Assassin’s Creed III shows the Boston Massacre sequence in 1770.
The Boston Massacre took place on March 5, 1770, when British soldiers fired on a crowd in Boston, killing five colonists. Assassin’s Creed III incorporates the event into its historical setting as Haytham Kenway and Charles Lee move through colonial Boston during the game’s opening chapters.
The sequence is part of the game’s broader use of real events from the American Revolution era. It places fictional Assassin and Templar characters alongside historical figures and incidents, but it does not turn the game into a literal reconstruction of every event.
The date is often confused with 1775, the year fighting began at Lexington and Concord and the year associated with the start of the American Revolutionary War. The Boston Massacre happened five years earlier, making 1770 the precise answer.