Unit 3 timeline By Student42069 1754 Albany Plan Period: 1754 to 1763 French and Indian War 1763 Proclamation of 1763 1764 Sugar Act 1764 Currency Act 1765 Stamp Act 1766 Stamp Act Congress 1766 Declaratory Act passed 1767 Townshend Act 1769 1769 Townshend Duties repealed 1770 Boston Massacre 1773 Boston Tea Party 1774 Coercive Acts 1774 First Continental Congress 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord 1775 2nd Continental Congress 1775 Olive Branch Petition 1775 Olive Branch Petition 1775 2nd Continental Congress 1776 Thomas Jefferson commissioned to write Declaration of Independence 1776 Common Sense - Thomas Paine 1776 Declaration of Independence signed 1777 Articles of Confederation 1778 Franco-American Alliance 1783 Treaty of Paris 1787 Constitutional Convention 1789 Constitution is effective 1789 Election of Washington 1791 Bill of Rights