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This section of the Timeline of Quebec history concerns the events in British North America relating to what is the present day province of Quebec, Canada between the Quebec Act and the Constitutional Act.
- 1774 - On June 13, the British Parliament enacts the Quebec Act which is given Royal Assent on June 22. The Act will be effective as of May 1, 1775.
- 1774 - The First Continental Congress issues its Articles of Association condemning the Quebec Act for creating an "arbitrary government", and disposing "the inhabitants to act with hostility against the free Protestant colonies, whenever a wicked ministry shall chuse so to direct them."
- 1775 - Green Mountain Boys under Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold take Fort Ticonderoga on May 9, Fort Crown Point on May 11, and Fort St. Jean on May 18.
- 1775 - On May 22, Monsieur Jean-Olivier Briand writes a mandement inviting the Catholics of the Province of Quebec to ignore the invitation of the rebels of the south and defend their country and their King.
- 1775 - On May 29, the American Continental Congress writes a Letter to the Inhabitants of Canada inviting them to join in the revolution.
- 1775 - Montreal capitulates to the Americans on November 13.
- 1776 - United States Declaration of Independence signed on July 4.
- 1775 - The troops of Richard Montgomery are defeated before Quebec City on December 31.
- 1778 - In the spring, the Gazette du Commerce et Littéraire pour la Ville et District de Montréal is founded in Montreal by the American printer Fleury Mesplet.
- 1779 - On June 2, The publishing of the Gazette Littéraire is stopped.
- 1779 - Fleury Mesplet and Valentin Jautard are arrested by order of the governor on June 4.
- 1781 - Major Clément Gosselin a québécker from La Pocatière defeat the English at Yorktown helped by the Admiral Louis-Philippe de Vaudreuil who is the Nephew of Pierre Vaudreuil of Montréal this will bring the defeated English Monarchist in Quebec.
