Events Leading to the Revolution Timeline

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    This document was sent to the Colonists’ by the King and declared colonists were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp
  • Repeal of Stamp Act

    Repeal of Stamp Act
    In the summer of 1765 King George III fired George Grenville and replaced him with Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of Rockingham.
  • Townshend Act/Duties

    Townshend Act/Duties
    Of British acts passed beginning in 1767 and relating to the British American colonies in North America.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    Act of the Parliament of Great Britain
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    Were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord
    Were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress
    convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill
    the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved in the battle