demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor; organized as a protest against taxes on tea | the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings |
| all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge |
| a record or narrative description of past events |
| the aggregate of past events |
| the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future |