Revolution Timeline

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  • End of the French and Indian War

    End of the French and Indian War
    This was a seven-year war 1754-1763
    The seven year-war eneded with the signing of the treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris in February 1763
  • Quartering Act of 1765

    Quartering Act of 1765
    The colonists felt that the Quartering Act of 1765 violated the 1689 English Bill of Rights. In 1766 1,500 British soliders sailed in New York Harbor. The Quartering Act was one in a series of events that caused the Amerocan Revolution
  • Stamp Act of 1765

    Stamp Act of 1765
    The Stamp Act in 1765 a tax was passed by Great Britain known as the Stamp Act. This law required all colonists to pay taxes to Great Britain on all of the printed materials that they used, newpapers.magazines, and even play cards.
  • Stamp Act Congress 1765

    Stamp Act Congress 1765
    The Stamp Act of Congress of the American Colonies was ameeting help October 7 and 25 1765 in New York consisting of repressentives from some of the British colonies in North America, it was the first gathering of elected representativies from several of the American colonies to devise
  • Boston Massacre 1770

    Boston Massacre 1770
    The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5,170 on The Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. The conflict energized anti-Britain sentiment and paved the way for the American Revolution.
  • Boston Tea Party 1771

    Boston Tea Party 1771
    The Boston Tea Party was a politician that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists ,ffrustrated and angry at Britian for imposing taxation without representation.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    The Royal Proclamation was issued October 7, 17763 by King George. This Proclamtion rendered worthless all land grants given by the government to British subjects who fought for the Crown against France.
  • Tea Act of 1773

    Tea Act of 1773
    The Tea act the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. The Act passed by Parliament on May 10,773 granted tthe British East India company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies.
  • Coercive (Intolersble) Act 1774

    Coercive (Intolersble) Act 1774
    The Intolerable Acts was the term invented by 19th century historians to refer to a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774.
  • First Continental Congress 1774

    First Continental Congress 1774
    The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, fromSeptmeber 5, to October 26. 1774.
  • Battles of Lexington and Concod1775

    Battles of Lexington and Concod1775
    The Battle of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagments of the American Revolutionary War
  • Second Continental and Concord 1775

    Second Continental and Concord 1775
    The Second Continental and Concord Congess met May 10,1775 to plan further respones if the British governmenthad to repealed or modified the acts.
  • Southern Campaign 1775-1782

    Southern Campaign 1775-1782
    The Southern theater of the American Revolunionary was a central area of operations in North America in the second half og the American Revolutionary War.
  • New York Campaign (Battle of Long Island) 1776

    New York Campaign (Battle of Long Island) 1776
    The Battle of Long Island is also known as the Battle of Brooklyn and the Battle of Brooklyn Heights. August 27,1776- August 30.1776. British victory, The British forces capure New York City and Long Island from the Continental Army.
  • Battle of Princeton 1777

    Battle of Princeton 1777
    The battle of Princeton was a battle of the American War,fought near Princeton, New Jersey on January 3,1777. Lord General Charles Corwallis had left 1,400 British troops command og Lietutenant colonel Charles Mawhood in Princeton
  • Battle Of Saratoga 1777

    Battle Of Saratoga 1777
    The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.
  • Articles of Confederstion 1777

    Articles of Confederstion 1777
    It was approved after much debate by the Second Continental Congress on Novermber 15 1777 and sent for ratification.
  • Ratification of the Constitution 1778

    Ratification of the Constitution 1778
    New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last necessary to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land.
  • Battle Of Yorktown 1781

    Battle Of Yorktown 1781
    The Siege of Yorktown also known as the Battle of Yorktown the surrwnder st Yorktown. German Battle or Siege of Little York ending October 19,1781
  • Constitutional Convention 1787

    Constitutional Convention 1787
    The Constitutional Convention took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787 in the old Pennsylvania State House later known as Independence Hall.