May –
England and Wales Precipitation totals 151.8 millimetres or 5.98 inches, the wettest May on record and the solitary still-standing record wet month from the eighteenth century.[6]
16 December – a group of American
colonists, dressed as Mohawk Indians, steal aboard ships of the
East India Company and dump their cargo of tea into
Boston Harbor in a protest against British tax policies that became known as the
Boston Tea Party.[5]