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American Revolution timeline
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Boston Massacre
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The Boston Tea Party
Boston colonists disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. -
The Old North Church
American poet and ardent abolitionist named Henry Wadsworth Longfellow immortalized Paul Revere and Old North Church in American history and myth. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
First shots fired between American and British troops, on April 19, 1775. The British chose to march to Concord because it was an arms depot. -
Common Sense
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. -
The Declaration of Independence
The formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. -
Battle of Trenton
A small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War which took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey. -
Valley Forge
the military camp in southeastern Pennsylvania,where the American Continental Army spent the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. -
Treaty of Alliance
A defensive alliance between France and the United States of America, formed in the midst of the American Revolutionary War, which promised America of French military support in case of attack by British forces indefinitely into the future. -
The United States In Congress Affembled
Essential to the operations of the army during the next campaign, that the most vigorous measures should forthwith be adopted for forming a body of horse. -
Siege of Yorktown
A victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops and French Army troops, over a British Army commanded. -
Treaty Of Paris
Treaty that officially ended the Revolutionary War. Under the terms of the treaty, Britain recognized the independent nation of the United States of America -
Constitutional Convention
12 of the 13 States Signed and Adopted the Constitution at the Phildelphia Convention.
