Road to Revolution Timeline

French and Indian War

Oct 19, 1754

http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-war
The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies.

Proclamation of 1763

Oct 7, 1763

http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of
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, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.

Stamp Act

Mar 22, 1765

http://www.history.org/history/teaching/tchcrsta.cfm
The Stamp Act was a law that required all colonial residents to pay a stamp tax on virtually every printed paper including legal documents, bills of sale, contracts, wills, advertising, pamphlets, almanacs, and even playing cards and dice.

Townshend Acts

Oct 1, 1767

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.

Boston Massacre

Mar 5, 1770

http://www.bostonmassacre.net/
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.

Tea Act

May 10, 1773

http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/the-tea-act
The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies.

Boston Tea Party

Dec 16, 1773

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston"[2]) was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773.

Intolerable acts

Oct 20, 1774

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts.

Lexington and Concord

Apr 19, 1775

http://www.ushistory.org/us/11c.asp
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9] They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston.

Decloration of Independence

Jul 4, 1776

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies,[2] then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. I