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The Treaty of 1763
This treaty concludes the Franco-British conflicts of the Seven Years’ War and was signed by representatives of Great Britain and Hanover on one side and France and Spain on the other, with Portugal expressly understood to be included. -
Sugar Act and Stamp Act Controversies
These were acts that the Britain had to repeal because the had been rebelled by the colonists, Colonists acted hostile towards these acts. -
Declaratory Act
In 1766, the Parliament repealed the Stamp Act and simultaneously passed the Declaratory Act, which claimed that Britain had the right to tax the American colonies, which were bound by law to comply. -
Townshend Act, New York Assembly suspended
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. He put the Acts up as a sign of which the Parliament has full authority over all colonists. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a violent event that took place on March 5, 1770. It happened in King Street in Massachusetts. Shots were fired without order by the British soldiers, and would eventually spark a revolution. -
Boston Tea Party
In 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dump 342 chests of tea into the water. Now known as the “Boston Tea Party,” the midnight raid was a protest of the Tea Act of 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to allow to have a monopoly on American tea. -
Revolution begins with fighting at Lexington and Concord
The British had been sketchy about the Colonists in America and decided to confiscate their gunpowder. this eventually sparked the Revolution in which the Americans retaliated and an all-out battle has broken loose.
