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War between English and French Colonist
England and France were fighting over land rights in America. -
1756 Beginning of the Seven Years War
The British seized a hundreds of ships. -
1758 Threshing Machine
It was used to remove seeds and stalks and husks. Invented in 1758. -
1763 End of the Seven Year War
A treating was signed in Paris Called the Treating Of Paris, France gave up all territories in North America. -
1764 Spinning Jenny Invented
Was one of the key developments of the Industrialization Revolution. -
1765 American Stamp Act
American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
1770 - The Boston Massacre
occurs when British troops fire into a Boston mob, who were demonstrating against British troops at the customs commission. -
1773 Boston Tea Party
colonists revolted against the East India Tea Company. The Colonists were angry with the English Tea Tax. -
1776 Besty Ross created the first American Flag
She didn't get credited until after she died in 1870. -
1776 Declaration Of American Independence
The colonists such as George] Washington wrote a letter to Declare The American Independence -
1780 French troops help Patriot militiamen
French troops help Patriot militiamen fight for independence from Great Britain -
1781 British troops under control by Lord Cornwallis
Lord Cornwallis gains victory in North Carolina. -
1781 General George Washington Siege Cornwallis
General Washington Wins Battle of Yorktown VA. Which was the last battle on American soil of the Revolution war. -
1781 British surrender at Yorktown end of American Revolutionary War.
They expected help from British ships sent from New York. The British ships never arrived. -
1782 British Parliament agrees to the recognition of U.S
The Treaty of Paris is signed between American and British officials in Paris on November 30. -
1783 - Massachusetts Supreme Court
citing the state Bill of Rights “all men are born free and equal.” -
1784 - All children born after this date in 1784 in Rhode Island are free.
Rhode Island's passage of its Emancipation Act provided for the gradual establishment of the right to hold slaves. -
September 11-14, 1786 - Five state delegates at a meeting in Annapolis,
Maryland call for Congress to hold a convention in Philadelphia in order to write a constitution for the thirteen states. -
1788 - Sarah Josepha Hale, American author of the nursery rhyme
“Mary Had a Little Lamb,” and her campaign to officially recognize Thanksgiving as a holiday, is born. -
1792 Coal and Gas used for lighting
Henry Barton, Mayor of London, declared it law to light the streets up with lanterns in the winter. -
1796 The white lotus is a flower citility was a cult
The cult overthrew Manchu Dynasty. -
1801 China's Population reacted 295 million
many people wanted to migrate to California because of high unemployment and poverty in China. -
1840 The opium War
The war was fought between Britain and The Quing Dynasty
