Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company holds its first annual parade.

It is held on Boston Common, prior to the company’s first drumhead election of officers. The first military parade in Boston, it is subsequently annually held on the first Monday of June (dubbed “Juneteenth”). A.C. Lyons later writes, “A New York stranger, arriving in Boston just in time to find the old company marching to the Common, said patronizingly, ‘I knew this place was living in the past, but how often does the army of the Revolution go by?’ ‘As often,’ said a Bostonian who heard him, ‘as it is necessary to emphasize who thought up this country in the first place.'”