Timeline

Treaty of Paris of 1763

Feb 10, 1763

Ended the French and Indian war

Proclamation of 1763

Oct 7, 1763

October 1763. King George III prohibits colonists from going past the Appalachian Mountains.

Stamp Act

Mar 22, 1765

Taxed all printed items

Declaratory Act

Mar 18, 1766

Approved after stamp act was repealed

Townshend Acts

Jun 1, 1767

Placed Taxes on items not made in the colonies

Boston Massacre

Mar 5, 1770

When the British troops attacked the innocent colonist and killed 5 of them.

Tea Act

May 10, 1773

When Taxes were placed on Tea.

Boston Tea Party

Dec 16, 1773

The colonist dressed up like Indians and threw the tea into the sea

Intolerable Acts

Mar 31, 1774

When they closed Boston’s port after the Boston Tea Party.

1 st Continental Congress

Sep 5, 1774

They met in Philadelphia

Midnight Ride

Apr 18, 1775

Revere, Cheswell, Dawes April. When they went around the colonies shouting “the British are coming!”

Lexington and Concord

Apr 19, 1775

The “shot heard ‘round the world”. The first shot starting the revolution. Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy guns the colonists had stored in the town of Concord, just outside of Boston.

2st Continental Congress

May 10, 1775

Meets in Philadelphia