Timeline for Revolutions By zach.daly Jan 1, 1689 English Bill of Rights May 19, 1763 Seven Year's Way Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France May 19, 1765 Stamp Act passed by British Parliment as a direct taxation of North American colonists May 19, 1766 Repeal Stamp Act May 19, 1767 Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists May 19, 1770 Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops May 19, 1773 Boston Tea Party May 19, 1774 First Continental Congress May 19, 1776 Declaration of Independence May 19, 1778 American and French Representatives sign two treaties in Paris May 19, 1789 Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America May 19, 1789 Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France May 19, 1789 Storming of the Bastille in Paris May 19, 1789 National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man May 19, 1791 Beheading of King Loius XVI May 19, 1791 Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue May 19, 1791 U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states May 19, 1792 French National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in the colony of Saint Domingue May 19, 1792 France declares was on Austria May 19, 1793 France delcares war on Great Britain May 19, 1793 All slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the French Revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight against the British May 19, 1794 Toussaint leads troops against the British May 19, 1797 French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint May 19, 1798 Toussaint negotiates peace with British May 19, 1801 War ends between Great Britian and France May 19, 1801 Constitution for Haiti May 19, 1802 General Leclerc sent by Napoleon to subdue colony and re-institute slavery May 19, 1803 New declaration of war between Great Britain and France May 19, 1803 French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independence May 19, 1804 Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France May 19, 1804 Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti May 19, 1806 U.S. President Jefferson declares economic boycott of Haiti, France, and Great Britain May 19, 1808 French occupation of Spain May 19, 1808 British end slave trade May 19, 1810 Declarations of self-government in most Latin American colonies May 19, 1813 French expelled from Spain May 19, 1815 Napoleon defeated and French empire reduced in Europe to France alone May 19, 1818 French abolish slave trade May 19, 1823 U.S. President Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas Known as the Monroe Doctrine