1750
1754
British seize Louisbourg
British captured Quebec, Canada
George III crowned king of England
British seize Fort Detroit
1758
1759
1760
1761
Treaty of Paris ends French & Indian War
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation prohibits settlement west of the Appalachians
Sugar Act
Quartering Act
Stamp Act (March)
Repeal of the Stamp Act
Declaratory Act
Townshend Acts (June)
1763
Repeal of most Townshend Duties (April)
1764 1764
1765
o Battle of Fort Necessity; French & Indian War begins
o Albany Plan of Union (June)
“No taxation without representation.” – James Otis (Mass.)
Delegates from seven colonies met in New York City as the
Stamp Act Congress (October)
1766
1767
1770 1770
1772
Tea Act (May) 1773 1773
Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts; March-May) 1774 1774
Battles of Lexington and Concord (19 April) 1775 1775
Boston Massacre (5 March)
Formation of Committees of Correspondence
Boston Tea Party (16 December)
First Continental Congress convened
o Second Continental Congress convened (May)
o Arnold and Allen captured Fort Ticonderoga (May 10)
o Battle of Bunker Hill (17 June)
o Second Continental Congress sent George III the Olive
Branch Treaty (July)
British abandoned Boston (March)
British under General Howe occupied New York (Summer)
British won Battle of Valcour Island (October)
1776 1776
General Howe occupied Philadelphia (September)
1777 1777
British seized Savannah, Georgia (December)
1778 1778
1779
British seized Charleston, South Carolina (May)
British defeated Patriot militia at Camden, SC (August)
Cornwallis defeated Patriots at Guilford Court House, NC (March)
British under Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown
Treaty of Paris ends American War for Independence
1780 1780
1781 1781
o Second Continental Congress learned George III had
rejected the Olive Branch Petition (November)
o Common Sense published by Thomas Paine (January)
o General Henry Knox arrived outside Boston with cannons
from Fort Ticonderoga (January)
o Thirteen Colonies declare independence (July 4)
o Washington defeated Hessians at Trenton (25 December)
o Wealth of Nations published by Adam Smith
o Washington defeated Cornwallis at Princeton (January)
o General Gates defeated Burgoyne at Saratoga (17 October)
o Congress approved Articles of Confederation (November)
o Continental Army wintered at Valley Forge (into 1778)
o United States & France signed a treaty of alliance (6 Feb.)
o George Rogers Clark captured Indiana & Illinois (Spring)
o Spain joined war as an ally of France
o George Rogers Clark recaptured Vincennes (February)
the Netherlands became an ally
o Patriots stopped Cornwallis at Cowpens (January)
o Articles of Confederation ratified (March)
o Washington defeated Cornwallis at Yorktown (18 October)
1783
1786
1787
1790
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Annapolis Convention (September)
Shays’ Rebellion (December)
Northwest Ordinance ((July)
United States Constitution (September 17)