The Boston Tea Party at 250: Events mark world-famous event's anniversary

• The legendary act of defiance is a world famous event and its 250th anniversary kicks off nearly eight years of commemorations for the events of the Revolutionary War.

What's happening: The Tea Party Museum holds a reenactment at 8pm tomorrow at its wharf near the historic site on Fort Point Channel.

Before the big tea dump off of the Eleanor and Beagle, the Old South Meeting House will present a reenactment of the Meeting of the Body of the People, the organizing town hall that led the Sons of Liberty to take action.

• If you can't get into the meeting house, join the rabble outside in Downtown Crossing as a town crier relates the news.
• Then march to the former site of Griffin's Wharf to watch the reenactors across the channel.

What's next: 2024 marks the 250th anniversaries of the Coercive Acts, the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia and other steps toward independence in 1774.

• 2025 will be the big sestercentennial year for Massachusetts with the anniversaries of the beginning of the war in Lexington and Concord, Revere's ride, Bunker Hill and Washington's command in Boston.