Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789)
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This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1760 to 1789.
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[edit] 1760s
- 1760 - King George III crowned
- 1763 - Treaty of Paris (1763) ends French and Indian War
- 1763 - Pontiac's Rebellion begin
- 1763 - British Royal Proclamation of 1763
- 1764 - Currency Act, passed by Parliament
- 1764 - Revenue Act is passed to enforce the Sugar and Molasses Act
- 1765 - Stamp Act passed
- 1765 - Stamp Act Congress convenes
- 1765 - First Quartering Act
- 1767 - Townshend Acts
[edit] 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:
- 1774 - Burning of the HMS Peggy Stewart.
- 1775 - Battle of Lexington and Concord
- 1775 - Battle of Bunker Hill
- 1775 - Second Continental Congress
- 1775 - Olive Branch Petition sent to King George III
- 1776 - Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense
- 1776 - Declaration of Independence
- 1777 - Battle of Oriskany (August 6)
- 1777 - Battle of Brandywine (September 11)
- 1777 - Paoli Massacre (September 20)
- 1777 - British occupation of Philadelphia (September 26)
- 1777 - Battle of Germantown (October 4)
- 1777 - Battle of Saratoga (October 7)
- 1777 - Articles of Confederation adopted by the Second Continental Congress (November 15)
- 1777 - Battle of White Marsh (December 5-December 8)
- 1777 - Battle of Matson's Ford (December 11)
- 1777 - Vermont, as the Republic of Vermont, passes the Constitution of Vermont, the first in the nation to outlaw slavery
- 1777-1778 - Valley Forge (December 19-June 19)
- 1778 - Treaty of Alliance (February 6)
- 1778 - Battle of Barren Hill (May 20)
- 1778 - British occupation of Philadelphia ends (June)
[edit] 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 ratify the constitution
- 1788 - Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia and New York ratify the constitution
- 1789 - Constitution goes into effect
- 1789 - George Washington becomes President
- 1789 - Judiciary Act of 1789
- 1789 - Hamilton tariff
- 1789 - Jay-Gardoqui Treaty
- 1789 - North Carolina ratifies the constitution
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