Revolutions Timeline By stephani_roberts Jan 1, 1689 English Bill of Rights Jan 1, 1763 Seven Year/s 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 May 13, 1767 Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists May 13, 1770 Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops May 13, 1773 Boston Tea Party May 13, 1774 First Continental Congress May 13, 1776 Declaration of Independence May 13, 1778 American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a Treaty of Alliance May 13, 1789 Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America May 13, 1789 Estates Genral convened for the first time in 174 years in France May 13, 1789 Storming of the Bastille, prison (and amory) in Paris May 13, 1789 National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man May 13, 1791 Beheading of King Louis XVI May 13, 1791 Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue May 13, 1791 U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states May 13, 1792 French National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in the colony of Saint Domignkue May 13, 1792 France declares war on Austria May 13, 1793 France declares war on Great Britain May 13, 1793 All slaves on Saint Domigue emancipation by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight against the British May 13, 1794 Toussaint leads troops against the British May 13, 1797 French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint May 13, 1798 Toussaint negotiates peace with the British May 13, 1801 War ends between Great Britain and France May 13, 1801 Constitution for Haiti May 13, 1802 General Leclere sent by Napoleon to subdue colony and re-institute slavery May 13, 1803 New declaration of war between Great Britain and France May 13, 1803 French withdraw trops; Haitians declare independence May 13, 1804 Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France May 13, 1804 Jean-Jaques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti May 13, 1806 U.S. President Jefferson declares economic boycott of Haiti, France, and Great Britain May 13, 1808 French occupation of Spain May 13, 1808 British end the slave trade May 13, 1810 Declarations of self-government in most Latin American colonies May 13, 1813 French expelled from Spain May 13, 1815 Napoleon defeated and French empire reduced in Europe to France alone May 13, 1818 French abolish slave trade May 13, 1823 U.S. President Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine