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United States History: American Revolution

General Reading


 

People, Places, Ideas

1765 (May 29) Virginia Resolves

1767 (June 29) - Townshend Acts

1768 (October 1) - British troops occupy Boston to maintain order

1770 (March 5) - Boston Massacre

1772 (June 10) - Burning of the Gaspee

1773 (July) Thomas Hutchison Letters Published

1773 Boston Tea Party

1775 (June 16) Continental Congress appoints George Washington commander-in-chief of Continental Army

1776 - France quietly begins assisting Americans

1776 (January 10) - Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" published in Philadelphia

1776 (July 4) - Declaration of Independence

1776 (October 28) - Battle of White Plains

1777 (January 2) - Battle of Trenton

1780 (August 16) - Battle of Camden

1781 (March 1) - 1789 (March 4) - Congress of the Confederation

1781 (September 5) - Battle of the Chesapeake (Virginia Capes)

1781 (October 6) - Battle of Yorktown

1781 (October 18) - Surrender of British forces under Cornwallis at Yorktown

1783 (September 3) - Treaty of Paris (formally ends Revolutionary War)

1787 (May 25 - September 17) - Constitutional Convention (Philadelphia)

1789 (March 4) - George Washington begins the first Presidential term