Timeline of Revolutionary Events

By HaydenWillett

  • Tea Act

    Granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies

  • Sugar Act

    Reduced the taxes imposed by the Molasses Act.

  • Currency Act

    Regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America.

  • Stamp Act

    Imposed a stamp tax on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.

  • Quartering Act

    The act stated that troops could only be quartered in barracks and if there wasn't enough space in barracks then they were to be quartered in public houses and inns.

  • Townsend Acts

    Series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies. (June 15–July 2, 1767)

  • Boston Massacre

    British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob.

  • Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts.

  • Intolerable Acts

    Harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests.

  • 1st Continental Congress Meets

    September 5 to October 26, 1774

  • Lexington and Concord

    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. Results: Strategic American victory, British forces evacuate Boston.

  • The Siege of Boston

    Results: Strategic American victory, British forces evacuate Boston

  • 2nd Continental Congress Meets

    May 10, 1775,

  • Battle of Fort Ticonderoga

    Result: Ticonderoga and Crown Point captured by New England militia.