Revolution timeline By Drdankdoritos Apr 5, 1764 Sugar act, strictly enforced 1765 Sons of liberty created Mar 22, 1765 Stamp act enacted, taxed stamps and newspapers Mar 24, 1765 Quartering act, colonists have to house British troops Aug 13, 1765 Tore down and destroyed the stamp collectors house Mar 18, 1766 Declatory act, repealed stamp act but gave parliament full control of colonies Mar 5, 1770 Boston massacre, 5 dead after colonists threw snowballs at British and the brits opened fire May 10, 1773 Tea act Dec 16, 1773 Boston tea party Colonists dresses as Indians dump tea into harbor 1774 Intolerable acts, shut down Boston Harbor and placed british troops in homes Sep 5, 1774 1st continental congress, agrees to boycott british goods 1775 Olive branch petition sent to KIng George, rejected and sent more troops 1775 Patrick Henry's speech "Give me liberty or give me death." Apr 19, 1775 Lexington and Concorde May 10, 1775 2nd Continental Congress meets, puts washington in charge Jun 17, 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill Jan 9, 1776 Thomas Paine publishes “Common Sense” Jul 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence approved and signed 1777 Von Steuben trains soldiers in Valley Forge Aug 17, 1777 Patriots win at Saratoga Feb 6, 1778 France signs Alliance with US 1780 Gen. Clinton captures 3000 patriot soldiers as he takes south carolina Aug 19, 1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown Sep 3, 1783 Treaty of Paris signed
