TIL that tea parties weren’t invented until the 1830s; which means the 1773 Boston Tea Party wasn’t known by that name until more than 60 years after the event. At the time it was referred to as “the destruction of the tea”.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11674844



Submitted March 23, 2015 at 09:19PM by blaiq http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/300sw4/til_that_tea_parties_werent_invented_until_the/