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The end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands.
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British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.
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Two lanterns hanging from Boston's North Church informed the countryside that the British were going to attack by sea. A series of horseback riders — men such as Paul Revere, William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott — galloped off to warn the countryside that the Regulars were coming.
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Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured British-held Fort Ticonderoga.
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The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts.
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The Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition, written by John Dickinson, and seems it was directly to King George III and expresses hope for reconciliation between the colonies and Great Britain.
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Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet "Common Sense," setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence.
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Troops from the Continental Army under George Washington's command occupied Dorchester Heights, a series of low hills with a commanding view of Boston and its harbor, and mounted powerful cannons there.
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When armed conflict between bands of American colonists and British soldiers began in April 1775, the Americans were ostensibly fighting only for their rights as subjects of the British crown.
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General George Washington's army crossed the icy Delaware on Christmas Day 1776 and, over the course of the next 10 days, won two crucial battles of the American Revolution.
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The Battle of Princeton was fought on January 3, 1777, shortly after the American victory at Trenton.
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