Timeline Of United States Revolutionary History (1760-1789)

1760s

• 1760 - King George III crowned
• 1763 - Treaty of Paris (1763) ends French and Indian War
• 1763 - Pontiac's Rebellion begins
• 1763 - British Royal Proclamation of 1763
• 1764 - Currency Act, passed by Parliament
• 1764 - Revenue Act is passed to enforce the Sugar Act
• 1765 - Stamp Act passed
• 1765 - Stamp Act Congress convenes
• 1765 - First Quartering Act
• 1767 - Townshend Acts

1770s

• 1770 - Boston Massacre
• 1771 - Battle of Alamance in North Carolina
• 1772 - Samuel Adams organizes the Committees of Correspondence
• 1773 - British Parliament passes Tea Act
• 1773 - Boston Tea Party
• 1774 - First Continental Congress
• 1774 - Dunmore's War
• 1774 - British pass Intolerable Acts, including:
• Boston Port Act (March 31)
• Administration of Justice Act (May 20),
• Massachusetts Government Act (May 20),
• Second Quartering Act (June 2), and
• Quebec Act
• 1775 - Battle of Lexington and Concord
• 1775 - Second Continental Congress
• 1776 - Declaration of Independence
• 1776 - Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense
• 1777 - Battle of Oriskany (August 6)
• 1777 - Battle of Saratoga (October 7)
• 1777 - Vermont, as the Republic of Vermont, passes the Constitution of Vermont, the first in the nation to outlaw slavery
• 1777 - Articles of Confederation adopted by the Second Continental Congress
• 1778 - Treaty of Alliance

1780s

• 1781 - Articles of Confederation ratified
• 1781 - British surrender at Yorktown
• 1781 - Bank of North America chartered
• 1783 - Treaty of Paris (1783) ends United States Revolutionary War
• 1785 - Treaty of Hopewell
• 1786 - Shays' Rebellion
• 1786 - Annapolis Convention fails
• 1787 - Northwest Ordinance of 1787
• 1787 - Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
• 1787 - Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey become states
• 1788 - Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia and New York become states
• 1789 - Constitution ratified
• 1789 - George Washington becomes President
• 1789 - Judiciary Act of 1789
• 1789 - Hamilton tariff
• 1789 - Jay-Gardoqui Treaty
• 1789 - North Carolina becomes a state

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