AP US History – Units 2 and 3

A Chronology of the American Revolution

1754-1763: French & Indian War

1763:Pontiac's rebellion and Proclamation of 1763

1764: Sugar Act puts a tariff sugar, coffee, wine and more

1765: Stamp Act places an excise tax on all printed materials

1765: Stamp Act Congress convenes

1765: Quartering Act requires colonies to provide room/board for British troops

1766: Stamp Act repealed by Parliament; Declaratory Act passed

1767:Townshend Acts put a tariff on imports (glass, lead, paint, etc.)

1768:Sam Adams and Sons of Liberty organize boycott of British goods.

British troops occupy Boston

March 5, 1770:Boston Massacre

1772: Committees of Correspondence organized

1773: Gaspee affair

1773: Tea Act gives East India Company monopoly on selling of tea in American colonies

December 16, 1773:Boston Tea Party

January, 1774: Intolerable Acts (Justice Act, BostonPort Act, Massachusetts Regulating Act)

June, 1774:Quebec Act

September 1774: First Continental Congress meets

April 18-19, 1775: First Shots of the Revolution fired at Concord & Lexington, Mass.

May 1775: Second Continental Congress meets, forms Continental Army

May 10, 1775: Americans capture FortTiconderoga

June 15, 1775: Continental Congress appoints George Washington as Commander-In-Chief

June 17, 1775: Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)

August 22, 1775: King George rejects “Olive Branch Petition”

December 1775: Prohibitory Act

January 1776: Thomas Paine publishes “Common Sense”

March 1776: British withdraw from Boston

June 11, 1776:Continental Congress appoints a committee to compose a declaration of

independence

July 2, 1776: Continental Congress votes for a resolution for independence

July 4, 1776:Continental Congress votes for The Declaration of Independence, explaining the

reasons behind the resolution for independence.

August 27, 1776:Washington’s army nearly destroyed at the Battle of Brooklyn Heights

December 25, 1776:Washington wins Battle of Trenton

January 1, 1777:Washington wins Battle of Princeton

September 9-11, 1777: Howe defeats Washington at Brandywine Creek, PA

September 26, 1777: Howe occupies Philadelphia

October 17, 1777: British defeated at Saratoga, encouraging France to recognize America and

become an ally

November, 1777: Articles of Confederation (not yet approved) create the first American

government

December 1777 - February 1778: Continental Army winters at Valley Forge

February 6, 1778:France formally enters the war on the side of the American colonists

December 1778: British capture Savannah, Georgia

June 16, 1779: Spain declares war on Britain but makes no American alliances

October 17, 1779: Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Morristown, NJ, where it suffers

worse than it did at Valley Forge

Spring 1780: The British Southern campaign begins

October 19, 1781: Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, effectively ending British hopes of victory in

America.

November 30, 1782: A preliminary peace treaty is signed in Paris.

September 3, 1783: The Treaty of Paris is signed, formally ending the war. Treaty is ratified by

Congress in January 1784.

1786: Shay's Rebellion

Spring & Summer 1787: Constitutional Convention meets.

July 1787: Rough Draft of Constitution in done

September 17, 1787: Members of the Constitutional Convention sign the Constitution

December 7, 1787Delaware is the first state to ratify the Constitution

1788:The Federalist Papers are published throughout the year.

February 1789: Washington unanimously elected President by Electoral College

September 1789 James Madison submits a draft of the Bill of Rights to Congress

May 1790:Rhode Island is the last state to ratify the Constitution

December 15, 1791: Bill of Rights finally ratified