Timeline for Revolutions By dwaters Dec 19, 1689 English Bill of Rights English Bill of Right Sep 7, 1763 Seven Years War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France Apr 7, 1765 Stamp Act passed by British Parliment as a direct taxation of North American colonists May 7, 1765 Sons of Liberty and others organize to protest and resist the Stamp Act May 7, 1766 Repeal of Stamp Act May 7, 1767 Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists May 7, 1770 Riots in Boston met with violence by British Troops May 7, 1773 Boston Tea Party May 7, 1774 First Continental Congress Jul 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence May 7, 1778 American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris May 7, 1778 A Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a Treaty of Alliance May 7, 1789 Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America May 7, 1789 Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France Jul 7, 1789 Storming of the Bastille, prison and armory in Paris Nov 7, 1789 National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the rights of man May 7, 1791 U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states Jul 7, 1791 Beheading of King Louis XVI Aug 10, 1791 Slave Rebellion in Saint Domingue Jan 7, 1792 French declares war on Austria May 7, 1792 French National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in the colony of Saint Domingue Feb 7, 1793 Slaves of Saint Domingue are emancipated by French authorities to join the French Army and fight the British Oct 9, 1793 France declares war on Great Britian Mar 14, 1794 Toussaint leads troops against the British Apr 6, 1797 French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint May 7, 1798 Toussaint negotiates peace with the British May 7, 1801 War ends between Great Britian and France Jul 22, 1801 Constitution for Haiti Apr 7, 1802 General Lecerc sent by Napolean to subdue colony and re-institute slavery May 7, 1803 French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independence May 7, 1803 New Declaration of war between Great Britian and France May 7, 1804 Napolean crowns himself emperor of France Dec 1, 1804 Jean Jaques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti Oct 7, 1806 U.S. President Jefferson declares economic boycott of Haiti, France, and Great Britian Jan 7, 1808 British end the slave trade May 7, 1808 French occupation of Spain Jun 7, 1810 Declarations of self-govenment in most Latin American colonies May 7, 1813 French Expelled from Spain May 7, 1815 Napolean defeated and French empirereduced in Europe to France alone May 7, 1818 French abolish slave trade May 7, 1823 U.S President Monroe declares doctrine against Europwan interference with the new republics in the Americas known as the Monroe Doctrine