American Revolution Timeline

By nash.kincaid

  • sugar act

    sugar act

  • stamp act

    stamp act

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

  • Boston tea party

    Boston tea party

  • the american revolution begins

    the american revolution begins

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    On this day in 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims the independence of a new United States of America from Great Britain and its king. The declaration came 442 days after the first shots of the American Revolution were fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts and marked an ideological expansion of the conflict that would eventually involve France’s intervention on behalf of the Americans.