Timeline for Revolutions By iankinnear33 May 10, 1698 English Bill of Rights May 10, 1763 Seven Years' War Peace Treaty between Great Britian and France May 10, 1765 Stamp Act passed by British Pariament as a direct taxation of North America Colonists May 10, 1765 Sons of Liberty and others organize to protest and resist the Stamp Act May 10, 1766 Repeal of Stamp Act May 10, 1767 Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists May 10, 1770 Riots in Boston met with violence by Britsh troops May 10, 1773 Boston Tea Party May 10, 1774 First Continental Congress May 10, 1776 Declaration of Independence May 10, 1778 American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of AMity and Commerce and a Treaty of Alliance May 10, 1789 Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America May 10, 1789 Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France May 10, 1789 Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris May 10, 1789 National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man May 10, 1791 Beheading of King Louis XVI May 10, 1791 Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue May 10, 1791 U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states May 10, 1792 Frence National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in the colony of Saint Domingue May 10, 1792 France declares war on Austria May 10, 1793 France declares war on Great Britain May 10, 1793 All slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the Frence army and fight against the British May 10, 1794 Toussaint leads troops against the British May 10, 1797 French colonial forces defeated by Toussiant May 10, 1798 Toussiant negotiated peace with the British May 10, 1801 War ends between Great Britian and France May 10, 1801 Constitution for Haiti May 10, 1802 General Leclerc sent by Napoleon to subdue colony and re-institue slavery May 10, 1803 New Declaration of war between Great Britian and France May 10, 1803 French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independence May 10, 1804 Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France May 10, 1804 Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti May 10, 1806 U.S. President Jefferson declares economic boycott of Haiti, France, and Great Britian May 10, 1808 French occupation of Spain May 10, 1808 British end the slave trade May 10, 1810 Declarations of self-government in most Latin American colonies May 10, 1813 French expelled from Spain May 10, 1815 Napoleon defeated and French empire reduced to Europe to France alone May 10, 1818 French abolish slave trade May 10, 1823 U.S. President Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine