It reportedly began with the false accusations of 
It reportedly began with the false accusations of a wigmaker's apprentice, which supposedly led a crowd to throw snowballs. The first person to die in this incident was Crispus Attucks, and in total five people died out of the three hundred estimated to be in the crowd surrounding Captain Thomas Preston's British troops. For 10 points, identify this 1770 incident named for the New England city where it occurred.
It reportedly began with the false accusations of a wigmaker's apprentice, which supposedly led a crowd to throw snowballs.
{Boston Massacre} [accept reasonable equivalents]