Atlantic Revolutions By sdiyorio Jan 1, 1689 English Bill of Rights May 11, 1763 Seven Years' War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France May 10, 1765 Stamp Act passed by British Parliament as a direct taxation of North American colonists May 12, 1765 Sons of Liberty and others organize to protest and resist the Stamp Act May 11, 1766 Repeal of Stamp act May 11, 1767 Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists May 11, 1770 Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops May 11, 1773 Boston Tea Party May 11, 1774 First Continental Congress May 11, 1776 Declaration of Independence May 11, 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 11, 1789 Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France May 12, 1789 Storming of the Bastille,prison (and armory) in Paris May 13, 1789 National Constituent Assembly and French Delcaration of the Rights of Man May 11, 1791 Beheading of King Louis XVI May 11, 1791 U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states May 14, 1791 Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue May 11, 1792 French National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in colony of Saint Domingue May 11, 1792 France declares war on Austria May 11, 1793 France declares war on Great Britain May 11, 1793 All slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight the British May 11, 1794 Toussaint leads troops against the British May 11, 1797 French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint May 11, 1798 Toussaint negotiates peace with the British May 11, 1801 Constitution for Haiti May 11, 1801 War ends between Great Britain and France May 11, 1802 General Leclerc sent by Napolean to subdue colony and re-institute slavery May 11, 1803 New declaration of war between Great Britain and France May 11, 1803 French withdraw troops; Haitians delcare independence May 11, 1804 Napolean crowns himself emperor of France May 11, 1804 Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti May 11, 1806 U.S. President Jefferson declares economic boycott of Haiti,France and Great Britain May 11, 1808 French occupation of Spain May 11, 1808 British end the slave trade May 11, 1810 Declarations of self-govenment in most Latin American colonies May 11, 1813 French expelled from Spain May 11, 1815 Napolean defeated and French empire reduced in Europe to France alone May 11, 1818 French abolish slave trade May 11, 1823 U.S. President Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine