American Revolution Timeline

  • Signing of the Treaty of Paris

    Signing of the Treaty of Paris

    The Signing of the Treaty of Paris is when Great Britain recognized the independence of the U.S.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    Issued at the end of the French and Indian war, to forbid the natives from going to the Ohio river valley.
  • sugar act

    sugar act

    Raise money from the colonists for Britain.
  • stamp act

    stamp act

    A law that raised tax money requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp.
  • quartering Act

    quartering Act

    Acts that helped fan the flames of revolution in the English colonies.
  • townshend act

    townshend act

    Acts placed duties on glass, lead, paints paper, and tea.
  • british troops arrive in boston

    british troops arrive in boston

    Tax collectors,in Massachusetts feized the ship liberty, they attacked the houses of customs officials.
  • boston massacre

    boston massacre

    An incidente in which soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists
  • Boston tea party

    Boston tea party

    Colonists who boarded british ships and dumped more than 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
  • tea act

    tea act

    A law passed by parliament allowing the british East India Company to sell its low tea to the colonists.
  • intolerable act

    intolerable act

    Laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston tea party.
  • continental congress

    continental congress

    The Continental Congress, also known as the Philadelphia Congress, was a convention of delegates
  • battles of lexington and concord

    battles of lexington and concord

    The British troops arrived at the town of Lexington near conquered, the battles ended in minutes.
  • battle of bunker hill

    battle of bunker hill

    The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War
  • george washington is appoint commander-in-chief

    george washington is appoint commander-in-chief

    He inspired Americans and helped unite them. He led the colonial forces to victory.