jun 18, 1770 - Crispus Attucks
Description:
"Crispus Attucks is killed by British forces during the Boston Massacre, becoming one of the first colonists to die in the American war for independence.Attucks, a dockworker and merchant seaman, was an African American who may have been an escaped slave or a freeman."
Source:
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/interactive/slavery-united-states/
Added to timeline:
Date:
jun 18, 1770
Now
~ 255 years ago