Independencia de estados unidos

timeline independence of usa- Valentina Hernandez

By Valentina Hernandez Decimo A

  • 1763

    1763
    The Seven Years War between Britain and France ends. Great Britain had received great military and economic aid from the colonies

  • 1773

    1773
    It took place on December 16, 1773 in Boston, Massachusetts, in which a whole shipment of tea was thrown into the sea. A group of settlers disguised as Indians dumped the cargo of three British ships into the sea. It was an act of protest by the American colonists against Great Britain and is considered a precedent for the War of Independence of the United States.

  • 1774

    1774
    The Settlers' Congress meets the first time against servitude to London in favor of an independent homeland (First Continental Congress)

  • 1775

    1775
    ºOn April 19, English troops leave Boston to prevent the settler rebellion
    ºSecond Continental Congress in Philadelphia, begins to assume the functions of national government, appointing fourteen generals and authorizing the invasion of Canada
    ºIn June, the armies meet at Bunker Hill

  • 1776

    1776
    British General William Howe surrenders and evacuates Boston.

  • 1776

    1776
    Congress resolves that the United Colonies must be free and sovereign states

  • 1776

    1776
    approves the Declaration of Independence of the United States, written by Thomas Jefferson

  • 1777

    1777
    Things began to change when the British Army under General John Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga, in upstate New York. Surrender gave way to the next act; the impetus the colonists needed for their independence.

  • 1778

    1778
    France enters the war supporting the settlers

  • 1779

    1779
    Spain enters the war collaborating with the colonists

  • 1781

    1781
    York site. British troops under General Charles Cornwallis are surrounded in Virginia

  • 1782

    1782
    The Spanish recover Menorca from the English
    recovered by the Duke of Crillón, after 69 years of British rule. Despite this, he gave a military instruction with the force of an ordinance whose first article referred to the Menorcan people.

  • 1783

    1783
    Great Britain recognizes the independence of the United States, Peace of Versailles. The Treaty of Paris, Treaty of Versailles or Peace of Versailles was signed on September 3, 1783 between Great Britain and the United States and ended the War of Independence of the United States.

  • 1787

    1787
    The United States Constitution was drafted at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, signed on September 17, 1787