Seven Years' War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France
Stamp Act passed by British Parliament as a direct taxation of North American colonists Sons of Liberty and others organize to protest and resist the Stamp Act
Repeal of Stamp Act
Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists
Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops
Boston Tea Party
First Continental Congress
Declaration of Independence
American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a Treaty of Alliance
Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America
Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France
Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris
National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man
Beheading of King Louis XVI
Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue
U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states
French National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in the colony of Saint Domingue
France declares war on Austria
France declars war on Great Britain
All Slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight aagainst the British
Toussaint leads troops against the British
French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint
Toussaint negotiates peace with the British
War ends between Great Britain and France
Constitution for Haiti
General Leclerc sent by Napoleon to subdue colony and re-institute slavery
New declaration of war between Great Britain and France
French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independence
Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France
Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himselft emperor of Haiti
U.S. President Jefferson declares economic boycott of Haiti, France, and Great Britain
French occupation of Spain
Bristish end the slave trade
Declaration of self-government in most Latin American colonies
French expelled from Spain
Napoleon defeated and French empire reduced in Europe to France alone
French abolish slave trade
U.S. President Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, know as the Monroe Doctrine