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British troops in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were there to stop demonstrations against the Townshend Acts and keep order, but instead they provoked outrage.
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340 chests of British East India Company Tea were dumped into Boston Harbor by the Sons of Liberty.
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Paul Revere was sent for by Dr. Joseph Warren and instructed to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them. "The British are coming!"
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet “Common Sense,” setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence.
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The declaration of indepence was adopted and freedom was declared from England.
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Washington led the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian soldiers garrisoned at Trenton.
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The Continental Army entered its winter camp at Valley Forge, 22 miles from British-occupied Philadelphia.
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France and the fledgling United States of America signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance in Paris, France.
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The Articles were signed by Congress and sent to the individual states for ratification.
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British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army of some 8,000 men to General George Washington at Yorktown, giving up any chance of winning the Revolutionary War.
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A document that ended the Revolutionary War between Britain and America.
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55 delegates meet in Philadelphia to make a new U.S. constiution.
