History Events in Boston

Check out happening history events all around Boston, MA

Zarna Garg

 Sun, 17 May at 10:00 pm The Wilbur

Boston Speaker Series: Boris Johnson

 Mon, 26 Oct at 07:00 pm Boston Symphony Hall

Mother's Day High Tea at The Parker House

 Sun, 10 May at 12:00 pm Parker's Restaurant

Boston Oddities & Curiosities Expo 2026

 Sat, 02 May at 05:00 am Hynes Convention Center

Tall Ships 2026 Bus Trip

 Tue, 14 Jul at 08:40 am Boston Harbor, Boston, Ma

Boston Tall Ships Lunch Cruise - SOLD OUT!

 Sun, 12 Jul at 06:30 am Seaport District Boston

BOSTON HARBOR SAILING TOUR of the TALL SHIPS

 Mon, 13 Jul at 08:00 am Boston Harbor

Cape Codder: Boston, Newport, Martha's Vineyard

 Mon, 15 Jun at 09:00 am Boston, Massachuesetts

Parade of Sail Reservation On The 1877 Tall Ship ELISSA

 Sat, 11 Jul at 07:00 am Boston Harbor USD 264

Salute To Sunset Party On The 1877 Tall Ship ELISSA

 Mon, 13 Jul at 07:00 pm Boston Harbor USD 264

Operation Mincemeat at Emerson Colonial Theatre Boston

 Tue, 13 Oct at 07:00 pm Emerson Colonial Theatre Boston

Film: Beam Me Up, Sulu

 Fri, 15 May at 06:30 pm Museum of Science, Boston

Free Film: Profiles of Boston: Portraits from the Heart of Chinatown

 Sat, 16 May at 04:30 pm Paramount Center

Boston 101 History Tour

 Sat, 04 Apr at 11:00 am Park Street & Tremont Street USD 23 to 32

Crime Tour

 Fri, 01 May at 07:00 pm Atlantic Avenue/ Milk Street USD 45

Lucy Wightman - Princess Cheyenne: My Life as Boston's Most Famous Stripper

 Wed, 06 May at 06:00 pm Boston Public Library - Central Library Free

'Science Friday' Live with Ira Flatow

 Mon, 04 May at 06:30 pm WBUR CitySpace USD 0 to 34

Founding Mothers: Women of the Revolution

 Mon, 11 May at 05:30 pm Old North Church Free

Gibson & The Garden: Boston's Victorian Promenade 2026

 Sat, 09 May at 10:00 am Gibson House Museum & Boston Public Garden Free

Victorian Afternoon Tea

 Sun, 10 May at 12:00 pm Gibson House Museum USD 45 to 90

National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America

 Tue, 05 May at 07:00 pm John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Free

Declarations Providence

 Sun, 28 Jun at 03:00 pm Old South Church in Boston USD 23 to 66

Lectures on Tap -How Berkshire Farmers Helped Define the First Amendment

 Tue, 05 May at 06:30 pm Back Bay USD 39

Declarations Boston

 Sat, 27 Jun at 07:00 pm Old South Church in Boston USD 23 to 66

Historically Black Phrases Live starring jarrett hill and Tre’vell Anderson

 Thu, 18 Jun at 07:00 pm WBUR CitySpace USD 0 to 29

WALKING TOUR! To vax or not to vax: smallpox in early Boston

 Sun, 17 May at 02:30 pm Outside of Park Street Station USD 0 to 13

Title Town in the West End: Presented by Boston Sports Tours

 Sat, 02 May at 01:00 pm Government Center USD 13

North End to Charlestown with Special Guest Architect and Bridge Designer

 Sat, 30 May at 10:00 am BCYF Mirabella Pool USD 0 to 29

Boston Witchcraft Tour

 Sat, 04 Apr at 01:00 pm 24 Beacon St USD 23 to 32

Juneteenth Celebration

 Thu, 04 Jun at 05:30 pm Nightingale Community Garden Free

Matisse Across the Atlantic: From Paris to American Modernism

 Tue, 05 May at 06:00 pm French Library / Alliance Française of Boston & Cambridge USD 22 to 28

Waterfest 2026

 Sat, 20 Jun at 11:00 am Metropolitan Waterworks Museum Free

Book Talk: Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom

 Thu, 14 May at 06:00 pm Museum of African American History: Boston Campus Free

Film Screening and Q/A Six Locked Doors : The legacy of Cocoanut Grove

 Sat, 16 May at 02:00 pm Boston Public Library Free

The Long Legacy: The Cost and Continuance of Indigenous Resistance

 Thu, 28 May at 05:30 pm Boston Public Library - Central Library Free

Crime Tour 2026 Boston Detective Tours

 Thu, 21 May Atlantic Avenue/ Milk Street USD 45

The Monuments of Paris: Rewriting Family History with Violaine Huisman

 Tue, 12 May at 06:00 pm French Library / Alliance Française of Boston & Cambridge USD 7 to 10

Boston Family Day: Exploring Haitian History with Jean Appolon

 Sat, 11 Apr Museum of African American History: Boston Campus Free

Boston Salem & Cape Ann

 Thu, 16 Jul at 08:00 am Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Network for ALL Youth Empower Symposium (YES)

 Sat, 20 Jun at 10:00 am Franklin Park Free

Friends of the Harborwalk: Exploring Castle Island

 Thu, 18 Jun at 06:00 pm 2080 William J Day Blvd USD 0 to 13

Brink’s Robbery tour along with Waves of Molasses and a Donneybrook

 Sat, 16 May at 10:00 am BCYF Mirabella Pool USD 0 to 18

Remnants of Urban Renewal Walking Tour

 Sat, 16 May at 11:00 am The West End Museum USD 13

Innovation Trail Walking Tour (Special Boston Harborfest Edition)

 Thu, 02 Jul at 04:00 pm Irish Famine Memorial Free

Music of the Loyalists

 Sun, 24 May at 01:00 pm The Shirley-Eustis House USD 34

Wild Times in the West End: Exhibit Opening and Talk

 Wed, 03 Jun at 06:00 pm The West End Museum Free

Book Talk & Signing: Something Worth Saving

 Wed, 20 May at 05:30 pm Museum of African American History: Boston Campus Free

WALKING TOUR! 1630: From Shawmut to Boston

 Thu, 21 May Outside of Park Street Station USD 0 to 13

Battle of Bunker Hill Tour

 Fri, 01 May at 11:00 am Atlantic Avenue/ Milk Street USD 34

Our Place Theatre Presents:Celebrating the Stories of Those Who Came Before

 Sat, 02 May at 02:00 pm Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church Sanctuary Free

Queer History West End Exhibit Opening

 Wed, 17 Jun at 06:00 pm The West End Museum Free

Early New England Witchcraft Collections Tour at the CLA

 Fri, 23 Oct at 12:00 pm 14 Beacon St Free

Road to 250 Trivia Nights at Spy Bar

 Wed, 01 Apr at 06:00 pm Spy Bar Free

Jonathan Goldman “Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York”

 Sun, 03 May at 06:00 pm East End Books Boston Seaport USD 0 to 38

Patriot Fife and Drum

Sat, 23 May at 01:00 pm 19 North Sq, Boston, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02113

Colonial Carving

 Wed, 06 May at 06:00 pm Makers Gallery Boston USD 215

Friends of the Harborwalk: Exploring Castle Island

 Thu, 16 Jul at 06:00 pm 2080 William J Day Blvd USD 0 to 13

Harry “Bucky” Lew: An Early Black History of Basketball

 Sat, 02 May at 11:00 am The West End Museum USD 13

Architecture in Depth Tour of the Shirley-Eustis House

 Thu, 23 Apr at 02:00 pm The Shirley-Eustis House USD 23

Boston Trivia Night

 Thu, 26 Mar Pennyweight Hotel Boston, Curio Collection by Hilton USD 13

Collective Futures Fund x Accelerator: Info Session and Artist Talk

 Wed, 13 May at 06:00 pm Tufts University Art Galleries Free

Tour of the Brim-DeForest Library at American Ancestors

 Sat, 09 May at 11:00 am 97 Newbury St, Boston, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02116

Thomas Townsend Memorial Preservation Lecture: Preservation Is Political

 Fri, 15 May at 05:30 pm The Shirley-Eustis House USD 29

Rebuilding Shattered Worlds: Book Talk and Panel

 Thu, 04 Jun at 06:00 pm The West End Museum USD 13

Don't Talk About Joe Mac with Author Spring Toledo

 Thu, 11 Jun at 06:00 pm The West End Museum USD 13

Maritime Collections Tour at the Congregational Library & Archives

 Fri, 26 Jun at 12:00 pm 14 Beacon St Free

COVID Diagnosed the System: Lessons from the Pandemic in MA prisons

 Fri, 29 May at 05:00 pm 6 Gaston St Free

Second Saturdays - Beyond Gravity: Moving Water Uphill

 Sat, 09 May at 01:00 pm Metropolitan Waterworks Museum Free

Walking the Road to Resilience: H.E.R.O. reading of Frederick Douglass

 Sat, 19 Sep at 11:00 am Frederick Douglass Peace Garden Free

Civil War

 Sat, 26 Sep at 10:00 pm 986 Blue Hill Ave USD 25

Sermons of Independence at the Congregational Library & Archives

 Fri, 17 Jul at 12:00 pm 14 Beacon St Free

Church Cookbooks Collections Tour at the Congregational Library & Archives

 Fri, 21 Aug at 12:00 pm 14 Beacon St Free

The Freedom Trail: Enemies to this Country

 Sat, 02 Jul at 11:30 am Faneuil Hall Visitor Center Free

Congregationalism in Asia Collections Tour at the CLA

 Fri, 22 May at 12:00 pm 14 Beacon St Free

Boston's Churches Collections Tour at the Congregational Library & Archives

 Fri, 18 Sep at 12:00 pm 14 Beacon St Free

Boston Crime Tour

 Sat, 25 Apr 408 Atlantic Ave USD 28

Art & Architectural Historic Tour of Beacon Hill

 Wed, 10 Dec at 10:00 am The Hidden Art Gallery USD 50 to 301

Explore Boston with our epic scavenger hunt adventure!

 Wed, 23 Oct at 07:00 am Public Garden USD 9 to 16

MA250 Special Exhibit: Mary Baker Eddy and Her Revolutionary Legacy

 Thu, 16 Apr at 10:00 am Mapparium® globe in the How Do You See the World?® experience Free