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The first permanent settlement of the area which would eventually become the 13 colonies was founded.
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In Boston, a small group of British sentries that were threatened and harassed by a crowd fired and killed five people,
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The HMS Gaspee was attacked at set fire to by a group of Sons of Liberty members.
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The committees of correspondence were smaller governments created and organized by the Patriot leaders of the colonies. They shared their plans with each other.
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A group of Bostonians disguised as Native Americans boarded ships filled with boxes of tea in the Boston harbor and dumped around $13,000 worth of tea into the harbor.
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56 delegates from all of the colonies except for Georgia gather in Philadelphia, called by the Committees of Correspondence to respond to the Intolerable Acts.
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The Revolutionary War begins at the first battle, the battle of Lexington, commences.
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The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson and edited and revised by the other members of Congress. On July 4, Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.
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The Revolutionary War ends as troops under General Cornwallis surrender in the Battle of Yorktown, definitively ending the war.
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The U.S. constitution is adopted as soon as New Hampshire ratifies it, uniting all 13 colonies.
