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American Revolution Timeline

  • Son Of Liberty

    Son Of Liberty

    The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists.
  • Stamp Act of 1765

    Stamp Act of 1765

    The reason of the tax was to pay for British military troops stationed in the American colonies after the French and Indian War but the colonists would never be afraid of a French invasion to begin with.
  • Townshend Act of 1767

    Townshend Act of 1767

    The Townshend Acts or Townshend Duties were a series of British acts of Parliament enacted in 1767 introducing a series of taxes and regulations to enable administration of the British colonies in America.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre was a confrontation, on March 5, 1770, during the American Revolution in Boston in what was then the colonial-era Province of Massachusetts Bay.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was a strong American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, during the American Revolution.
  • Treaty of Paris

    The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States from 1775 to 1783
  • Battles of Lexington & Concord

    Battles of Lexington & Concord

    The Battles of Lexington and Concord on were the first major military actions between the British Army and Patriot militias from British America's Thirteen Colonies
  • 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 first stage of the American Revolutionary War.
  • Olive Branch Petition sent to England

    Olive Branch Petition sent to England

    The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, and signed on July 8, 1775, in a final attempt to avoid war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in America.
  • Declaration of Independence adopted

    Declaration of Independence adopted

    The Declaration of Independence. United States of America in the original printing, is the founding document of the United States.
  • Battle of Trenton

    Battle of Trenton

    The Battle of Trenton occurred after a series of defeats for the Continental Army, which had retreated across New Jersey into Pennsylvania. By December 1776.
  • Battle of Camden

    Battle of Camden

    The Battle of Camden also known as the Battle of Camden Court House, was a major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War.
  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown

    the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender at Yorktown, was the final battle of the American Revolutionary War.
  • Great Compromise

    Great Compromise

    The Connecticut Compromise, also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman Compromise, was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787
  • Constitution is ratified

    Constitution is ratified

    The first state to ratify the Constitution was Delaware on December 7, 1787, followed by Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut.