American Revolution timeline

  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War
    The French and Indian War was between the colonies of British America and those of France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by Native American allies.
  • Treaty of 1763

    Treaty of 1763
    The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on February 10th 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France, and spain on an agreement to end the seven year wars.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    The Proclamation of 1763 was given by King George III on October 7, 1763, following Great Britain's takeover of French territory in North America after the end of the Seven Years' War. It made it where you could not settle past a certain point. This point was is the appalachain mountains.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    The Stamp Act of 1765 was an Act that Great Britain came up with which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, which cause everything to be taxes on what they printed.
  • Boston massacre

    Boston massacre
    British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily announced by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.
  • Boston tea party

    Boston tea party
    The boston tea party is where the colonists went out and dumped tea into the ocean because there was taxation without representation. which the colonists did not like this rule so they had this rebellion and this was the outcome.
  • Intolerable act

    Intolerable act
    The Intolerable Acts were laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their what they did in the Tea Party protest because of the changes in taxation by the British government.
  • Publication of common sense

    Publication of common sense
    Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 giving the importance of independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord
    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. There were multiple battles and they fought in a lot of different places.
  • Battle of bunker hill

    Battle of bunker hill
    The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was involved in the battle. This is now a tourist attraction spot
  • Declaration of independence

    Declaration of independence
    The United States Declaration of Independence is the rules adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.
  • battle of trenton

    battle of trenton
    The Battle of Trenton was a small but effective battle during the American Revolutionary War, which took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey.
  • Battle of saratoga

    Battle of saratoga
    The Battles of Saratoga marked the main point of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.
  • Valley forge

    Valley forge
    Valley Forge was the third of eight winter camps for the Continental Army's main body, led by General George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War.
  • battle of cowpens

    battle of cowpens
    The Battle of Cowpens was an engagement during the American Revolutionary War fought on January 17, 1781 near the town of Cowpens, South Carolina, This war was fought between Great Britain and the United States..
  • battle of yorktown

    battle of yorktown
    It was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops.
  • treaty of paris

    treaty of paris
    The Treaty of Paris was signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and the United States of America on September 3, 1783, this is what ended the war for good.