Attucks (Crispus) is born.

(ca.) The son of African-American father and Native American parents, Crispus Attucks born Michael Johnson) flees enslavement in Framingham in approximately 1750 and becomes a sailor and ropemaker. He arrives in Boston in Boston in 1770, and soon becomes the first of the five victims killed in the Boston Massacre, and is regarded ass the first casualty of the American Revolution. After lying in state with the other victims at Faneuil Hall, Attucks is buried in the Granary Burying Grounds. An annual ceremony is first held in his honor at Faneuil Hall on March 5, 1858, a memorial to him is installed on Boston Common in 1888,* and March 5th is declared Crispus Attucks Commemoration Day on March 5, 2023.