Declaration of Independence Timeline

By sturg1221

  • Jamestown is founded

  • Period: to

    Timeline of the Declaration of Independence

  • Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes is written

  • Two Treatises of Government written by John Locke

  • French and Indian War Begins

  • French and Indian War Ends--Treaty of Paris

  • Sugar Act Passed--Tax on Sugar

  • Stamp Act is passed

  • Boston Massacre

  • Tea Act passed by Parliament

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)

  • 1st Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence