1754
June – Albany Congress
1763
October – Proclamation of 1763
1764
April – Sugar Act
1765
March – Stamp Act
March – Quartering Act
October – Stamp Act Congress
1767
Townshend Acts
1768
Boston Boycotts begin
1770
March 5th – Boston Massacre
1773
May - Tea Act – gives monopoly of tea to BEIC
Dec – Boston Tea Party
1774
March – Intolerable Acts
Sept – 1st Continental Congress - “we’re denied rights”
1775
March – Patrick Henry, “Give me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech
April 18th – Ride of Paul Revere and William Dawes
April 19th – Lexington and Concord
May 10th – Ethan Allen seizes guns/cannons at Ft. Ticonderoga
May 10th – 2nd Continental Congress – Olive Branch? Etc
June 15th – Washington named commander in Chief
June 17th – Battle of Bunker Hill
June 3rd – Continental Army formed with Washington
November – Montgomery take Montreal
December – Loyalists defeated at Great Canebrake, SC
December – Arnold fails to take Quebec
1776
January – Common Sense published
February – Loyalists defeated at Moore’s Creek, NC
March – British break out of Boston
June – VA’s Dec of Rights and Constitution
July – Declaration of Independence
August – Patriots fight Cherokees
August – Washington defeated at Long Island. Take New York
November – Hessians capture Fort Washington, NY
November – Washington crosses Delaware. Captures Hessians at Trenton
1777
January – Washington wins at Princeton
January – Lafayette arrives in Philadelphia
August – Howe arrives in Maryland
September – British win at Brandywine
September – Burgoyne loses at Freeman , NY
October – Washington defeated at Germantown
October – Burgoyne captured by Gates/Arnold. Victory at Saratoga
December – Valley Forge
1778
February – USA and France sign commercial treaty
March – Howe fired. Replaced by Clinton
July – George Rogers Clark raids western British forts
December – British seize Savannah, GA
1779
February – GW Clark raids in Indiana
Battles – Conduct your own study
September – John Paul Jones captures a British frigate near England
1780
May – Cornwallis capture Charleston, SC
May – Cornwallis victory at Waxhaw Creek, SC
June – French Troops arrive in Rhode Island
August – Cornwallis victory at Camden, SC
September – Spy John Andre arrested
October – America victory at Kings Mountain
1781
January – PA troops mutiny over being unpaid
January – Mel Gibson defeats Lucius Malfoy at Cowpens, SC
March – Articles of Confederation adopted
Battles – Conduct your own research
September – French fleet under De Grasse drives British fleet out of Chesapeake
October – Cornwallis surrounded at Yorktown. Surrenders on the 19th
1782
July – Britain leaves Savannah, GA
November – preliminary peace agreements begin
December – British leave Charleston
1783
September – Treat of Paris
November – British leave New York
December – Washington resigns as Command In Chief
1787
June – US Constitution ratified by 9 states