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The French and Indian War begins
The French and Indian war began between the French and Great Britain as a means to conquer the other party's territories. Indians were also involved in the dispute over territories. -
Royal Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763 by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. -
Sugar Act
A law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 increasing duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to receive British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. -
Stamp Act
Yet another act performed by the British Parliament for increasing revenue in the American Colonies by making sure the use of stamps and stamped paper for official documents, commercial writings, and various articles, were all being taxed upon. -
Stamp Act Congress
This was a meeting held for the first congress, having to do with the representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; it was the first meeting of the chosen representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a protest against new British taxation -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a physical action by the colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government, dumping tea out of British ships, resulting in concequences, the Intolerable Acts. -
First Continental Congress
First Continental Congress was a group of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies. (All of them except for Georgia). They met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in response to the Intolerable Acts by the British Parliament. -
"Give Me Liberty"
This was a quote from Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Virginia Convention. This quote is very famous, giving an upstanding roar to the colonists through the American Revolution. -
Battles of Lexington & Concord
Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements in the American Revolution. Fought on April 9, 1775, in Lexington and Concord. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between Great Britain and the Thirteen colonies. -
Paul Revere's Ride
Paul Revere’s ride took place on April 18, 1775. Paul was requested to ride into Lexington to meet Samuel Adams and John Hanncock that the British were arriving to prosecute them. Samuel and John both got away, and Paul was held in captivity for a short period of time. -
Fort Ticonderoga
Fort Ticonderoga is located near Lake Champlain. The British used this fort to store munitions and the location helped them to control the waterways to Canada. Benedict Arnold, Ethan Allen, and his Green Mountain Boys set out to overthrow the fort. The British were surprised and captured by Americans. -
Second Continental Congress meets
The Second Continental Congress meeting began with the battle of Lexington and Concord fresh in the past. The New England militia were still stationed outside of Boston trying to drive the British out of Boston. The Second Continental Congress established the militia as the Continental Army to represent the thirteen states. They also promote George Washington as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The British won the battle. British General-Thomas Gage American General George Washington. The battle proved that the colonists going to let the British choose their fate. The colonists did not flee when the British came to Boston. They built massive fortifications at Bunker Hill.1,504 British men killed, and 500 colonists killed. -
"Common Sense" is published
The pamphlet was published annonymously during the heart of the winter in 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, and had the largest sale in the colonies at the time. -
British evacuate Boston
British evacuated Boston because of a bloodless liberation of Boston by the patriots causing British troops and royalists to leave Boston by ship and sailed to Nova Scotia. -
Declaration of Independence announced
Thomas Jefferson began the writing by working on many drafts. After his final draft it was commited to the Continental Congress on June 28. The Continental Congress voted for the Independence and revised it to the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
"The Crisis" is published
The Crisis was published by Paine to revive the revolutionary spirit in the colonists during a time of losses in battles for the patriots. -
Battle of Trenton
The battle between Washington and German Hessians for Trenton, the outcome being the patriots came out on top. -
British defeated at Saratoga
3,700 British soldiers surrender ending the British' plan to split the colonies in two branches. -
Winter at Valley Forge
Two months after the fighting at Saratoga, Washington began to set up his Winter encampment here at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Soldiers built rows of log cabins. In a short time the second largest city in the United States, with a population of twelve thousand men. -
John Paul Jones defeats the Serapins
Jones was a Scottish sailor, and a well known fighter for the colonial army during the American Revolution. Jones was most known for sabotaging the Serapins, a pristige, two-decked royal navy ship. The ship was captured -
Benedict Arnold plans found out
Benedict Arnold married a woman named Peggy Shippen, she began a corraspondance with her old friend Major John Andre, Chief of Intelligence for the British Army. Soon enough, Andre and Arnold were negotiating Arnold's betrayl of the American cause. Of all the talk between the two men, Arnold eventually fully ended up becoming a loyalist and returning to the Britsh forces. -
Cornwallis surrenders
On October 19, 1781, Cornwallis formally surendered 8,000 British solders and seamen to a American force at Yorktown. Cornwallis had motioned his troops in Yorktown and troops of the Continental Army were forced to block the troops from making a land escape. Meanwhile, Washington and his troops joined along with the French and went to take down Cornwallis and his troops.
