Timeline: The American Revolution _ A timeline - Faith McCorkle

Period: 1763 to 1774

The American Revolution timleine

Feb 10, 1763

End of the Seven Years War - The French and Indian war

The treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years of war; also known as the French and Indian war. France here surrenders all North American Possessions east of the Mississippi to Britain. Ending a source of insecurity for British colonists along the Atlantic coast.

Mar 22, 1765

Passage of the Stamp Act

Britain passes the stamp Act, imposing tax onto legal documentations, newspapers, and even playing cards. This is the first direct attack on American continents and its hostility resisted.

Jul 2, 1767

Townshend Act

A series of four acts were passed known as the Townshend acts. They were passed by British parliament in attempt to
assert what it is considered to be the historic right in able to exert authority over the colonies over the act of suspension to exert revenue deities.

1768

British Troops Occupy Boston

British Troops land in Boston to explain the Townshend duties and Camp down on Local Radicals.

Mar 5, 1770

Boston Massa cure

In Boston a small British army detachment that was threatened by mob harassment creating open fire killing five people.

Dec 16, 1773

Boston Teaparty

Protesting both tax on tea, and precited monopoly of the East Asian Company, a party known as the Mohawk people boarded ships at archer and dumped 10,000 pounds worth of tea into the harbor.

1774

Intolerable acts

In relation for colonial resistance to British rule during the winter of 1773-74 the British parliament enacted the measurements known as the intolerable acts which later became the justification for convening the first continental congress of 1774. March- June of 1774

Jun 5, 1774

First Colonial Congress Convenes September 5,1774

Called by the Committees of Correspondence in response to the Intolerable Acts. The first continental congress convened and Philadelphia. Fifty six delegates represented all colonies exept Georgia.

Jun 17, 1775

Battle of Bunker Hill

One The first Battles of the American Revolution, The Battles name was after the Bunker Hill in Charlestown. Americans concord a defense position, as the British won into he end.

Oct 7, 1777

Battles of Saratonga

A turning Point in the Revolutionary war, the Climax of the Saratoga campaign, it ended in the British trying to control the Hudson river valley but America winning.