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    World's oldest regularly run marathon

    For the rowing event, see Boston Rowing Marathon. For the April 15, 2013 bombing, see Boston Marathon bombing.

    The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon race hosted by several cities and towns in greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts, United States. It is traditionally held on Patriots' Day, the third Monday of April. Begun in 1897, the event was inspired by the success of the first marathon competition in the 1896 Summer Olympics. The Boston Marathon is the world's oldest annual marathon and ranks as one of the world's best-known road racing events. It is one of seven World Marathon Majors. Its course runs from Hopkinton in southern Middlesex County to Copley Square in Boston.

    The Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) has organized this event annually since 1897, including a "virtual alternative" after the 2020 road race was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The race has been managed by DMSE Sports since 1988. Amateur and professional runners from all over the world compete in the Boston Marathon each year, braving the hilly Massachusetts terrain and varying weather to take part in the race.

    The event attracts 500,000 spectators along the route, making it New England's most viewed sporting event. Starting with just 15 participants in 1897, the event has grown to an average of about 30,000 registered participants each year, with 30,251 people entering in 2015. The Centennial Boston Marathon in 1996 established a record as the world's largest marathon with 38,708 entrants, 36,748 starters, and 35,868 finishers.

    History

    See also: List of winners of the Boston Marathon

    1. Men Since 1897
    2. Women Since 1966
    3. Men's Wheelchair Since 1975
    4. Women's Wheelchair Since 1977
    5. Men's Handcycle Since 2017
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    The Boston Marathon was first run in April 1897, having been inspired by

    Travel on an amazing journey to discover key events in the history of Massachusetts, from earliest times to the present day.

    Each color represents a theme in the story.

    CommerceConflictCulturePoliticsScienceSports


    A selection of important moments in U.S. history helps show the bigger picture and highlights the influence that Massachusetts has had on the nation and beyond.


    A series of QR codes run across the timeline, each one representing a different century over 400 years of history. Click on the links or QR codes to be transported to a playlist of videos, made by students, that tell these timeline stories in their own words.

    Use these blank timeline templates to complete the Mixed Up Massachusetts activity detailed on page 6 of the Educator’s Guide.

    An Ancient Land

    Massachusetts is an ancient land. People move into North America’s northeast after an ice age, which shapes its distinctive coastline. They hunt caribou and small animals. Adapting to their environments, humans hunt in the forests and fish the abundant waterways. Later, people will live in villages and start growing crops.

    About 12,000 years ago

    Native People

    Native people live in Quonehassit harbor, site of modern-day Boston, building huge weirs to trap fish. Massachusett, Nipmuc, and Wampanoag people are among Native groups, whose complex societies often include female elders. “Massachusetts” is a Native word thought to mean “near the great hills,” from which the state gets its name.

    About 5,000 years ago

    John Smith

    John Smith, an early leader of an English settlement in Virginia, sails from Maine to Cape Cod, exploring the coastline. He names the region “New England,” reporting that it is blessed with an “excellent climate” and promotes it as an ideal location for colonization. European fishermen had visited the region for decades, but did not settle.

    1614

    Disease outbreaks

    Native villages along the New England coast are virtually wiped out at

            261. Numbers have a funny way of defining us in our lives. They make up the day we're born. They make up which grade level we're at in school. They tell you if you can afford to buy that meal or pay your rent this month. Sometimes they even become a symbol of a moment that defined the rest of your life.
            When 261 was given to Kathrine Switzer at the 1967 Boston Marathon she had no idea she was about to become the subject of the picture that changed the face of marathons.


    In Boston, Massachusetts, April 19 is a special day known as Patriot’s Day. This holiday commemorates the American patriots who fought the British in the Battles of Lexington and Concord. These were the first battles of what came to be known as the American Revolutionary War. In 1894 the holiday was established as not only to honor that day but also the Baltimore Riot of 1861, which was the first bloodshed of the American Civil War. To honor these tremendous events full of turmoil and remorse there would be re-enactments of the battles and significant events such as Paul Revere and William Dawes' Midnight Rides.

    In 1897 began the Boston Marathon, now the most famous event of Patriot's Day. A year prior, the Olympic Games had returned and with them, a new event called the marathon. When American athletes came back to the states they recollected this event and soon the holiday organizers decided that a marathon in their city would be an excellent way to honor the long struggle for liberty that both Americans and Athenians had suffered through.

    Almost seventy years after the Boston Marathon was established rose two women, whose struggles in participating and being recognized in said marathon would garner another outstanding moment in the long and grueling history of liberty and equality in America.

    Kathrine Virginia Switzer, more commonly known as Kathy was born on January 5, 1947, in Amberg, Germany presumably on an American mili

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