what was the date of the boston massacre
Paul Revere, the American patriot who warned that the British were coming, engraved this depiction of the Boston Massacre. March 5, 1770. Tensions between the American colonists and the British were already running high in the early spring of 1770. Late in the afternoon, on March 5, a crowd of jeering Bostonians slinging snowballs gathered around a small group of British soldiers guarding the Boston Customs House.