CHRONOLOGY III

Independence to Founding

1760s 1763 Indian uprising in Ohio Valley and Great Lakes.
Proclamation of 1763.
1764 Sugar Act.
1765 Stamp Act.
Quartering Act.
Loyal Nine formed in Boston to oppose the Stamp Act.
Sons of Liberty band together throughout the colonies.
Stamp Act Congress.
Colonists begin boycott of British goods.
1766 Stamp Act repealed.
Declaratory Act.
1767 New York Suspending Act.
American Board of Customs Commissioners created.
Revenue Act (Townshend duties).
John Dickinson, "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania".
1768 Boston merchants adopt the colonies' first nonimportation agreement.
John Hancock's ship Liberty seized by Boston customs commissioner.
British troops arrive in Boston.
First Treaty of Fort Stanwix.
1770s 1770 Townshend duties, except tea tax, repealed.
Boston Massacre.
First American ban on slaveholding--Yearly meeting of New England Quakers.
1771 Battle of Alamance Creek in North Carolina.
1772 Gaspee incident in Rhode Island.
Committees of correspondence begin in Massachusetts and rapidly spread.
1773 Tea Act.
Boston Tea Party.
1774 Coercive Acts.
Quebec Act.
First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia and adopts Suffolk Resolves.
Continental Association.
1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord.
Second Continental Congress meets.
Olive Branch Petition.
Battles at Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill.
Virginia governor Lord Dunmore promises freedom to any slave assisting in the restoration of royal authority.
Mercy Otis Warren, "The Group".
1776 Thomas Paine, "Common Sense".
Declaration of Independence.
British troops evacuate Boston.
British defeat American forces under Washington in fighting around New York City.
American victory in Battle of Trenton.
Cherokees attack North Carolina frontier.
1777 American victory in Battle of Princeton.
British general John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga.
Battle of Brandywine Creek; British occupy Philadelphia.
British general William Howe defeats Washington at Battle of Germantown.
Congress approves Articles of Confederation.
1778 France formally recognizes the United States.
France declares war on Britain.
Philadelphia evacuated by British general Henry Clinton; Battle of Monmouth Court House (New Jersey).
British occupy Savannah.
Joseph Brant leads Iroquois attacks in western Pennsylvania and New York.
1779 Spain declares war on Britain.
George Rogers Clark's recapture of Vincennes.
John Sullivan leads U.S. raids in Iroquois country.
1780s 1780 British seize Charles Town.
Dutch Republic declares war on Britain.
1781 Articles of Confederation become law.
Battle of Yorktown; British general Charles Cornwallis surrenders.
1782 British evacuate Savannah.
Paris peace negotiations begin.
Rhode Island rejects national import duty.
1783 Peace of Paris.
Newburgh Conspiracy.
Treaty of Augusta.
1784 Spain closes New Orleans to American trade.
Economic depression begins.
Second Treaty of Fort Stanwix.
1785 Ordinance of 1785.
Treaty of Fort McIntosh.
1786 Congress rejects Jay-Gardoqui Treaty.
Treaty of Fort Finney.
Joseph Brant organizes Indian resistance to U.S. expansion.
Virginia adopts Thomas Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom.
1786-1787 Shays's Rebellion in Massachusetts.
1787 Northwest Ordinance.
Philadelphia Convention; Federal Constitution signed.
Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures and the Useful Arts established.
1788 Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, "The Federalist".
Federal Constitution becomes law. 
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