On what date did the Boston Tea Party take place during the growing colonial resistance to Britain?

The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773, during colonial resistance to British rule.

Members of the Sons of Liberty and other participants boarded tea ships in Boston Harbor and threw East India Company tea into the water. They protested the Tea Act, which allowed the company to sell tea in the colonies under favorable conditions while preserving a tax that many colonists viewed as illegitimate.

The protest followed a large public meeting at the Old South Meeting House. Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused to let the ships leave without unloading their cargo and paying the required duties. That confrontation helped turn the gathering into a dramatic act of resistance.

Britain responded with the Coercive Acts, called the Intolerable Acts by many colonists. These measures intensified the crisis between Britain and the colonies and helped lead to the First Continental Congress in 1774. The Battles of Lexington and Concord followed in April 1775, beginning the Revolutionary War.