Paul Revere
American silversmith and Patriot in the American Revolution (1735–1818)
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18th century
- 1734December 21 – Paul Revere, American silversmith, engraver, and Patriot in the American Revolution (d. 1818)source
- 1735January 1 – Paul Revere, American silversmith and patriot (d. 1818)source
- 1755September 18 – Two slaves, Mark and Phyllis, are publicly executed for the poisoning murder of their master, John Codman in front of a large crowd outside the Middlesex County Courthouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Phyllis is burned to death. Mark's execution by hanging is made as an example to other African slaves in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. His body is transported to Charlestown Common in what is now Somerville and displayed on a gibbet for more than 20 years. In 1798, Paul Revere mentions in his memoir that his famous ride of April 18, 1775, started when he first spotted British Army officers at a site "nearly opposite where Mark was hung in chains", I saw two men on Horse back, under a Tree".source
- 1773October 10 – Paul Revere marries Rachel Walker, his second wife.source
- 1775April 18 – American Revolution: Paul Revere and William Dawes, instructed by Dr. Joseph Warren, ride from Boston to Lexington to warn John Hancock and Sam Adams that British forces are coming to take them prisoner and to seize colonial weapons and ammunition in Concord.source