{{Cite web|url=http://www.growbostongreener.org/gbg/about.html|title=None|accessdate=5 January 2024}}
  • 2008
  • Rose Kennedy Greenway built.
  • Open Media Boston established.{{cite web |url= https://www.cjr.org/news_startups_guide/online-news-websites/location/massachusetts-news.php |title= Massachusetts |work=CJR's Guide to Online News Startups |publisher= Columbia Journalism Review |location= New York |access-date= October 19, 2013 }}
  • BostInno begins publication.
  • 2009
  • Boston Book Festival{{cite web |url= http://www.bostonbookfest.org/archives |title=Archives |publisher=Boston Book Festival |access-date= October 17, 2013}} and TEDx Boston begin.
  • GlobalPost news headquartered in Boston.{{cite web |url= http://www.niemanlab.org/encyclo |publisher= Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University |title= Encyclo: an Encyclopedia of the Future of News |access-date= March 23, 2014 }}
  • Boston Street Lab incorporated.{{cite web |url= http://www.bostonstreetlab.org/about/ |title= Boston Street Lab |url-status= unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110902170815/http://www.bostonstreetlab.org/about/ |archive-date= September 2, 2011 }}
  • City government "Citizens Connect" 3-1-1 app launched.{{citation |url= http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/boston-theres-an-app-for-that-107661.html#.U511tij3Yy4 |work= Politico |date=June 2014 |title= Boston: There's an App for That |author= Ben Schreckinger }}
  • Higher Ground Boston,{{cite web |url= http://www.higherground-boston.org/web/about-us/ |title= Higher Ground Boston }} and Bocoup Loft,{{cite web |url= https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Boston |title= Boston |work= Hackerspaces |access-date= November 9, 2013 }} Boston World Partnerships nonprofit,{{citation |url= http://www.commonwealthmagazine.org/News-and-Features/Online-exclusives/2012/Fall/017-Boston-World-Partnerships-calls-it-quits.aspx |work=CommonWealth Magazine |publisher= Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth |oclc= 35173879 |title= Boston World Partnerships calls it quits |date= November 15, 2012 }} and Boston University's New England Center for Investigative Reporting established.
  • Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center opens in Roxbury.{{cite web |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090825162439/http://www.isbcc.org/ |title= Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center |archive-date= August 25, 2009 |url= http://www.isbcc.org/ |url-status=dead |publisher= Muslim American Society, Boston Chapter }}
  • August 29: Funeral and procession for longtime US Senator Edward M. Kennedy.

=2010s=

  • 2010
  • One City One Story,{{cite web |url= http://www.bostonbookfest.org/attend/1c1s#about-1c1s |title= About 1C1S |publisher= Boston Book Festival |access-date= October 17, 2013}} Boston Rising program in Grove Hall,{{citation |url= https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/06/08/rising-and-falling/6xTtnkeTj0frxJyxFPIpvJ/story.html |title= Rising and falling |author= Yvonne Abraham |date= June 9, 2013 |work= Boston Globe }} Girls Rock Boston,{{cite web |url= http://www.girlsrockboston.org/Home.html |title= Girls Rock Boston |url-status=unfit |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100723151852/http://www.girlsrockboston.org/Home.html |archive-date= July 23, 2010 }} JP Music Festival,{{Cite web|url=http://www.jpmusicfestival.com/about-us.php|title=JP Music Festival|accessdate=5 January 2024}} and Design Museum Boston{{cite web |url= http://designmuseumboston.org/news/ |title= Design Museum Boston |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100626124000/http://designmuseumboston.org/news/ |archive-date= June 26, 2010 }} established.
  • MuckRock headquartered in Boston.
  • Island Creek Oyster Bar in business.
  • Population: 617,594; metro 4,552,402.{{cite web |url= https://www.census.gov/dataviz/visualizations/026/508.php |year=2012 |title= Largest Urbanized Areas With Selected Cities and Metro Areas (2010) |publisher=US Census Bureau }}
  • 2011
  • September 30: Occupy Boston begins.
  • Hubway (bike system) and Future Boston Alliance established.
  • Boston Urban Iditarod begins.{{cite web

|url = http://bostonurbaniditarod.com/ |title = Boston Urban Iditarod |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101209091610/http://bostonurbaniditarod.com/ |url-status = dead |archive-date = December 9, 2010 }}

  • Population: 625,087; metro 4,591,112.{{cite web |url=http://www.pewstates.org/research/data-visualizations/30-cities-an-introductory-snapshot-85899380032 |title=30 Cities: An Introductory Snapshot |year=2013 |work=American Cities Project |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Pew Charitable Trusts }}
  • 2012
  • October: Hurricane Sandy.
  • Data.cityofboston.gov website launched.
  • Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2012 headquartered in Boston.
  • Boston Contemporary Dance Festival begins.{{Cite web|url=http://bostoncontemporarydance.org/about1/ |title=About BCDF|accessdate=5 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723144526/http://bostoncontemporarydance.org/about1/ |archive-date=23 July 2013 |url-status=usurped}}
  • Population: 636,479.
  • 2013
  • February 8–9: Blizzard.{{sfn|Snowstorms|2013}}
  • April 15: Boston Marathon bombing.{{cite news |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-16759233 |title=United States Profile: Timeline |work=BBC News |date=27 January 2012 |access-date=October 30, 2014 }}
  • April 19: City shuts down for manhunt of marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. His brother Tamerlan died in a shootout with Watertown Police three after the tragedy. Towards the end of the manhunt, Dzhokhar was found hidden in a boat in a Watertown backyard. He was surrounded by police and was later taken into custody.
  • June 12: Whitey Bulger trial begins.{{cite news |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trial-of-james-whitey-bulger-begins-in-boston/2013/06/12/fea4f3f4-d375-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_story.html |title=Trial of James 'Whitey' Bulger begins in Boston |date=June 12, 2013 }}
  • October 30: The Boston Red Sox, in an end-of-year triumph, win the 2013 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals; the first win at Fenway Park since 1918, and the third they've won since 2004.
  • November 5: Boston mayoral election, 2013.
  • Millennium Tower construction begins.
  • Digital Public Library of America headquartered in Boston.
  • Code for Boston active.{{cite web |url=http://www.codeforamerica.org/cities/boston/ |title=Boston |publisher=Code for America }}
  • Longfellow Bridge renovation begins.

File:Michelle Wu at 2013 Allston Brighton Parade (51363685549) (1).png

  • November 14: Bulger was sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus five years for his crimes by U.S. District Judge Denise Casper.{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-whitey-bulger-sentence-20131114,0,443896.story |title=Ex-Boston mob boss 'Whitey' Bulger sentenced to two life terms |date=November 14, 2013 |website=Chicago Tribune |access-date=2016-01-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131117055621/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-whitey-bulger-sentence-20131114%2C0%2C443896.story |archive-date=2013-11-17 }} As of January 10, 2014 Bulger is currently incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona [http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2014/01/10/whitey-bulger-moved-federal-penitentiary-tucson/DQQFD1iczLVCV4B6rhqDDM/story.html].
  • 2014
  • Marty Walsh becomes mayor.{{Cite web|url=https://www.martywalsh.org/|title=Home|website=Marty Walsh|accessdate=5 January 2024}}{{cite web|last=Levenson |first=Michael |date=October 20, 2013|title=Martin Walsh's childhood marked by cancer fight |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/10/19/walsh-cancer-fight-marked-his-youth/bA7zWfYoA9CgW35F1FI1nJ/story.html|access-date=2020-09-26|work=The Boston Globe}}
  • Boston Veterans Treatment Court begins operating.{{cite web |url=http://wgbhnews.org/post/special-veterans-court-opens-boston |title=Veterans' treatment court opens in Boston |date=March 5, 2014 |work=WGBH News |publisher=WGBH Educational Foundation }}
  • April: City government open data executive order signed.{{cite web |title=Boston: the tale of two open data policies |publisher=Sunlight Foundation |location=Washington, D.C. |date=April 11, 2014 |url=http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/04/11/boston-the-tale-of-two-open-data-policies/ }}
  • November 3: Funeral and procession for former mayor Tom Menino, after he lay in state at Faneuil Hall the previous day.
  • December: Boston bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics submitted.[https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/sports/olympics/boston-2024-olympic-bid-is-a-problem-of-usocs-own-making.html]
  • TD Garden, the home of the Boston Bruins and Boston Celtics, will receive a $70 million facelift over the next two years.[http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2014/04/07/td-garden-renovations-project/ TD Garden Renovations Project] Boston Magazine {{dead link|date=January 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/blog/boston/bruins/post/_/id/15544/td-garden-to-have-major-renovations|title = TD Garden to have major renovations|date = 8 April 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://bostonherald.com/business/business_markets/2014/04/td_garden_in_boston_to_get_70m_makeover |title=TD Garden in Boston to get $70M makeover|website=bostonherald.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140411210135/http://bostonherald.com/business/business_markets/2014/04/td_garden_in_boston_to_get_70m_makeover |archive-date=2014-04-11}}

File:Boston Back Bay - Newbury Street - Boston U.S.A.- 2019 - Photography by David Adam Kess.jpg

  • 2015
  • January 5: The trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev begins.{{citation |work=The New York Times |date=January 9, 2015 |title=Boston Bombing Trial, Week by Week |url= https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/01/09/us/boston-bombing-trial-dzhokhar-tsarnaev.html }}
  • January 26–27: January 2015 North American blizzard.{{sfn|Snowstorms|2013}}
  • March: After closure in 2014 the rebuilt Government Center MBTA station reopens.
  • March–April: what remained of Long Island Bridge in Boston Harbor is demolished after having been formally closed a year earlier in 2014.
  • May: United Women's Lacrosse League is founded.{{cite press release | title=Play It Forward Sport and STX Announce Semi-Professional Women's Lacrosse League | publisher=www.playitforwardsport.org | date=May 21, 2015 | url=http://www.playitforwardsport.org/2015/05/play-it-forward-sport-and-stx-announce.html | access-date=June 1, 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625093146/http://www.playitforwardsport.org/2015/05/play-it-forward-sport-and-stx-announce.html | archive-date=June 25, 2016 }}
  • June: Kimono protest begins.{{citation |work=Boston Globe |date=July 19, 2015 |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/07/18/counter-protesters-join-kimono-fray-mfa/ZgVWiT3yIZSlQgxCghAOFM/story.html |title=Counter-protesters join kimono fray at MFA }}
  • July 14: Tide Street snow pile melts.{{citation |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/07/15/snowpile/pYXljLmX3C6amd4ixFNNKL/story.html |work=Boston Globe |date=July 15, 2015 |title=Rise and fall of a mountain of snowy misery }}
  • City 15-year master plan process begins.{{citation |work=Boston.com |url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2015/05/06/what-will-boston-look-like-walsh-wants-find-out/TA2veSbAs5EDNFJrtvQPiK/story.html |date=May 6, 2015 |title=What will Boston look like in 2030? }}
  • Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate opens.
  • Daily Table grocery{{citation |work=Vox |url=https://www.vox.com/2015/6/11/8756683/cheap-food-cure-hunger |date=June 11, 2015 |title=This new grocery store wants to sell old food for cheap to cure hunger }} and Boston Market in business.
  • Sunfish spotted in harbour.{{citation |work=Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/09/22/big-fish-story-malden-man-reaction-large-fish-goes-viral/TftWGEZiihOOpWj95DBEwK/story.html |date= September 22, 2015 |title=Reaction to large fish goes viral }}
  • Tower at One Greenway built.
  • One Dalton construction begins.{{citation |work=Financial Times |date= February 5, 2016 |title=The 'Manhattanisation' of Boston: city's high-rise building boom }}
  • 2016 – February 23: Boston Storm (UWLX) is founded as one of the four original teams in the United Women's Lacrosse League.{{cite web|url=http://uwlx.pointstreaksites.com/view/uwlx/uwlx-in-the-news/news_400094|title= UWLX Names 4 GMs For Inaugural Season|publisher=UWLX|date=2016-02-23 |access-date=2016-06-01}}
  • October: An unusually high 'King Tide' over-tops part of Long Wharf along the Boston waterfront.
  • 2017
  • January 21: Women's protest against U.S. president Trump.{{citation |title= Women lead unprecedented worldwide mass protests against Trump |date= January 22, 2017 |publisher=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-women-idUSKBN15608K }}
  • April 3: Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex at Northeastern University opens for collaborative research, laboratory access, and classroom learning.{{cite news | date = April 4, 2017 | url = https://news.northeastern.edu/2017/04/04/isec-opening-ushers-in-new-era-of-research-innovation-at-northeastern/ | work = Northeastern University | title = ISEC OPENING USHERS IN NEW ERA OF DISCOVERY AT NORTHEASTERN | first1= Greg St. | last1= Martin}}
  • August 18: Thousands march from Roxbury to Boston Common to protest white nationalism a week after violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. They protest a gathering of a hundred self-identified free speech advocates associated with the alt-right.{{cite news | access-date = August 19, 2017 | date = August 19, 2017 | url = https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/us/demonstration-race-free-speech-boston-charlottesville.html | work = The New York Times | title = Counterprotesters Surge Into Boston, Overshadowing Rally | first1= Katharine Q.| last1= Seelye | first2=Alan | last2= Blinder | first3=Jess | last3= Bidgood}}
  • August, 20: the .boston top-level internet domain (GeoTLD) officially started taking registrations.{{cite news |last1=Bray |first1=Hiawatha |date=August 10, 2017 |title=The dot-Boston domain is now open |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/08/10/the-dot-boston-domain-now-open/06SU5Q82wWHMTW51ZfwoJO/story.html |access-date=February 18, 2018 |url-access=subscription |quote=The .boston domain was initially awarded to the city of Boston and the Boston Globe in 2012, but the media company sold off nearly all its interests in the venture to Minds + Machines Group Limited, a company specializing in the operation of Internet domains. The Globe retains a small ownership percentage in the new domain and will receive some revenue from the sale of .boston addresses.}}
  • 2019
  • Long-time Dudley Square is officially renamed Nubian Square.

File:BosMem02.png during the 2022 season.{{cite web | url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/red-sox-will-wear-a-commemorative-patch-to-honor-jerry-remy-during-the-2022-season/ar-AAVnmKm | title=Red Sox will wear a commemorative patch to honor Jerry Remy during the 2022 season | website=MSN }}]]

=2020s=

  • 2020
  • March: Boston was hardest-hit by COVID-19 pandemic, Mayor Marty Walsh declares state of emergency, which put few thousands of residents out of work, issued strict local stay-at-home orders, and shifted others to work at home.
  • 2021
  • July 3: Wakefield standoff: an armed standoff occurs between a sovereign citizen movement militia group and Massachusetts State Police along a stretch of I-95 in Wakefield about {{convert|11|miles}} north of Downtown Boston.
  • November 2: Michelle Wu, a 36-year-old daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, is the first female to be elected Mayor of Boston.{{cite web | url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Boston-elects-Taiwanese-American-Michelle-Wu-as-mayor | title=Boston elects Taiwanese American Michelle Wu as mayor }}{{cite web | url=https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4347452 | title=Michelle Wu sworn in as Boston's first woman elected mayor | Taiwan News | 2021-11-17 04:13:07 | date=17 November 2021 }}{{cite web | url=https://apnews.com/article/business-elections-boston-massachusetts-kim-janey-2d4dc2c0fb1f373decc16c5ae6fa9b40 | title=Michelle Wu sworn in as Boston's first woman elected mayor | website=Associated Press | date=16 November 2021 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/boston-mayor-race-2021-michelle-wu-rcna4373 | title=Michelle Wu becomes first woman and person of color elected mayor of Boston, AP projects | website=NBC News | date=3 November 2021 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4333640 | title=Michelle Wu becomes Boston's first elected female, Taiwanese American mayor | Taiwan News | 2021-11-03 12:23:00 | date=3 November 2021 }}

File:Boston Freedom Trail path.jpg

  • 2022
  • A New Holocaust museum and education center {{cite web | url=https://jewishjournal.org/2022/04/14/new-holocaust-museum-planned-for-the-freedom-trail/ | title=New Holocaust museum planned for the Freedom Trail | date=14 April 2022 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.jewishboston.com/read/new-holocaust-museum-to-be-built-in-boston/ | title=New Holocaust Museum to be Built in Boston }} To be located on the Freedom Trail that marks the history of the United States. Marked largely with brick, it winds from Boston Common in downtown Boston through the North End to the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown. In 2022 a Holocaust museum was slated and design, along with plenty of funding and this will be designed along the Freedom Trail at the Boston Common within view of the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill.{{cite web | url=https://www.masslive.com/boston/2022/04/tell-my-story-boston-holocaust-museum-plan-takes-shape-as-building-is-bought-along-the-freedom-trail.html | title='Tell my story': Boston Holocaust museum plan takes shape along the Freedom Trail | date=7 April 2022 }}

See also

References

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  • {{citation |title=Boston Almanac |year=1838

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|title-link=Boston Almanac

}}

  • {{Citation |url = https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:bowenspictureofb1838bowe/Bowen's_picture_of_Boston_or_the_citizens_and_stranger's_guide_to_the_metropolis_of_Massachusetts_an |edition =3rd |title= Bowen's Picture of Boston |date = 1838 |author=Abel Bowen |publisher = Otis, Broaders and Company |location=Boston |ol =6905756M |oclc = 5204074

| ref = {{harvid|Bowen|1838}}

|author-link =Abel Bowen }}

  • {{cite book |title=New England Chronology |author=Alden Bradford |location= Boston |publisher= S.G. Simpkins |year= 1843 |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000153291

| ref = {{harvid|Bradford|1843}}

|author-link=Alden Bradford }}

  • {{Citation |publisher = William Tegg |location = London |title = Dictionary of Chronology |editor = William Henry Overall |date = 1870 |oclc = 2613202 |chapter=Boston |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofchro00overiala#page/98/mode/1up

| ref = {{harvid|Overall|1870}}

}}

  • {{cite book |title=Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Boston, September 17, 1880 |publisher= City Council |year=1880 |url=https://archive.org/details/celebrationtwoh01masgoog

| ref = {{harvid|Anniversary|1880}}

}}

  • {{cite book |author=Moses King |url=https://archive.org/details/backbaydistrict01kinggoog |title=Back-Bay District and the Vendôme |location= Boston |year=1880

| ref = {{harvid|King|1880}}

|author-link = Moses King}}

  • {{Citation |publisher = Ticknor and Company |location = Boston |title = Memorial History of Boston |volume=4 |editor = Justin Winsor |date = 1881 |oclc = 1838124

| ref = {{harvid|Winsor|1881}}

|ol = 24155402M }}

  • {{cite book |title=Story of the Irish in Boston |url=https://archive.org/details/TheStoryOfTheIrishInBoston|year=1889|publisher=James B. Cullen & Co.

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}}

;published in the 20th century

  • {{cite book |author=Edwin M. Bacon |title= Boston: a Guide Book |year= 1903 |url=https://archive.org/stream/bostonguidebook00baco#page/n3/mode/2up |publisher=Ginn & Co. |location=Boston

| ref = {{harvid|Bacon|1903}}

}}

  • {{cite book|title=List of Maps of Boston Published Between 1600 and 1903 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8oEUAAAAYAAJ|year=1903|publisher=Municipal Printing Office|author=City of Boston, Engineering Department

| ref = {{harvid|Maps|1903}}

}}

  • {{Citation |publisher = Ward, Lock & Co. |location = London |title = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates |author = Benjamin Vincent |edition = 25th |date = 1910 |chapter=Boston |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/haydnsdictionary00hayd#page/191/mode/1up

| ref = {{harvid|Haydn|1910}}

|title-link = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates }}

  • {{Citation |publisher = City of Boston |title = Chronology of the Boston Public Schools |date = 1912

| ref = {{harvid|Schools|1912}}

|ol = 7071642M }}

  • {{Citation |url = https://archive.org/stream/directoryofchari00assorich#page/n39/mode/2up |publisher = Old Corner Bookstore, Inc. |date = 1914 |location = Boston |title = Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Boston |edition=6th

| ref = {{harvid|Charitable|1914}}

}}

  • {{Citation |publisher = Riverside Press |location = Cambridge |author = Federal Writers' Project |title = Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People |date = 1937 |series=American Guide Series |author-link = Federal Writers' Project }} [https://archive.org/stream/massachusettsgui00federich#page/134/mode/2up "Boston"]; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015014440781?urlappend=%3Bseq=755 "Chronology"]
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|author-link = Carl Bridenbaugh }}

  • {{Citation |publisher = Oceana Publications |isbn = 0379006197 |location = Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. |series = American Cities Chronology Series |editor = Howard B. Furer |title = Boston: a Chronological & Documentary History, 1602–1970 |author = George J. Lankevich |date = 1974 |ref = {{harvid|Lankevich|1974}} |url-access = registration |url = https://archive.org/details/bostonchronologi0000lank }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Northeastern University Press |title = Fitzpatrick's Boston, 1846–1866 |author = Thomas H. O'Connor |date = 1984 |ol=1880066W

| ref = {{harvid|O'Connor|1984}}

|author-link = Thomas H. O'Connor }}

  • {{cite book|author=J. Anthony Lukas |title=Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families|year=1985|publisher=Vintage Books|isbn=978-0-394-74616-6

| ref = {{harvid|Lukas|1985}}

|author-link=J. Anthony Lukas|title-link=Common Ground (Lukas book)}}

  • {{Citation |publisher = Harvard University Press |title = Boston's Immigrants, 1790–1880 |date = 1991 |author = Oscar Handlin |ol=15841847W

| ref = {{harvid|Handlin|1991}}

|author-link = Oscar Handlin }}

  • {{Citation |publisher = Addison-Wesley |title = Rascal King: the Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874–1958 |author = Jack Beatty |date = 1992 |ol= 1708166M

| ref = {{harvid|Beatty|1992}}

|author-link = Jack Beatty }}

  • {{Citation |publisher = University of Arkansas Press |title = The Other Brahmins: Boston's Black Upper Class, 1750–1950 |author = Adelaide M. Cromwell |date = 1994 |ol= 1430545M

| ref = {{harvid|Cromwell|1994}}

}}

  • {{cite book|author=Thomas H. O'Connor |title=Building a New Boston: Politics and Urban Renewal, 1950–1970|year= 1995|publisher= University Press of New England |ol=1737146M

| ref = {{harvid|O'Connor|1995}}

|author-link=Thomas H. O'Connor}}

  • {{Citation |publisher = Basic Civitas Books |location = New York |title = Africana: the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience |date = 1999 |editor = Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates |chapter=Boston |page=286+ |ol=43540M

| ref = {{harvid|Appiah|1999}}

}}

;published in the 21st century

  • {{Citation

|publisher = Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |title = Boston: a Topographical History |edition=3rd |author = Walter Muir Whitehill |date = 2000 |ol=58903M

| ref = {{harvid|Whitehill|2000}}

|author-link = Walter Muir Whitehill }}

  • {{citation |title=Boston City Charter |author=Boston City Council |year=2007 |editor=D. Paul Koch, Jr. |url= http://www.cityofboston.gov/images_documents/2007%20the%20charter%20draft20%20(final%20draft1%20with%20jumps)_tcm3-16428.pdf

| ref = {{harvid|Charter|2007}}

}}

  • {{cite book |author= Stephen Puleo |title= Boston Italians |location= Boston |publisher= Beacon Press |year= 2007 |isbn= 978-0-8070-5036-1 |ref= {{harvid|Puleo|2007}} |url= https://archive.org/details/bostonitaliansst00stev }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Beacon Press |isbn = 9780807051122 |location = Boston |title = Banned in Boston: the Watch and Ward Society's Crusade Against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil |author = Neil Miller |date = 2010

| ref = {{harvid|Miller|2010}}

|author-link = Neil Miller (writer) }}

  • {{citation

|work=Boston Globe |date=February 9, 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130529135720/http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/02/09/boston-biggest-snowstorms/DzYKmJfGEdy7C9Wd7uKmXM/story.html |archive-date= May 29, 2013 |title= Boston's 10 biggest snowstorms |url-status=dead |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/02/09/boston-biggest-snowstorms/DzYKmJfGEdy7C9Wd7uKmXM/story.html

| ref = {{harvid|Snowstorms|2013}}

}}

  • {{citation |title=Grocery Stores in Boston |date=September 2013 |url=http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org/research-maps/research-publications/other |publisher=Boston Redevelopment Authority

| ref = {{harvid|Grocery|2013}}

}}

  • {{cite book|author=Nathaniel Philbrick |title=Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution|year=2013|publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-1-101-62270-4

| ref = {{harvid|Philbrick|2013}}

|author-link=Nathaniel Philbrick}}

  • {{citation |work=Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/07/26/four-centuries-new-england-flops-flubs-and-failures/DtgFai5GcApUlZsSO5R95K/story.html |date=July 26, 2016 |title=Four centuries of Boston flops, flubs, and failures }}
  • {{cite web |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181118151942/http://us-cities.survey.okfn.org/place/boston |url= http://us-cities.survey.okfn.org/place/boston |archive-date= November 18, 2018 |title= Boston, MA |work=U.S. City Open Data Census |publisher=Sunlight Foundation and Open Knowledge International |year=2018 }}
  • {{citation |work=Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/04/24/boston-history-all-chronological-order-needs-home/DgFk9lj73HCIdDfWpX7IxK/story.html |title=Boston's history (all of it, in chronological order) needs a home |date=April 24, 2018 }}

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