Timeline for Revolutions By timetoaster420 Apr 20, 1689 English Bill of Rights Period: Apr 20, 1689 to Apr 20, 1823 1689-1823 Apr 20, 1763 Seven Years' War peace treaty between great britain and france Apr 20, 1765 Stamp Act Apr 20, 1766 Repeal of Stamp Act Apr 20, 1767 Townsend Act Apr 20, 1770 Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops Apr 20, 1773 Boston Tea party Apr 20, 1774 First Continental Congress Apr 20, 1776 Declaration of Independence Apr 20, 1778 American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and Treaty of Alliance Apr 20, 1789 Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America Apr 20, 1789 Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France Apr 20, 1789 Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris Apr 20, 1789 National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the rights of man Apr 20, 1791 Beheading of king louis 16th Apr 20, 1791 slave rebellion in saint domingue Apr 20, 1791 U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states Apr 20, 1792 france declares war on Austria Apr 20, 1792 French National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in the colony of Saint Domingue Apr 20, 1793 France declares war on Great Britain Apr 20, 1793 All slaves on saint domingue emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight against the British Apr 20, 1794 Toussaint leads troops against the British Apr 20, 1797 French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint Apr 20, 1798 Toussaint negotiates peace with the British Apr 20, 1801 War ends between Great Britain and France Apr 20, 1801 Constitution for Haiti Apr 20, 1802 General Leclerc sent by Napoleon to subdue colony and re-institute slavery Apr 20, 1803 New declaration of war between Great Britain and France Apr 20, 1803 French withdraw troops; Haitians declare Independence Apr 20, 1804 Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France Apr 20, 1804 Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti Apr 20, 1806 U.S. President Jefferson declares economic boycott of Haiti, France, and Great Britain Apr 20, 1808 French occupation of Spain Apr 20, 1808 British end the slave trade Apr 20, 1810 Declarations of self-goverment in most Latin American colonies Apr 20, 1813 French expelled from Spain Apr 20, 1815 Napoleon defeated and French empire reduced in Europe to France alone Apr 20, 1818 French abolish slave trade Apr 20, 1823 U.S. President monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the MOnroe Doctrine