American Revolution

Stamp Act 1765

Mar 22, 1765

a direct tax passed by British Parliament on March 22, 1765, requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp on paper goods—including legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards—to fund British troop protection

Quartering Act

Mar 24, 1765

British parliamentary laws requiring American colonists to house and supply British troops

Townshend Acts

Jun 15, 1767

taxing essential imports (glass, lead, paint, paper, tea), suspending the New York Assembly, creating a new Customs Board, and increasing smuggling punishments

Boston Massacre,

Mar 5, 1770

The Boston Massacre, known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation, on March 5, 1770, during the American Revolution in Boston in what was then the colonial-era Province of Massachusetts Bay.