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3 days ago · Sir Edmund Andros 's intensely unpopular rule came to a sudden end in 1689 with an uprising sparked by the Glorious Revolution in England. The new king William III established the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1691 to govern a territory roughly equivalent to the modern states of Massachusetts and Maine.
6 days ago · Massachusetts - Revolution, Statehood, History: The opening shots of the American Revolutionary War at the Battles of Lexington and Concord—where the Massachusetts militia known as the minutemen faced their first battle—initiated a new order in Massachusetts and its sister provinces.
1 day ago · Commercial and industrial expansion marked 18th-century Massachusetts and resulted in the rapid settlement of new communities, many spurred by speculation. Between 1692 and 1765, 111 new towns and districts were incorporated, while the population increased to 222,563.
Jun 21, 2024 · Salem witch trials, (June 1692–May 1693), in American history, a series of investigations and persecutions that caused 19 convicted “witches” to be hanged and many other suspects to be imprisoned in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (now Danvers, Massachusetts).
Jun 24, 2024 · The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men).
Jun 30, 2024 · Massachusetts played a pivotal role in the American Revolution, hosting events such as the Boston Tea Party and serving as a center of revolutionary activity. The state was one of the original thirteen colonies to declare independence from British rule in 1776.
6 days ago · The Act of Toleration 1689 granted relief to Nonconformists but Catholic emancipation would be delayed until 1829. News of the Glorious Revolution reached the English colonies in North America in 1689, leading to a revolt in Boston and the dissolution of the Dominion of New England. See also. Democracy in Europe; Footnotes
