Events
Sugar Act (1764)Quartering Act
(May 1765)Stamp Tax
(March 1765)Stamp Act
Congress formed
(Oct. 1765)Parliament repeals
stamp tax, passes declaratory
tax
(March 1766)Townshend
Acts passed
(June 1767)Legislation in
NY suspended
for not following
Quartering Act
(June1767)2 regiments
of Brit troops dispatched
to Boston (1768)Boston Massacre
(1770)1st committee of
correspondence
formed in
Boston
(Nov. 1772)Virg. creates body of
committees of
correspondence as
standing committee
of House of Burg.
(March 1773)BEIC faces bankruptcy,
sells tea to colonists
(May 1773)Boston Tea Party
(Dec. 1773)Parliament passes laws
to punish Boston for BTP
including Boston Port Act
(March 1774)"Intolerable Acts" passed
alongside Quebec Act
(March 1774)First Continental
Congress
meets in Philly
(Sept. 1774)Lexington and
Concord (Apr. 1775)Lord Dunmore issues
proclamation promising
freedom for any slave
who joins Brit (Nov. 1775)Tinconderoga/ crown
point captured
by Amer
(May 1775)Battle of Bunker Hill
(June 1775)Olive Branch Petition
(July 1775)Colonies formally
proclaimed in
Rebellion (Aug. 1775)Brit burn Falmouth, Maine
(Oct. 1775)failed Amer assault
on Quebec
(Dec. 31, 1775)Brit set fire to Norfolk, Virg
(Jan 1776)Evacuation day
(March 1776)Battle @ Moore's Creek Bridge,
S. Carolina (Feb. 1776)Brit invading fleet
@ Charleston Harbor
(June 1776)"Common Sense" by
Thomas Paine comes out
(1776)Richard Henry Lee says
colonies ---> independent
(June 7, 1776)Declaration of Independence
approved by Congress
(July 4 1776)Brit fleet arrives on
coast of NY
(July 1776)Battle of Long Island
(Aug. 1776)Battle of Trenton
(Dec. 26 1776)Battle of Princeton
(Jan 1777)Gen. Arnold saves Ticonderoga
for second time; Battle
of Valcour Island (Oct 1776)Battle at Brandywine Creek
and Germantown (Sept/Oct 1777)Burgoyne surrenders
command @ Saratoga
to Horatio Gates
(Oct. 17 1777)Model Treaty drafted
(June 11 1776)France offers America treaty of
alliance (Feb. 6, 1778)Spain and Holland enter
Revolutionary conflict
against Brit (1779)Catherine the Great forms
the Armed Neutrality (1780)Battle of Monmouth
(June 1778)Rochambeau arrives in
Newport, RI w/ troops
(July 1780)Arnold tries to sell out
West Point to Brit
(Sept 1780)Charleston, SC falls
(Feb. 1780)Nathaneal Greene-
Carolina Campaign
(1781)Battle of King's Mountain
(Oct. 1780)Battle of Cowpen's
(Jan. 1780)Americans check Joseph
Brant and Brit forces in
backcountry Penn/NY
(1779)Treaty of Fort
Stanwix (Nov. 1784)Cornwallis completely surrenders force
at Battle of Yorktown (Oct. 17, 1781)Lord North's Ministry
collapses (March 1782)Preliminary Peace Treaty
signed (Nov. 1782)Treaty of Paris
(Sept. 1783)Periods
France provides supplies, 1/2 of Amer's reg. Armed forces, all of naval strength (1778-1783)Georgia overrun
(1778-1779)George Rogers Clark takes forts
down Ohio Riv. by surprise
(1778-1779)Dark period of American
Revolution for Americans
(1780-1781)(winter
of
1777-78)
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