Tags & Description
1754
Washington battles French on frontier Albany Congress
1754-1763
French and Indian War
1763
Pontiac's Rebellion
1763
Proclamation of 1763
1764
Sugar Act
1765
Quartering Act
1765
Stamp Act
1765
Stamp Act Congress
1766
Declaratory Act
1767
Townshend Acts
1767
New York legislature suspended by Parliament
1768
British troops occupy Boston
1770
Boston Massacre
1770
All Townshend Acts except tea tax repealed
1772
Committees of Correspondence formed
1773
British East India Company granted tea monopoly (Tea Act)
1773
Boston Tea Party
1774
"Intolerable Acts"
1774
Quebec Act
1774
First Continental Congress (calls for abolition of slave trade)
1774
The Association boycotts British goods (Continental Association)
1775
Battles of Lexington and Concord
1775
Second Continental Congress
1775
Battle of Bunker Hill
1775
King George III formally proclaims colonies in rebellion
1775
Failed invasion of Canada
1776
Paine's Common Sense
1776
Declaration of Independence
1777
Articles of Confederation
1777
Battle of Saratoga
1778
Formation of French-American alliance
1781
French and Americans force Cornwallis to surrender at Yorktown
1781
Articles of Confederation put into effect
1783
Treaty of Paris
1785
Land Ordinance
1786
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
1786
Shay's Rebellion
1786
Annapolis Convention
1787
Northwest Ordinance
1787
Constitutional Convention
1788
Ratification of the Constitution