Timeline
| 1763 |
Peace of Paris ends French and
Indian War.
Pontiac’s Rebellion occurs.
Parliament issues the Proclamation
of 1763.
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| 1764 |
Parliament passes the Sugar and
Currency Acts.
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| 1765 |
Parliament passes the Quartering
and Stamp Acts.
The Stamp Act Congress convenes
in New York.
Stamp Act riots and protests spread
throughout colonies.
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| 1766 |
Parliament repeals the Stamp Act
and passes the Declaratory Act.
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| 1767 |
Parliament passes the Townshend
Acts and suspends the New York legislature.
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| 1768 |
British soldiers occupy Boston.
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| 1770 |
Boston Massacre occurs.
Parliament repeals Townshend Acts
but keeps the tax on tea.
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| 1772 |
Samuel Adams forms the committee
of correspondence.
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| 1773 |
Boston Tea Party occurs.
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| 1774 |
Parliament passes the Coercive
or “Intolerable” Acts.
The First Continental Congress
convenes and drafts the Declaration of American Rights.
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| 1775 |
Battle of Lexington and Concord
occurs.
The Second Continental Congress
convenes.
Battle of Bunker Hill occurs.
Paul Revere warns minutemen of
redcoats’ approach in his
Midnight Ride.
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| 1776 |
Thomas Paine writes Common
Sense.
Congress votes for independence;
Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence.
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| 1777 |
Battle of Saratoga brings first
military success for the colonists.
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| 1778 |
France and the United States form
the Franco-American alliance.
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| 1781 |
Washington accepts Cornwallis’
surrender at Yorktown.
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| 1783 |
The Treaty of Paris ends the Revolutionary
War.
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