American Revolution Timeline

American Revolution events

Period: Jul 1, 1760 to Jul 1, 1780

Stamp Act

Mar 22, 1765

Passed by the British parliament it was created as a tax on all american colonists and required them to be taxed on all paper items.

Gaspee Affair

Jun 9, 1772

<a href='http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/gaspee.htm' > A ship on the outside of Newport was on its way to Providence when its Captain steered the ship into shallow waters until it arrived at a area called Gaspe Point. A plan created by John brown with a group of fifty five men and later that day they surrounded the ship plundered its supplies and dragged the crew to the shore while the raiders burned the ship.

Boston Tea Party

Nov 29, 1773

A act of revolt were the colonists dumped one million dollars worth of tea into the harbor after the British troops had started to station in Boston.

Committees of Correspondence

Dec 16, 1773

The Committees were created to take action against Great Britain. Many of them were formed by the legislatures of the respective colonies.

Coercive Acts

Jun 1, 1774

The Coercive acts or known as the intolerable acts included the Boston port act the Quartering act the Administration of Justice Act and the Massachusets Government Act and they were called this because the colonists found these laws impossible to meet.

Quebec Act

Jun 22, 1774

This act stated that anytime someone was being charged of a crime against Great Britain they were forced to have the trial in Quebec.

First Continental Congress

Oct 26, 1774

. The first continental congress was made in carpenters hall and the seat of carpenters hall was the pensylvania congress. This is where they talked about problems in the colonies and eventually this is where discussion about the revolution occured.

Protest of Stamp Act

Mar 22, 1775

The colonists did not approve of the Stamp act due to the high taxes on everyday items like all paper items and they revolted by attacking Stamp distributer houses and b sending former complaints to Parliament.

Battles of Lexington and Concord

Apr 15, 1775

General Thomas Gage General Thomas Gage is given orders to take aggresive action against the colonials and was reccomended to arrest Massachusetts Provincial congress. He then decides to confiscate supplies at concord.

Second Continental Congress

May 10, 1775

Members of the second continental congress met in Philadelphia house of state and members that attended were Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin and John Hancock and there they discussed the Battles of Lexington.

George Washington Appointed General

Jun 9, 1775

George Washington was picked out of a limited amount of deligates including John Hancock but was chosen because of his military skill and his high political recommendation from virginia.

Battle of Bunker Hill

Jun 17, 1775

Started on the Charlestown penninsula in the northern side of Boston Harbor and was between British troops and the continental army. The result of the battle is the victory for the british driving out the american colonists.

Olive Branch Petition

Jul 5, 1775

Created by John dickeson it was created for an attempt of the rights of the colonists while still maintaining there loyalty to the British.

Paul Revere's Ride

Aug 19, 1775

. The night Paul Revere left after arranging the plan of two lanterns by and one by land and after recieving this information he left for Concord.

Proclamation for suppressing Rebellion and Sedition

Aug 23, 1775

Proclamation Stated that Colonies that showed rebellion openly were o be severely punished or if no information was shared about rebellion then the colonist would also be punished.

Common Sense Published

Jan 10, 1776

published in 1776 written by Thomas Paine talked about the authority of Great Britain and challenged British government and royal monarchy. This document is important because it was the first example of openly asking for independence.

British Evacuate Boston

Mar 17, 1776

After the American colonists had siezed control of fort Ticonderoga the British relaized the Boston had no defences and immedialaty borded there ships and left.

Decleration of independence

Jun 28, 1776

<a href='http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html' > The decleration of Independence was created by Thomas Jefferson between the dates June 11 and June 28. The decleration talked about human rights and independence from there kings and the political rights the people deserved.

Writing of Declaration of Independence

Jul 4, 1776

l The declaration talked about life liberty and the pursuit of happieness and this was written by Thomas Jefferson and the first to sign it was John Hancock.

British Pulled out of Virginia

Aug 6, 1776

The British left when John Murray retired from the goveners paace in williamsburg forcing without the leader of the british army to leave and regroup.