AH1 Timeline

Proclamation

Oct 7, 1763

Was a proclamation issued on 7 October of 1763 by the King of England George III as a result of the acquisition by Great Britain of the French territory in North America after the end of the Seven Years' War

Intolerable Acts

Period: Mar 31, 1774 to Jun 22, 1774

Term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.

Common Sense published

Jan 10, 1776

Written by Thomas Paine in advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.

Declaration of Independence

Jul 4, 1776

Thirteen american colonies regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states.