| Date: | April 8, 2006 1:41 pm |
| Subject: | History | | Word Count: | 162 | | Page Count: | 1 |
The American Revolution
3.0 Chronology of Major Events in this Period
1760 - 1820 - The reign of George III
1765 - Stamp Act; Stamp Act Congress Meets in New York; Quartering
Act
1766 - Stamp Act Repealed by Parliament; Quartering Act.
1767 - Townshend Duties Passed; Dickinson’s Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania published.
1768 - British Troops sent to Boston.
1770 - Townshend Duties Repealed; Except for Duty on Tea; Boston Massacre.
1772 - The Gaspee Affair.
1773 - Tea Act Imposed; Boston Tea Party.
1774 - Coercive or Intolerable Acts; Continental Congress Meets in Philadelphia.
1775 - Battles of Lexington and Concord; second continental Congress
meets at Philadelphia;
George Washington appointed Commander-in-Chief of the
Continental Army;
Battle of Bunker Hill.
1776 - Thomas Paine’s Common Sense; Declaration of Independence;
1777 - Articles of Confederation adopted by the Congress, but not ratified by all States until 1781.
1778 - U.S. concludes Military Alliance and Commercial Treaty with France.
1781 - Cornwallis surrenders to Washington at York Town, Virginia.
1783 - Treaty of Paris signed with Britain.
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