US History Timeline 1763-1796
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| 1763 | End of the French and Indian War.
Proclamation Line formed.
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| 1765 | Stamp Act passed.
Stamp Act Congress in New York.
Quartering Act is passed.
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| 1766 | Declaratory Act is passed declaring England's sovereignty over the colonies.
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| 1767 | Townshend Duties
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| 1770 | Boston Massacre
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| 1772 | The burning of the Gaspee.
Committees of Correspondence formed.
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| 1773 | Tea Act.
Boston Tea Party.
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| 1774 | Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) passed closing Boston.
First Continental Congress formed.
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| 1775 | Prohibitory Act embargo on American goods.
Battles of Lexington and Concord.
Second Continental Congress.
Battle of Bunker Hill.
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| 1776* | Common Sense by Thomas Paine.
The Declaration of Independence (July 4).
Battle of Trenton.
Valley Forge, Washington's winter quarters.
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| 1777 | Battles of Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown.
General Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga.
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| 1778 | Britain's Southern Offensive, capture Savannah.
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| 1780-1781 | Battles of Camden, Charlestown, and Cowpens.
Patriots defeat the British at King's Mountain (South Carolina).
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| 1781 | Articles of Confederation ratified by States.
Washington forces General Cornwallis to surrender at Yorktown.
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| 1783 | Treaty of Paris, ending of the Revolutionary War.
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| 1785 | Land Ordinance passed
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| 1786 | Annapolis Convention suggests revision of Articles of Confederation
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| 1787* | Spring/Summer: The Philadelphia Convention.
September 17: The Constitution is signed by 39 members of the Philadelphia Convention.
Northwest Ordinance.
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| 1787-1788 | All States except North Carolina and Rhode Island ratify the Constitution
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| 1789 | George Washington first president of the US
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| 1791 | The Bill of Rights ratified by States.
Hamilton's Reports.
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| 1794 | Whiskey Rebellion
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| 1796 | John Adams second president of the US
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