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The Seven Years War between Britain and France ends. Great Britain had received great military and economic aid from the colonies
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It took place on December 16, 1773 in Boston, Massachusetts, in which a whole shipment of tea was thrown into the sea. A group of settlers disguised as Indians dumped the cargo of three British ships into the sea. It was an act of protest by the American colonists against Great Britain and is considered a precedent for the War of Independence of the United States.
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The Settlers' Congress meets the first time against servitude to London in favor of an independent homeland (First Continental Congress)
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ºOn April 19, English troops leave Boston to prevent the settler rebellion
ºSecond Continental Congress in Philadelphia, begins to assume the functions of national government, appointing fourteen generals and authorizing the invasion of Canada
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British General William Howe surrenders and evacuates Boston.
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Congress resolves that the United Colonies must be free and sovereign states
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approves the Declaration of Independence of the United States, written by Thomas Jefferson
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Things began to change when the British Army under General John Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga, in upstate New York. Surrender gave way to the next act; the impetus the colonists needed for their independence.
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France enters the war supporting the settlers
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Spain enters the war collaborating with the colonists
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York site. British troops under General Charles Cornwallis are surrounded in Virginia
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The Spanish recover Menorca from the English
recovered by the Duke of Crillón, after 69 years of British rule. Despite this, he gave a military instruction with the force of an ordinance whose first article referred to the Menorcan people. -
Great Britain recognizes the independence of the United States, Peace of Versailles. The Treaty of Paris, Treaty of Versailles or Peace of Versailles was signed on September 3, 1783 between Great Britain and the United States and ended the War of Independence of the United States.
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The United States Constitution was drafted at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, signed on September 17, 1787
