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New taxes on court and customs documents, financial papers, playing cards, dice, pamphlets, newspapers, newspaper advertisements, almanacs, and more for the colonies,
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British troops shoot 5 colonists.
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Parliament passes the Tea Act which sparks rebellion in Boston.
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Patriots raid a British ship in Boston Harbor and throw 342 chests of tea overboard (to the encouraging cheers of delighted crowds).
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Fifty-five members representing every colony but Georgia assemble in Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress. The Congress is not formed in order to revolt or to govern, but to act as a convention of ambassadors who will adopt resolutions and protests.
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British and American forces engage in the first major conflict of the Revolutionary War at Bunker Hill, Massachusetts.The battle is declared a British victory.