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French and Indian War 1754 - 1763
The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War, the American phase of a worldwide nine years’ war fought between France and Great Britain and also the North American possessions east of the Mississippi River to Britain and the British government’s decision to impose new taxes on its American colonies. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was imposed to provide increased revenues to meet the costs of defending the enlarged British Empire and the first British parliamentary attempt was raise revenue through direct taxation on a wide variety of colonial transactions, including legal writs, newspaper advertisements, and ships’ bills of lading and for last Stamp Act through outright refusal to use the stamps as well as by riots, stamp burning, and intimidation of colonial stamp distributors. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of revenue duties and in October 1768, Parliament dispatched two regiments of the British army to Boston. -
Boston Massacre
In Boston, a small British army did mob harassment opened fire and killed five people, an incident soon known as the Boston Massacre. Also, The soldiers were charged with murder and civilian trial, in which John Adams conducted a successful defense. -
Boston Tea Party
A party of Bostonians thinly disguised as Mohawk people boarded ships at anchor and dumped some £10,000 worth of tea into the harbor, an event popularly known as the Boston Tea Party. Also, the perceived monopoly of the East India Company. -
Intolerable Acts
The British Parliament enacted four measures that became known as the Intolerable (or Coercive) Acts: the Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, and Quartering Act and from the other colonies, the oppressive acts became the justification for convening the First Continental Congress later in 1774. -
First Continental Congress convenes
The Committees of Correspondence in response to the Intolerable Acts, the First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. -
Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech
The British in a fiery speech in a Richmond church with the famous words, “I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”. -
Paul Revere’s Ride and the Battles of Lexington and Concord
On the night of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere rode from Charlestown to Lexington (both in Massachusetts) to warn that the British were marching from Boston to seize the colonial armory at Concord and It is unclear who fired the first shot, but it sparked a skirmish that left eight Americans dead. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Breed’s Hill in Charlestown was the primary locus of combat in the misleadingly named Battle of Bunker Hill, which was part of the American siege of British-held Boston and the battle was a moral victory for the Americans. -
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense published
In late 1775 the colonial conflict with the British still looked like a civil war, not a war aiming to separate nations; however, the publication of Thomas Paine’s irreverent pamphlet Common Sense abruptly put independence and more than any other single publication, Common Sense paved the way for the Declaration of Independence. -
Declaration of Independence adopted
The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson and revised in committee and On July 2 the Congress voted for independence; on July 4 it adopted the Declaration of Independence. -
Nathan Hale executed
On September 21, 1776, having penetrated the British lines on Long Island to obtain information, American Captain and He was hanged without trial the next day. Before his death, Hale is thought to have said, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country,” a remark similar to one in the play Cato by Joseph Addison. -
Washington crosses the Delaware
George Washington and the Continental Army struck back on Christmas night by stealthily crossing the ice-strewn Delaware River, surprising the Hessian garrison at Trenton at dawn, and taking some 900 prisoners and the American triumph at Trenton and in the Battle of Princeton (January 3, 1777) roused the new country and kept the struggle for independence alive. -
Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga
Moving south from Canada in summer 1777, a British force under Gen. John Burgoyne captured Fort Ticonderoga July 5 before losing decisively at Bennington, Vermont August 16, and Bemis Heights, New York October 7.
