Revolutions Timeline By abs1894 Jan 1, 1689 English Bill of Rights English Bill of Rights Jan 1, 1763 Seven Years' War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France Jan 1, 1765 Stamp Act passed by British Parliament as a direct taxation of North American colonists Jan 1, 1765 Sons of LIberty and others organize to protest and resist the Stamp Act Jan 1, 1766 Repeal of Stamp Act Jan 1, 1767 Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists Jan 1, 1770 Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops Jan 1, 1773 Boston Tea Party Jan 1, 1774 First Continental Congress Jan 1, 1776 Declaration of Independence Jan 1, 1778 American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a Treaty of Alliance Jan 1, 1789 Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America Jan 1, 1789 Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France Jan 1, 1789 Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris Jan 1, 1789 National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man Jan 1, 1791 Beheading of King Louis XVI Jan 1, 1791 Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue Jan 1, 1791 U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states Jan 1, 1792 French National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in the colony of Saint Domingue Jan 1, 1792 France declares war on Austria Jan 1, 1793 France declares war on Great Britain Jan 1, 1793 All slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight against the British Jan 1, 1794 Toussaint leads troops against the British Jan 1, 1797 French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint Jan 1, 1798 Toussaint negotiates peace with the British Jan 1, 1801 War ends between Great Britain and France Jan 1, 1801 Constitution for Haiti Jan 1, 1802 General Leclerc sent by Napoleon to subdue colony and re-institute slavery Jan 1, 1803 New declaration of war between Great Britian and France Jan 1, 1803 French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independence Jan 1, 1804 Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France Jan 1, 1804 Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti Jan 1, 1806 U.S. President Jefferson declares economic boycott of Haiti, France, and Great Britain Jan 1, 1808 French occupation of Spain Jan 1, 1808 British end the slave trade Jan 1, 1810 Declarations of self-government in most Latin American colonies Jan 1, 1813 French expelled from Spain Jan 1, 1815 Napoleon defeated and French empire reduced in Europe to France alone Jan 1, 1818 French abolish slave trade Jan 1, 1823 U.S. President Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine