Timeline for Revolutions By blakeluedtke May 6, 1689 English Bill of Rights May 6, 1756 Stamp Act passed by British Parliament as a direct taxation of North American colonists May 6, 1763 Seven Years' War Peace Treaty between Great Britian and France May 6, 1765 Sons of Liberty and others organize to protest and resist the Stamp Act May 6, 1766 Repeal of Stamp Act May 6, 1767 Townsend Act, new revenue on North American colonists May 6, 1770 Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops May 6, 1773 Boston Tea Party May 6, 1774 First Continental Congress May 6, 1776 Declaration of Independents May 6, 1778 American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a Treaty of Alliance May 6, 1789 Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America May 6, 1789 Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France May 6, 1789 Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris May 6, 1789 National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man May 6, 1791 Beheading of King Louis XVI May 6, 1791 Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue May 6, 1791 U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states May 6, 1792 French National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in the colony of Saint Domingue May 6, 1792 France declares war on Austria May 6, 1793 France declares war on Great Britain May 6, 1793 All slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight against the British May 6, 1794 Toussaint leads troops against the British May 6, 1797 French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint May 6, 1798 Toussaint negotiates peace with the British May 6, 1801 War ends between Great Britain and France May 6, 1801 Constitution for Haiti May 6, 1802 General Leclerc sent by Napolean to subdue colony and re-instittute slavery May 6, 1803 French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independents May 6, 1804 Napolean crowns himself emperor of France May 6, 1804 Jean-jacques Desslines crowns himself emperor of Haiti May 6, 1806 U.S. President Jefferson declares economic boycott of Haiti, France, and Great Britain. May 6, 1808 French occupation of Spain May 6, 1808 British end slave trade May 6, 1810 Declarations of self-government in most Latin American colonies May 6, 1813 French expelled from Spain May 6, 1815 Napoleon defeated and French empire reduced in Europe to France alone May 6, 1818 French abolish slave trade May 6, 1823 U.S. President Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americans, known as the Monroe Doctrine