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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1759" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1759"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>1759</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1759-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1760s" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1760s"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>1760s</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-1760s-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle 1760s subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-1760s-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-1760" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1760"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>1760</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1760-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1763" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1763"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>1763</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1763-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1764" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1764"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>1764</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1764-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1765" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1765"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>1765</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1765-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1766" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1766"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>1766</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1766-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1767" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1767"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>1767</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1767-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1768" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1768"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7</span> <span>1768</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1768-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1769" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1769"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.8</span> <span>1769</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1769-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1770s" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1770s"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>1770s</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-1770s-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle 1770s subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-1770s-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-1770" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1770"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>1770</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1770-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1771" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1771"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>1771</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1771-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1772" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1772"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>1772</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1772-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1773" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1773"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>1773</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1773-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1774" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1774"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5</span> <span>1774</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1774-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1775" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1775"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.6</span> <span>1775</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1775-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1776" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1776"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.7</span> <span>1776</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1776-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1777" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1777"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.8</span> <span>1777</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1777-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1778" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1778"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.9</span> <span>1778</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1778-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1779" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1779"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.10</span> <span>1779</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1779-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1780s" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1780s"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>1780s</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-1780s-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle 1780s subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-1780s-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-1780" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1780"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>1780</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1780-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1781" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1781"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>1781</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1781-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1782" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1782"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>1782</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1782-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1783" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1783"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>1783</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1783-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1784" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1784"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.5</span> <span>1784</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1784-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1785" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1785"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.6</span> <span>1785</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1785-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1786" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1786"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.7</span> <span>1786</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1786-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1787" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1787"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.8</span> <span>1787</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1787-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1788" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1788"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.9</span> <span>1788</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1788-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1789" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1789"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.10</span> <span>1789</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1789-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1790s" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1790s"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>1790s</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-1790s-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> 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class="vector-toc-link" href="#1795"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.4</span> <span>1795</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1795-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1796" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1796"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.5</span> <span>1796</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1796-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1797" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1797"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.6</span> <span>1797</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1797-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul 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title="American Enlightenment">American Enlightenment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republicanism_in_the_United_States" title="Republicanism in the United States">Republicanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberalism_in_the_United_States" title="Liberalism in the United States">Liberalism</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/No_taxation_without_representation" title="No taxation without representation">No taxation without representation</a>"</li></ul> </div></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding-bottom:0;"> Conflict over taxation</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="padding-top:0;"> <div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sugar_Act" title="Sugar Act">Sugar Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Currency_Act" title="Currency Act">Currency Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quartering_Acts" title="Quartering Acts">Quartering Acts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765" title="Stamp Act 1765">Stamp Act 1765</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sons_of_Liberty" title="Sons of 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The <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> includes political, social, and military aspects. The revolutionary era is generally considered to have begun with the passage of the <a href="/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765" title="Stamp Act 1765">Stamp Act</a> in 1765 and ended with the ratification of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights" title="United States Bill of Rights">United States Bill of Rights</a> in 1791. The military phase of the revolution, the American Revolutionary War, lasted from 1775 to 1783. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886046785">.mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-3 .toclevel-2 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-4 .toclevel-3 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-5 .toclevel-4 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-6 .toclevel-5 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-7 .toclevel-6 ul{display:none}</style><div class="toclimit-2"><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1600s">1600s</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: 1600s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1629">1629</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 1629"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Agreement" title="Cambridge Agreement">Cambridge Agreement</a> (August 26, 1629)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1683">1683</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1683"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Trade" title="Board of Trade">Lords of Trade</a> issues <a href="/wiki/Quo_warranto" title="Quo warranto">quo warranto</a> writs for the charters of several North American colonies, including Massachusetts (June 3)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1684">1684</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1684"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony" title="Massachusetts Bay Colony">Revocation of the Charter</a> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II</a>. For technical reasons the Massachusetts writ is never served, and the agreement is formally vacated when the chancery court issues a <a href="/wiki/Scire_facias" title="Scire facias">scire facias</a> writ formally annulling the charter. The proceedings are arranged so that the time for the colonial authorities to defend the charter expires before they even learn of the event (June 18)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1686">1686</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1686"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Charter arrives in Boston establishing <a href="/wiki/Dominion_of_New_England" title="Dominion of New England">the Dominion of New England in America</a> (May 14)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1689">1689</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1689"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1689_Boston_revolt" title="1689 Boston revolt">1689 Boston revolt</a>, Leaders of the former <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony" title="Massachusetts Bay Colony">Massachusetts Bay Colony</a> reclaim control of the government. In other colonies, members of governments displaced return to power (April 18)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1691">1691</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1691"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_III_of_England" title="William III of England">William III</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mary_II_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary II of England">Mary II</a> approve the charter formally establishing the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay" title="Province of Massachusetts Bay">Province of Massachusetts Bay</a> (October 7)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1740s_and_1750s">1740s and 1750s</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 1740s and 1750s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Benjamin_Franklin_-_Join_or_Die.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Benjamin_Franklin_-_Join_or_Die.jpg/220px-Benjamin_Franklin_-_Join_or_Die.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Benjamin_Franklin_-_Join_or_Die.jpg/330px-Benjamin_Franklin_-_Join_or_Die.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Benjamin_Franklin_-_Join_or_Die.jpg/440px-Benjamin_Franklin_-_Join_or_Die.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3740" data-file-height="2696" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Join,_or_Die" title="Join, or Die">Join, or Die</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Woodcut" title="Woodcut">woodcut</a> by <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a>, 1754</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1747">1747</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 1747"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ohio_Company_of_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="Ohio Company of Virginia">Ohio Company of Virginia</a> formed</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1754">1754</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 1754"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/French_and_Indian_War" title="French and Indian War">French and Indian War</a>; colonial militias play a role</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albany_Congress" title="Albany Congress">Albany Congress</a>, the first time in the 18th century that American colonial representatives meet to discuss some manner of formal union; attempts to gain Iroquois support (June 18–July 11)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1757">1757</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 1757"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Prime Minister William Pitt commits to all-out effort in the war</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1759">1759</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 1759"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Quebec, capital of <a href="/wiki/New_France" title="New France">New France</a> falls to the British</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1760s">1760s</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 1760s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1760">1760</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 1760"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_de_Rigaud,_marquis_de_Vaudreuil-Cavagnial" title="Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial">Pierre de Rigaud</a>, Governor of <a href="/wiki/New_France" title="New France">New France</a>, <a href="/wiki/Articles_of_Capitulation_of_Montreal" title="Articles of Capitulation of Montreal">capitulates</a> to Field Marshal <a href="/wiki/Jeffery_Amherst,_1st_Baron_Amherst" title="Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst">Jeffrey Amherst</a>. This ends most fighting in North America between <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Great Britain</a> in the <a href="/wiki/French_and_Indian_War" title="French and Indian War">French and Indian War</a>. Amherst becomes the first British Governor-General of territories that would later become <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> plus lands (<a href="/wiki/Ohio_Country" title="Ohio Country">Ohio Country</a> and <a href="/wiki/Illinois_Country" title="Illinois Country">Illinois Country</a>) west of the <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">American Colonies</a> (September 8)</li> <li>King <a href="/wiki/George_II_of_Great_Britain" title="George II of Great Britain">George II of Great Britain</a> dies and is succeeded by his grandson <a href="/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="George III of the United Kingdom">George III</a> (October 25)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1763">1763</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 1763"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_territorial_growth_1775.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Map_of_territorial_growth_1775.jpg/230px-Map_of_territorial_growth_1775.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Map_of_territorial_growth_1775.jpg/345px-Map_of_territorial_growth_1775.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Map_of_territorial_growth_1775.jpg/460px-Map_of_territorial_growth_1775.jpg 2x" data-file-width="570" data-file-height="750" /></a><figcaption>Eastern North America in 1775, including the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">British</a> <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Quebec_(1763%E2%80%931791)" title="Province of Quebec (1763–1791)">Province of Quebec</a> (pink), <i><a href="/wiki/Indian_Reserve_(1763)" title="Indian Reserve (1763)">Indian Reserve</a></i> (pink), and areas open to European-American settlement in the <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">13 Colonies</a> along the Atlantic coast (red), plus the westward border established by the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763" title="Royal Proclamation of 1763">Royal Proclamation of 1763</a> and present–day <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">state</a> lines</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1763)" title="Treaty of Paris (1763)">Treaty of Paris</a> formally ends the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a>, called in North America the <a href="/wiki/French_and_Indian_War" title="French and Indian War">French and Indian War</a>. France cedes most of its territories in North America to Great Britain, but <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_(New_France)" title="Louisiana (New France)">Louisiana</a> west of the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi River</a> is ceded to <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> (February 10); George III is dissatisfied with the terms of the treaty, which he deems favorable to the losing powers France and Spain rather than the winner, Great Britain.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontiac%27s_War" title="Pontiac's War">Pontiac's War</a> is launched by a <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> confederation in the Great Lakes region under the overall command of <a href="/wiki/Pontiac_(Ottawa_leader)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontiac (Ottawa leader)">the eponymous Ottawa chief</a>. Previously <a href="/wiki/Franco-Indian_alliance" title="Franco-Indian alliance">allied with France</a>, they were dissatisfied by the policies of the British under Amherst (April 25, 1763 – July 25, 1766)</li> <li>King George's <a href="/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763" title="Royal Proclamation of 1763">Royal Proclamation of 1763</a> establishes administration in territories newly ceded by France. To prevent further violence between settlers and Native Americans, the Proclamation sets a western boundary on the American colonies (October 7)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navigation_Acts" title="Navigation Acts">Navigation Acts</a> are re-enforced by <a href="/wiki/George_Grenville" title="George Grenville">George Grenville</a> as a part of his attempt to reassert unified economic control over the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a> following the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1764">1764</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: 1764"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Sugar_Act" title="Sugar Act">Sugar Act</a> (April 5), intended to raise revenues, and the <a href="/wiki/Currency_Act" title="Currency Act">Currency Act</a> (September 1), prohibiting the colonies from issuing paper money, are passed by <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain">Parliament</a>. These Acts, coming during the economic slump that followed the French and Indian War, are resented by the colonists and lead to protest</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1765">1765</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: 1765"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Parliament enacts (March 22) the <a href="/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765" title="Stamp Act 1765">Stamp Act</a> to impose control and help defray the cost of keeping troops in America to control the colonists, imposing a tax on many types of printed materials used in the colonies. Seen as a violation of rights, the Act sparks violent demonstrations in several Colonies. Virginia's <a href="/wiki/House_of_Burgesses" title="House of Burgesses">House of Burgesses</a> adopts (May 29) the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Resolves" title="Virginia Resolves">Virginia Resolves</a> claiming that, under British law, Virginians could be taxed only by an assembly to which they had elected representatives</li> <li>Parliament enacts (March 24) the <a href="/wiki/Quartering_Acts" title="Quartering Acts">Quartering Act</a>, requiring the <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">Colonies</a> to provide housing, food, and other provisions to British troops. The act is resisted or circumvented in most of the colonies. In 1767 and again in 1769, Parliament suspended the governor and legislature of <a href="/wiki/Province_of_New_York" title="Province of New York">New York</a> for failure to comply</li> <li>Delegates from nine colonies attend the <a href="/wiki/Stamp_Act_Congress" title="Stamp Act Congress">Stamp Act Congress</a> which adopts (October 19) a <a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_Rights_and_Grievances" title="Declaration of Rights and Grievances">Declaration of Rights and Grievances</a> and petitions Parliament and the king to repeal the Act</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1766">1766</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: 1766"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Although British Parliament repeals the unpopular <a href="/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765" title="Stamp Act 1765">Stamp Act</a> of the previous year, in the simultaneous <a href="/wiki/Declaratory_Act" title="Declaratory Act">Declaratory Act</a>, Parliament asserts its "full power and authority to make laws and statutes ... to bind the colonies and people of America ... in all cases whatsoever", which is designed to overrule actions by the legislative assemblies of each colony, which had traditionally held authority (March 18)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberty_pole" title="Liberty pole">Liberty pole</a> erected in New York City commons in celebration of the Stamp Act repeal (May 21). An intermittent skirmish with the British garrison over the removal of this and other poles, and their replacement by the <a href="/wiki/Sons_of_Liberty" title="Sons of Liberty">Sons of Liberty</a>, rages until the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_New_York" title="Province of New York">Province of New York</a> is under the control of the revolutionary <a href="/wiki/New_York_Provincial_Congress" title="New York Provincial Congress">New York Provincial Congress</a> in 1775</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1767">1767</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: 1767"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Parliament aims to assert its right to tax the American colonies after the failure of the <a href="/wiki/Sugar_Act" title="Sugar Act">Sugar Act</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stamp_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Stamp Act">Stamp Act</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Townshend_Acts" title="Townshend Acts">Townshend Acts</a>, named for <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" title="Chancellor of the Exchequer">Chancellor of the Exchequer</a> <a href="/wiki/Charles_Townshend" title="Charles Townshend">Charles Townshend</a>, are passed by Parliament, placing duties on many items imported into America (June 29). The American colonists, who were denied any representation in Parliament, strongly condemned the Acts as an egregious abuse of power.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1768">1768</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 1768"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Britain's <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_the_Colonies" title="Secretary of State for the Colonies">Secretary of State for the Colonies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wills_Hill,_1st_Marquess_of_Downshire" title="Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire">Lord Hillsborough</a>, orders colonial governors to stop their own assemblies from endorsing <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Circular_Letter" title="Massachusetts Circular Letter">Adams' circular letter</a> (April). Hillsborough also orders the governor of Massachusetts to dissolve the general court if the Massachusetts assembly does not revoke the letter. By month's end, the assemblies of <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a> have endorsed the letter</li> <li>A British warship, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Romney_(1762)" title="HMS Romney (1762)">HMS <i>Romney</i></a>, armed with 50 cannon sailed into Boston harbor after a call for help from custom commissioners who were constantly being harassed by Boston agitators (May). A customs official was later locked up in the cabin of <i>Liberty</i>, a <a href="/wiki/Sloop" title="Sloop">sloop</a> owned by John Hancock (June). Imported wine was unloaded illegally into Boston without payment of duties. Following this incident, customs officials seized Hancock's sloop as <i><a href="/wiki/HMS_Liberty_(1768)" title="HMS Liberty (1768)">HMS Liberty (1768)</a></i>. After threats of violence from Bostonians, the customs officials escaped to an island off Boston, then requested the intervention of British troops</li> <li>The governor of Massachusetts dissolves the general court (July) after the legislature defies his order to revoke Adams' circular letter. In August, in Boston and New York, merchants agree to boycott most British goods until the Townshend Acts are repealed. In September, at a town meeting in Boston, residents are urged to arm themselves. Later in September, British warships sail into Boston Harbor, then two regiments of British infantry land in Boston and set up permanent residence to keep order</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1769">1769</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: 1769"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>To the Betrayed Inhabitants of the City and Colony of New York</i> broadside published anonymously by local <a href="/wiki/Sons_of_Liberty" title="Sons of Liberty">Son of Liberty</a> <a href="/wiki/Alexander_McDougall" title="Alexander McDougall">Alexander McDougall</a> (December 16)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1770s">1770s</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Boston_Massacre.jpg/440px-Boston_Massacre.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2689" data-file-height="3122" /></a><figcaption><i>The Boston Massacre</i>, an engraving by patriot Paul Revere</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Golden_Hill" title="Battle of Golden Hill">Golden Hill incident</a> in which British troops wound civilians, including one death (January 19)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_North,_Lord_North" title="Frederick North, Lord North">Lord North</a> becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain (January 28)</li> <li>Shooting of <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Seider" title="Christopher Seider">Christopher Seider</a> (February 22)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boston_Massacre" title="Boston Massacre">Boston Massacre</a> (March 5)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1771">1771</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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13–14)</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Watauga_Association" title="Watauga Association">Watauga Association</a> in what would become Tennessee declares itself independent (May)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaspee_Affair" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaspee Affair"><i>Gaspee</i> Affair</a> (June 9)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Somerset_v_Stewart" title="Somerset v Stewart">Somerset v Stewart</a></i> A British court ruling confirms that there is nothing in English <a href="/wiki/Common_law" title="Common law">common law</a> that supports slavery in England (June 22)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1773">1773</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: 1773"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Rivington" title="James Rivington">James Rivington</a>'s <i>New-York Gazeteer</i> begins publication (April 22)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Great_Britain" title="Parliament of Great Britain">Parliament</a> passes the <a href="/wiki/Tea_Act" title="Tea Act">Tea Act</a>, requiring the colonies to buy tea solely from the <a href="/wiki/East_India_Company" title="East India Company">East India Company</a> rather than a variety of sources (May 10)</li> <li><i>Association of the Sons of Liberty in New York</i> published by local <a href="/wiki/Sons_of_Liberty" title="Sons of Liberty">Sons of Liberty</a> (December 15)</li> <li>Colonists in all major ports refuse to allow tea to be landed</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party" title="Boston Tea Party">Boston Tea Party</a> (December 16)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1774">1774</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: 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<li>A second <a href="/wiki/Quartering_Act#Quartering_Act_1774" class="mw-redirect" title="Quartering Act">Quartering Act</a> (June 2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quebec_Act" title="Quebec Act">Quebec Act</a> (June 22)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Powder_Alarm" title="Powder Alarm">Powder Alarm</a>, General Gage's secret raid on the Cambridge powder magazine (September 1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Continental_Congress" title="First Continental Congress">First Continental Congress</a>, (September 5 – October 26); 12 colonies send delegates; major actions: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Declaration_and_Resolves_of_the_First_Continental_Congress" title="Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress">Declaration and Resolves</a>, also known as Declaration of Rights (October 14)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Association" title="Continental Association">Continental Association</a> (October 20)<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petition_to_the_King" title="Petition to the King">Petition to the King</a> (October 26)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suffolk_Resolves" title="Suffolk Resolves">Suffolk Resolves</a>, <a href="/wiki/Suffolk_County,_Massachusetts" title="Suffolk County, Massachusetts">Suffolk County, Massachusetts</a> (September 9)</li> <li>Burning of the <a href="/wiki/Peggy_Stewart_(ship)" title="Peggy Stewart (ship)"><i>Peggy Stewart</i></a> (October 19)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenwich_Tea_Party" title="Greenwich Tea Party">Greenwich Tea Party</a> (December 22)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1775">1775</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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Lexington and Concord">Battles of Lexington and Concord</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conciliatory_Resolution" title="Conciliatory Resolution">Conciliatory Resolution</a> (February 27) in Parliament</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Revere%27s_Midnight_Ride" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Revere's Midnight Ride">Paul Revere's Midnight Ride</a> (April 18)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord" title="Battles of Lexington and Concord">Battles of Lexington and Concord</a>, followed by the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Boston" title="Siege of Boston">Siege of Boston</a> (April 19)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gunpowder_Incident" title="Gunpowder Incident">Gunpowder Incident</a> (April 20)</li> <li>Skenesboro, New York (now <a href="/wiki/Whitehall,_New_York" title="Whitehall, New York">Whitehall, New York</a>) captured by Lieutenant Samuel Herrick (May 9)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Fort_Ticonderoga" title="Capture of Fort Ticonderoga">Fort Ticonderoga captured</a> by Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold and the Green Mountain Boys (May 10)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Continental_Congress" title="Second Continental Congress">Second Continental Congress</a> meets (May 10)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Machias" title="Battle of Machias">Battle of Machias</a> (June 11–12)</li> <li>Congress votes to create <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> out of the <a href="/wiki/Militia" title="Militia">militia</a> units around <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> and appointed <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> of <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> as commanding general. This would later become the modern <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a> (June 14)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bunker_Hill" title="Battle of Bunker Hill">Battle of Bunker Hill</a> (June 17)</li> <li>Washington arrives in <a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a> to take command of the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> (July 2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Causes_and_Necessity_of_Taking_Up_Arms" title="Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms">Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms</a> issued (July 6)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olive_Branch_Petition" title="Olive Branch Petition">Olive Branch Petition</a> sent to <a href="/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="George III of the United Kingdom">King George III</a> (July 8)</li> <li>King George III issues a proclamation declaring the colonies in rebellion (August 23)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Navy" title="Continental Navy">Continental Navy</a> established by the Second Continental Congress (October 13)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snow_Campaign" title="Snow Campaign">Snow Campaign</a> (November–December)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dunmore%27s_Proclamation" title="Dunmore's Proclamation">Dunmore's Proclamation</a> issued by <a href="/wiki/John_Murray,_4th_Earl_of_Dunmore" title="John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore">Lord Dunmore</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_colonial_governors_of_Virginia" title="List of colonial governors of Virginia">colonial governor of Virginia</a>, offering freedom to slaves that abandon their Patriot masters and fight for the British (November 7)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Marines" title="Continental Marines">Continental Marines</a> established by Continental Congress. They would become the modern day <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">United States Marine Corps</a> (November 10)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kemp%27s_Landing" title="Battle of Kemp's Landing">Battle of Kemp's Landing</a> (November 15)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Savage%27s_Old_Fields" title="Siege of Savage's Old Fields">Siege of Savage's Old Fields</a> (November 19–21)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Knox" title="Henry Knox">Henry Knox</a> transported <a href="/wiki/Noble_train_of_artillery" title="Noble train of artillery">fifty-nine captured cannons</a> (taken from <a href="/wiki/Fort_Ticonderoga" title="Fort Ticonderoga">Fort Ticonderoga</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fort_Crown_Point" title="Fort Crown Point">Fort Crown Point</a>) from upstate New York to Boston, Massachusetts; took 56 days to complete (December 5, 1775 – January 24, 1776)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Great_Bridge" title="Battle of Great Bridge">Battle of Great Bridge</a> (December 9)</li> <li>British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army generals <a href="/wiki/Richard_Montgomery" title="Richard Montgomery">Richard Montgomery</a> and <a href="/wiki/Benedict_Arnold" title="Benedict Arnold">Benedict Arnold</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Quebec_(1775)" title="Battle of Quebec (1775)">Battle of Quebec</a> (December 31)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1776">1776</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: 1776"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Burning_of_Norfolk" title="Burning of Norfolk">Burning of Norfolk</a> (January 1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a> ratifies the first <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_New_Hampshire#1776_Constitution" title="Constitution of New Hampshire">state constitution</a> (January 5)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Paine" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a> publishes <i><a href="/wiki/Common_Sense" title="Common Sense">Common Sense</a></i> (January 10)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Mathews" title="David Mathews">David Mathews</a> appointed Mayor of New York, the highest ranking civilian officer for English North America for the duration of the Revolution</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Moore%27s_Creek_Bridge" title="Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge">Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge</a> (February 27)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Rice_Boats" title="Battle of the Rice Boats">Battle of the Rice Boats</a> (March 2–3)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raid_of_Nassau" title="Raid of Nassau">Battle of Nassau</a> (March 3–4)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fortification_of_Dorchester_Heights" title="Fortification of Dorchester Heights">Fortification of Dorchester Heights</a> results in British forces evacuating Boston (March 4–5)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evacuation_Day_(Massachusetts)" title="Evacuation Day (Massachusetts)">British evacuate Boston</a> (March 17)</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> departs its first winter encampment at <a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a> (April 4)</li> <li>Congress opens American ports to trade with all other nations except Britain (April 6)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Provincial_Conference" title="Pennsylvania Provincial Conference">Pennsylvania Provincial Conference</a> (June 18–25)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sullivan%27s_Island" title="Battle of Sullivan's Island">Battle of Sullivan's Island</a> (June 28)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hickey_(soldier)" title="Thomas Hickey (soldier)">Thomas Hickey</a> hanged for role in plot to assassinate George Washington (June 28). British Colonial Loyalist <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_New_York_City" title="Mayor of New York City">New York Mayor</a> David Mathews previously arrested in <a href="/wiki/Flatbush,_Brooklyn" class="mw-redirect" title="Flatbush, Brooklyn">Flatbush, Brooklyn</a> for his role in the plot (June 22)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Turtle_Gut_Inlet" title="Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet">Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet</a> (June 29)</li> <li>Largest assembly of British naval fleet in history commences off the coasts of <a href="/wiki/Staten_Island" title="Staten Island">Staten Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a> and New Jersey (July 3)</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Declaration_of_Independence_(1819),_by_John_Trumbull.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Declaration_of_Independence_%281819%29%2C_by_John_Trumbull.jpg/220px-Declaration_of_Independence_%281819%29%2C_by_John_Trumbull.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Declaration_of_Independence_%281819%29%2C_by_John_Trumbull.jpg/330px-Declaration_of_Independence_%281819%29%2C_by_John_Trumbull.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Declaration_of_Independence_%281819%29%2C_by_John_Trumbull.jpg/440px-Declaration_of_Independence_%281819%29%2C_by_John_Trumbull.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="1970" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_(Trumbull)" class="mw-redirect" title="Declaration of Independence (Trumbull)">Declaration of Independence</a></i>, 1819 painting by <a href="/wiki/John_Trumbull" title="John Trumbull">John Trumbull</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Second Continental Congress enacts (July 2) a <a href="/wiki/Lee_Resolution" title="Lee Resolution">resolution declaring independence</a> from the British Empire, and then approves (July 4) the written "United States Declaration of Independence"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sons_of_Liberty" title="Sons of Liberty">Sons of Liberty</a> topple the statue of <a href="/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="George III of the United Kingdom">King George III</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bowling_Green_(New_York_City)" title="Bowling Green (New York City)">Bowling Green</a> (July 9)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Island" title="Battle of Long Island">Battle of Long Island</a>, a.k.a. <i>Battle of Brooklyn</i> (August 27)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prisoners_of_war_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War" title="Prisoners of war in the American Revolutionary War">British prison ships</a> begin in <a href="/wiki/Wallabout_Bay" title="Wallabout Bay">Wallabout Bay</a>, New York</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staten_Island_Peace_Conference" title="Staten Island Peace Conference">Staten Island Peace Conference</a> (September 11)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Landing_at_Kip%27s_Bay" title="Landing at Kip's Bay">Landing at Kip's Bay</a> (September 15)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Harlem_Heights" title="Battle of Harlem Heights">Battle of Harlem Heights</a> (September 16)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Fire_of_New_York_(1776)" title="Great Fire of New York (1776)">Great Fire of New York</a> (September 21–22)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathan_Hale" title="Nathan Hale">Nathan Hale</a> captured and executed for <a href="/wiki/Espionage" title="Espionage">espionage</a> (September 22)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Valcour_Island" title="Battle of Valcour Island">Battle of Valcour Island</a> (October 11)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pell%27s_Point" title="Battle of Pell's Point">Battle of Pell's Point</a> (October 18)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_White_Plains" title="Battle of White Plains">Battle of White Plains</a> (October 29)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Cumberland" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Fort Cumberland">Battle of Fort Cumberland</a> (November 10–29)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Washington" title="Battle of Fort Washington">Battle of Fort Washington</a> (November 16)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Lee_Historic_Park" title="Fort Lee Historic Park">Battle of Fort Lee</a> (November 20)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ambush_of_Geary" title="Ambush of Geary">Ambush of Geary</a> (December 14)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Iron_Works_Hill" title="Battle of Iron Works Hill">Battle of Iron Works Hill</a> (December 23–26)</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_by_Emanuel_Leutze,_MMA-NYC,_1851.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_by_Emanuel_Leutze%2C_MMA-NYC%2C_1851.jpg/220px-Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_by_Emanuel_Leutze%2C_MMA-NYC%2C_1851.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="126" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_by_Emanuel_Leutze%2C_MMA-NYC%2C_1851.jpg/330px-Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_by_Emanuel_Leutze%2C_MMA-NYC%2C_1851.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_by_Emanuel_Leutze%2C_MMA-NYC%2C_1851.jpg/440px-Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_by_Emanuel_Leutze%2C_MMA-NYC%2C_1851.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4313" data-file-height="2473" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_(1851_painting)" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 painting)">Washington Crossing the Delaware</a></i>, painting 1851 by <a href="/wiki/Emanuel_Leutze" title="Emanuel Leutze">Emanuel Leutze</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Trenton" title="Battle of Trenton">Battle of Trenton</a> (December 26)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1777">1777</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: 1777"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Assunpink_Creek" title="Battle of the Assunpink Creek">Battle of the Assunpink Creek</a>, also known as the Second Battle of Trenton (January 2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Princeton" title="Battle of Princeton">Battle of Princeton</a> (January 3)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> enters second winter encampment of the war at <a href="/wiki/Morristown_National_Historical_Park" title="Morristown National Historical Park">Morristown</a> (January 6)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forage_War" title="Forage War">Forage War</a> (January–March): <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Millstone" title="Battle of Millstone">Battle of Millstone</a> (January 20)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Drake%27s_Farm" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Drake's Farm">Battle of Drake's Farm</a> (February 1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Quibbletown" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Quibbletown">Battle of Quibbletown</a> (February 8)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Spanktown" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Spanktown">Battle of Spanktown</a> (February 23)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bound_Brook" title="Battle of Bound Brook">Battle of Bound Brook</a> (April 13)</li> <li>British regulars, under Major General <a href="/wiki/William_Tryon" title="William Tryon">William Tryon</a>, burn and loot <a href="/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut" title="Danbury, Connecticut">Danbury, Connecticut</a> (April 26)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ridgefield" title="Battle of Ridgefield">Battle of Ridgefield</a> (April 27)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Thomas_Creek" title="Battle of Thomas Creek">Battle of Thomas Creek</a> (May 17)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meigs_Raid" title="Meigs Raid">Meigs Raid</a> (May 23)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Middlebrook_encampment" class="mw-redirect" title="First Middlebrook encampment">First Middlebrook encampment</a> (May 28 – July 2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Short_Hills" title="Battle of Short Hills">Battle of Short Hills</a> (June 26)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Ticonderoga" title="Fort Ticonderoga">Fort Ticonderoga</a> abandoned by the Americans due to advancing British troops placing cannon on <a href="/wiki/Mount_Defiance_(New_York)" title="Mount Defiance (New York)">Mount Defiance</a> (July 5)</li> <li>British retake <a href="/wiki/Fort_Ticonderoga" title="Fort Ticonderoga">Fort Ticonderoga</a> (July 6)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hubbardton" title="Battle of Hubbardton">Battle of Hubbardton</a> (July 7)</li> <li>Delegates in Vermont, which was not one of the <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">Thirteen Colonies</a>, establish a <a href="/wiki/Vermont_Republic" title="Vermont Republic">republic</a> and adopt a <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Vermont_(1777)" title="Constitution of Vermont (1777)">constitution</a>, the first in what is now the territory of the United States to prohibit <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a> (July 8)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Anne" title="Battle of Fort Anne">Battle of Fort Anne</a> (July 8)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Stanwix" title="Siege of Fort Stanwix">Siege of Fort Stanwix</a> (August 2–23)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Oriskany" title="Battle of Oriskany">Battle of Oriskany</a> (August 6)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Machias_(1777)" title="Battle of Machias (1777)">Battle of Machias (1777)</a> (August 13–14)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bennington" title="Battle of Bennington">Battle of Bennington</a> (August 16)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Staten_Island" title="Battle of Staten Island">Battle of Staten Island</a> (August 22)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Henry_(1777)" title="Siege of Fort Henry (1777)">Siege of Fort Henry</a> (September 1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cooch%27s_Bridge" title="Battle of Cooch's Bridge">Battle of Cooch's Bridge</a> (September 3)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Brandywine" title="Battle of Brandywine">Battle of Brandywine</a> (September 11)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Clouds" title="Battle of the Clouds">Battle of the Clouds</a> (September 16)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Paoli" title="Battle of Paoli">Battle of Paoli</a> (Paoli Massacre) (September 20)</li> <li>British occupation of <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_campaign" title="Philadelphia campaign">Philadelphia</a> (September 26)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Germantown" title="Battle of Germantown">Battle of Germantown</a> (October 4)</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Surrender_of_General_Burgoyne.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Surrender_of_General_Burgoyne.jpg/220px-Surrender_of_General_Burgoyne.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Surrender_of_General_Burgoyne.jpg/330px-Surrender_of_General_Burgoyne.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Surrender_of_General_Burgoyne.jpg/440px-Surrender_of_General_Burgoyne.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="1987" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Surrender_of_General_Burgoyne" title="Surrender of General Burgoyne">Surrender of General Burgoyne</a></i>, 1821 painting by <a href="/wiki/John_Trumbull" title="John Trumbull">John Trumbull</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Forts_Clinton_and_Montgomery" title="Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery">Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery</a> (October 6)</li> <li>Two <a href="/wiki/Battles_of_Saratoga" title="Battles of Saratoga">Battles of Saratoga</a> (September 19 and October 7) conclude with the surrender of the British army under <a href="/wiki/John_Burgoyne" title="John Burgoyne">General Burgoyne</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Red_Bank" title="Battle of Red Bank">Battle of Red Bank</a> (October 22)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation" title="Articles of Confederation">Articles of Confederation</a> adopted by the Second Continental Congress (November 15)</li> <li>Capture of <a href="/wiki/Fort_Mifflin" title="Fort Mifflin">Fort Mifflin</a>, (November 16) and <a href="/wiki/Fort_Mercer" title="Fort Mercer">Fort Mercer</a>, (November 18)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gloucester_(1777)" title="Battle of Gloucester (1777)">Battle of Gloucester (1777)</a> (November 25)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_White_Marsh" title="Battle of White Marsh">Battle of White Marsh</a> (December 5 – December 8)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Matson%27s_Ford" title="Battle of Matson's Ford">Battle of Matson's Ford</a> (December 11)</li> <li>Rivington's Gazetter renamed Royal Gazette (December 13)</li> <li>Continental Army in third winter quarters at <a href="/wiki/Valley_Forge" title="Valley Forge">Valley Forge</a> (December 19, 1777 – June 19, 1778)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1778">1778</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: 1778"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Amity_and_Commerce_(United_States%E2%80%93France)" class="mw-redirect" title="Treaty of Amity and Commerce (United States–France)">Treaty of Amity and Commerce</a> and <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Alliance_(1778)" title="Treaty of Alliance (1778)">Treaty of Alliance</a> with France (February 6)</li> <li>France is the first foreign country to recognise the flag of the United States, on the ship of <a href="/wiki/John_Paul_Jones" title="John Paul Jones">John Paul Jones</a> (February 14)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Quinton%27s_Bridge" title="Battle of Quinton's Bridge">Battle of Quinton's Bridge</a> (March 18)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Paul_Jones" title="John Paul Jones">John Paul Jones</a>, in command of the <i>Ranger</i>, attacks <a href="/wiki/Whitehaven" title="Whitehaven">Whitehaven</a> in England, America's first naval engagement outside North America (April 20)</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Hudson_River_Chain" class="mw-redirect" title="Hudson River Chain">Great Chain</a> across the Hudson is completed (April 30)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Crooked_Billet" title="Battle of Crooked Billet">Battle of Crooked Billet</a> (May 1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Barren_Hill" title="Battle of Barren Hill">Battle of Barren Hill</a> (May 20)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cobleskill" title="Battle of Cobleskill">Battle of Cobleskill</a> (May 30)</li> <li>British forces withdraw from <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> (June 18)</li> <li>Whaleboat attack on <a href="/wiki/Flatbush,_Brooklyn" class="mw-redirect" title="Flatbush, Brooklyn">Flatbush, Brooklyn</a> to kidnap New York Mayor <a href="/wiki/David_Mathews" title="David Mathews">David Mathews</a> and other British and Loyalist figures partially succeeds in securing Captain <a href="/wiki/James_Moncrief" title="James Moncrief">James Moncrief</a> and Theophylact Bache, President of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Chamber_of_Commerce" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Chamber of Commerce">New York Chamber of Commerce</a>, for future prisoner exchange (June)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Monmouth" title="Battle of Monmouth">Battle of Monmouth</a> (June 28)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wyoming" title="Battle of Wyoming">Battle of Wyoming</a> (July 3)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ushant_(1778)" title="Battle of Ushant (1778)">Battle of Ushant</a> (July 27)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rhode_Island" title="Battle of Rhode Island">Battle of Rhode Island</a> (August 29)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baylor_Massacre" title="Baylor Massacre">Baylor Massacre</a> (September 27)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culper_Spy_Ring" class="mw-redirect" title="Culper Spy Ring">Culper Spy Ring</a> is begun (October)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Chestnut_Neck" title="Battle of Chestnut Neck">Battle of Chestnut Neck</a> (October 6)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Affair_at_Little_Egg_Harbor" title="Affair at Little Egg Harbor">Affair at Little Egg Harbor</a> (October 15)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherry_Valley_massacre" title="Cherry Valley massacre">Cherry Valley massacre</a> (November 11)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Savannah" title="Capture of Savannah">Capture of Savannah</a>, British successfully launch their <a href="/wiki/Southern_theater_of_the_American_Revolutionary_War" title="Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War">southern strategy</a> (December 29)</li> <li>Majority of Continental Army in fourth winter quarters at <a href="/wiki/Middlebrook_Cantonment" class="mw-redirect" title="Middlebrook Cantonment">Middlebrook Cantonment</a> (November 30, 1778 – June 3, 1779)</li> <li>Major General <a href="/wiki/Israel_Putnam" title="Israel Putnam">Israel Putnam</a> chooses <a href="/wiki/Putnam_Memorial_State_Park" title="Putnam Memorial State Park">Redding, Connecticut</a> as his winter encampment to keep an eye on the storehouses in <a href="/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut" title="Danbury, Connecticut">Danbury, Connecticut</a> (1778–1779)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1779">1779</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: 1779"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Beaufort" title="Battle of Beaufort">Battle of Beaufort</a> (February 3, 1779)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kettle_Creek" title="Battle of Kettle Creek">Battle of Kettle Creek</a> (February 14)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Vincennes" title="Siege of Fort Vincennes">Siege of Fort Vincennes</a> (February 23–25)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chesapeake_raid" title="Chesapeake raid">Chesapeake raid</a> (May 10–24)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stono_Ferry" title="Battle of Stono Ferry">Battle of Stono Ferry</a> (June 20)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tryon%27s_raid" title="Tryon's raid">Tryon's raid</a> (July 3–14) <ul><li>Tryon's division lands in <a href="/wiki/East_Haven,_Connecticut" title="East Haven, Connecticut">East Haven, Connecticut</a>, met with spirited resistance from a band of local militia, take <a href="/wiki/Fort_Nathan_Hale" title="Fort Nathan Hale">Black Rock Fort</a> (July 5)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burning_of_Fairfield_(1779)" title="Burning of Fairfield (1779)">Battle of Fairfield</a> destroys 54 barns, 47 storehouses, burned 83 homes, two churches, and municipal buildings including a schoolhouse, the courthouse and the local jail (July 7)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Norwalk" title="Battle of Norwalk">Battle of Norwalk</a> weakly opposed by about 50 local militia, easily dispersed. The destruction of the village and its commercial infrastructure destroyed (July 11)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stony_Point" title="Battle of Stony Point">Battle of Stony Point</a> (July 16)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Minisink" title="Battle of Minisink">Battle of Minisink</a> (July 22)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penobscot_Expedition" title="Penobscot Expedition">Penobscot Expedition</a> (July 24 – August 14)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Paulus_Hook" title="Battle of Paulus Hook">Battle of Paulus Hook</a> (August 19)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sullivan_Expedition" title="Sullivan Expedition">Sullivan Expedition</a> (June 18 – October 3) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Newtown" title="Battle of Newtown">Battle of Newtown</a> (August 29)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Savannah" title="Siege of Savannah">Siege of Savannah</a> (September 16 – October 18)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Baton_Rouge_(1779)" title="Battle of Baton Rouge (1779)">Battle of Baton Rouge</a> (September 21)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Flamborough_Head" title="Battle of Flamborough Head">Battle of Flamborough Head</a> (September 23)</li> <li>Continental Army in fifth winter quarters at <a href="/wiki/Morristown_National_Historical_Park" title="Morristown National Historical Park">Morristown</a> (December 1779 – May 1780)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1780s">1780s</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: 1780s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1780">1780</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: 1780"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Surrender_of_Lord_Cornwallis.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Surrender_of_Lord_Cornwallis.jpg/300px-Surrender_of_Lord_Cornwallis.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Surrender_of_Lord_Cornwallis.jpg/450px-Surrender_of_Lord_Cornwallis.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Surrender_of_Lord_Cornwallis.jpg/600px-Surrender_of_Lord_Cornwallis.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="1978" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Surrender_of_Lord_Cornwallis" title="Surrender of Lord Cornwallis">Surrender of Lord Cornwallis</a></i> at Yorktown, 1820 painting by <a href="/wiki/John_Trumbull" title="John Trumbull">John Trumbull</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Congress establishes the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Appeals_in_Cases_of_Capture" title="Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture">Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture</a> to provide for final adjudication of appeals from state court <a href="/wiki/Prize_(law)" title="Prize (law)">prize</a> cases involving disposition of ships and cargo allegedly seized from the British (January 15)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_St._Vincent_(1780)" title="Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780)">Battle of Cape St. Vincent</a> (January 16)</li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/Stockade" title="Stockade">stockade</a> known as <a href="/wiki/Fort_Nashborough" title="Fort Nashborough">Fort Nashborough</a> is founded on the <a href="/wiki/Bank_(geography)" title="Bank (geography)">banks</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Cumberland_River" title="Cumberland River">Cumberland River</a> (January 28). Two years later, the site is renamed <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville</a></li> <li>Some 8,000 British forces under General <a href="/wiki/Henry_Clinton_(British_Army_officer,_born_1730)" title="Henry Clinton (British Army officer, born 1730)">Henry Clinton</a> arrive in <a href="/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston, South Carolina</a>, from New York (February 1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a> <a href="/wiki/State_cessions" title="State cessions">cedes</a> to Congress its western claims, including territory west of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Ontario" title="Lake Ontario">Lake Ontario</a> (February 1). In 1792, New York will sell the <a href="/wiki/Erie_Triangle" title="Erie Triangle">Erie Triangle</a> to <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Young%27s_House" title="Battle of Young's House">Battle of Young's House</a> (February 3) (In the north)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Charlotte" title="Battle of Fort Charlotte">Bombardment of Fort Charlotte</a>, after a two-week <a href="/wiki/Siege" title="Siege">siege</a>, Spanish general, <a href="/wiki/List_of_colonial_governors_of_Louisiana" title="List of colonial governors of Louisiana">colonial governor of Louisiana</a>, and <a href="/wiki/List_of_viceroys_of_New_Spain" title="List of viceroys of New Spain">Viceroy of New Spain</a> <a href="/wiki/Bernardo_de_G%C3%A1lvez,_1st_Viscount_of_Galveston" class="mw-redirect" title="Bernardo de Gálvez, 1st Viscount of Galveston">Bernardo de Gálvez</a> captures <a href="/wiki/Fort_Charlotte,_Mobile" title="Fort Charlotte, Mobile">Fort Charlotte</a>, taking the port of <a href="/wiki/Mobile,_Alabama" title="Mobile, Alabama">Mobile</a> (in present-day <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a>) from the British (March 14). Fort Charlotte was the last remaining British frontier post capable of threatening <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a> in <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_(New_Spain)" title="Louisiana (New Spain)">Spanish Louisiana</a>. Its fall drove the British from the western reaches of <a href="/wiki/West_Florida" title="West Florida">West Florida</a> and reduced the British military presence in West Florida to its capital, <a href="/wiki/Pensacola,_Florida" title="Pensacola, Florida">Pensacola</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Charleston" title="Siege of Charleston">Siege of Charleston</a> (March 29 – May 12) <ul><li>British Army troops under General Henry Clinton and naval forces under Admiral <a href="/wiki/Mariot_Arbuthnot" title="Mariot Arbuthnot">Mariot Arbuthnot</a> besiege <a href="/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston, South Carolina</a>. British ships sail past <a href="/wiki/Fort_Moultrie" title="Fort Moultrie">Fort Moultrie</a> on <a href="/wiki/Sullivan%27s_Island,_South_Carolina" title="Sullivan's Island, South Carolina">Sullivan's Island</a> to occupy <a href="/wiki/Charleston_Harbor" title="Charleston Harbor">Charleston Harbor</a> (April 8)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Monck%27s_Corner" title="Battle of Monck's Corner">Battle of Monck's Corner</a> (April 14)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lenud%27s_Ferry" title="Battle of Lenud's Ferry">Battle of Lenud's Ferry</a> (May 6)</li> <li>Fort Moultrie falls to the British (May 7)</li> <li>American General <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Lincoln" title="Benjamin Lincoln">Benjamin Lincoln</a> surrenders Charleston to the British. The British lose 255 men while capturing a large American garrison (May 12)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bird%27s_invasion_of_Kentucky" title="Bird's invasion of Kentucky">Bird's invasion of Kentucky</a> (May 25 – August 4) (In the west)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waxhaws" title="Battle of Waxhaws">Battle of Waxhaws</a>; a clash between <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> forces under <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Buford" title="Abraham Buford">Abraham Buford</a> and a mainly <a href="/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution)" title="Loyalist (American Revolution)">Loyalist</a> force led by <a href="/wiki/Banastre_Tarleton" title="Banastre Tarleton">Banastre Tarleton</a> occurs near <a href="/wiki/Lancaster,_South_Carolina" title="Lancaster, South Carolina">Lancaster, South Carolina</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Waxhaws" title="Waxhaws">Waxhaws</a> area (close to present-day <a href="/wiki/Buford,_South_Carolina" title="Buford, South Carolina">Buford</a>). The British destroyed the American forces (May 29)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander%27s_Old_Field&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alexander's Old Field (page does not exist)">Alexander's Old Field</a> in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Beckhamville,_South_Carolina&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Beckhamville, South Carolina (page does not exist)">Beckhamville, South Carolina</a> (June 6)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Connecticut_Farms" title="Battle of Connecticut Farms">Battle of Connecticut Farms</a> (June 7) (In the north)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mobley%27s_Meeting_House" title="Battle of Mobley's Meeting House">Battle of Mobley's Meeting House</a> (June 10)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ramsour%27s_Mill" title="Battle of Ramsour's Mill">Battle of Ramsour's Mill</a> (June 20)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Springfield_(1780)" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Springfield (1780)">Battle of Springfield</a>; with the attempted British invasion of New Jersey stopped at Connecticut Farms and Springfield, major fighting in the North ends (June 23)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Morris_(financier)" title="Robert Morris (financier)">Robert Morris</a> is appointed <a href="/wiki/Superintendent_of_Finance_of_the_United_States" title="Superintendent of Finance of the United States">Superintendent of Finance</a>, a post akin to Prime Minister, by Congress (June 27)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exp%C3%A9dition_Particuli%C3%A8re" title="Expédition Particulière">Expédition Particulière</a> (July 11)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Williamson%27s_Plantation" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Williamson's Plantation">Battle of Williamson's Plantation</a> (AKA <a href="/wiki/Huck%27s_Defeat" title="Huck's Defeat">Huck's Defeat</a>) (July 12)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bull%27s_Ferry" title="Battle of Bull's Ferry">Battle of Bull's Ferry</a> (July 20–21) (In the north)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Colson%27s_Mill" title="Battle of Colson's Mill">Battle of Colson's Mill</a> (July 21)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rocky_Mount" title="Battle of Rocky Mount">Battle of Rocky Mount</a> (August 1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hanging_Rock" title="Battle of Hanging Rock">Battle of Hanging Rock</a> (August 6)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Piqua" title="Battle of Piqua">Battle of Piqua</a> (August 8) (In the west)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Camden" title="Battle of Camden">Battle of Camden</a>, British General <a href="/wiki/Charles_Cornwallis,_1st_Marquess_Cornwallis" title="Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis">Cornwallis</a> gains a humiliating victory over <a href="/wiki/Horatio_Gates" title="Horatio Gates">Gates</a> in South Carolina (August 16)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fishing_Creek" title="Battle of Fishing Creek">Battle of Fishing Creek</a> (August 18)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Musgrove_Mill" title="Battle of Musgrove Mill">Battle of Musgrove Mill</a> (August 18)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Black_Mingo" title="Battle of Black Mingo">Battle of Black Mingo</a> (August 28)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wahab%27s_Plantation" title="Battle of Wahab's Plantation">Battle of Wahab's Plantation</a> (September 21)</li> <li>Major <a href="/wiki/John_Andr%C3%A9" title="John André">John André</a> captured and the treason of <a href="/wiki/Benedict_Arnold" title="Benedict Arnold">Benedict Arnold</a> is exposed (September 23)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Charlotte" title="Battle of Charlotte">Battle of Charlotte</a> (September 26)</li> <li>John André executed as a spy (October 2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kings_Mountain" title="Battle of Kings Mountain">Battle of Kings Mountain</a> (October 7)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royalton_Raid" class="mw-redirect" title="Royalton Raid">Royalton Raid</a> (October 16)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Klock%27s_Field" title="Battle of Klock's Field">Battle of Klock's Field</a> (October 19)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fishdam_Ford" title="Battle of Fishdam Ford">Battle of Fishdam Ford</a> (November 9)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Blackstock%27s_Farm" title="Battle of Blackstock's Farm">Battle of Blackstock's Farm</a> (November 20)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> enters sixth winter with encampments in <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Hudson_Highlands" title="Hudson Highlands">Hudson Highlands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pompton_Lakes,_New_Jersey" title="Pompton Lakes, New Jersey">Pompton</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Morristown_National_Historical_Park" title="Morristown National Historical Park">Morristown</a>, New Jersey (December)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1781">1781</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: 1781"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The future <a href="/wiki/King_William_IV" class="mw-redirect" title="King William IV">King William IV</a>, the only active member of the <a href="/wiki/British_Royal_Family" class="mw-redirect" title="British Royal Family">British Royal Family</a> to visit the former 13 colonies, takes up residence in the <a href="/wiki/Rose_and_Crown_Tavern" title="Rose and Crown Tavern">Rose and Crown Tavern</a> on Staten Island.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Line_Mutiny" title="Pennsylvania Line Mutiny">Pennsylvania Line Mutiny</a> (January 1–29)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Richmond" title="Raid on Richmond">Raid on Richmond</a> (January 1–19)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cowpens" title="Battle of Cowpens">Battle of Cowpens</a> (January 17)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pompton_Mutiny" title="Pompton Mutiny">Pompton Mutiny</a> (January 20)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cowan%27s_Ford" title="Battle of Cowan's Ford">Battle of Cowan's Ford</a> (February 1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyle%27s_Massacre" title="Pyle's Massacre">Pyle's Massacre</a> (February 24)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation" title="Articles of Confederation">Articles of Confederation</a> ratified (March 1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skirmish_at_Waters_Creek" title="Skirmish at Waters Creek">Skirmish at Waters Creek</a> (March 8)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Guilford_Court_House" title="Battle of Guilford Court House">Battle of Guilford Court House</a> (March 15)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Henry" title="Battle of Cape Henry">Battle of Cape Henry</a> (March 16)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Watson" title="Siege of Fort Watson">Siege of Fort Watson</a> (April 15 - April 23)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Blandford" title="Battle of Blandford">Battle of Blandford</a> (April 25)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hobkirk%27s_Hill" title="Battle of Hobkirk's Hill">Battle of Hobkirk's Hill</a> (April 25)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Action_at_Osborne%27s" title="Action at Osborne's">Action at Osborne's</a> (April 27)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Motte" title="Siege of Fort Motte">Siege of Fort Motte</a> (May 8–12)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Augusta" title="Siege of Augusta">Siege of Augusta</a> (May 22 – June 6)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Ninety-Six" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of Ninety-Six">Siege of Ninety-Six</a> (May 22 – June 19)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Point_of_Fork_Arsenal" title="Point of Fork Arsenal">Raid of Point of Fork</a> (June 5)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Spencer%27s_Ordinary" title="Battle of Spencer's Ordinary">Battle of Spencer's Ordinary</a> (June 26)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Green_Spring" title="Battle of Green Spring">Battle of Green Spring</a> (July 6)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francisco%27s_Fight" title="Francisco's Fight">Francisco's Fight</a> (July 9–24)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Chesapeake" title="Battle of the Chesapeake">Battle of the Chesapeake</a> (September 5)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Groton_Heights" title="Battle of Groton Heights">Battle of Groton Heights</a> (September 6)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Eutaw_Springs" title="Battle of Eutaw Springs">Battle of Eutaw Springs</a> (September 8)</li> <li>The British surrender at <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown" title="Siege of Yorktown">Yorktown</a> (October 19)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> returns to <a href="/wiki/Hudson_Highlands" title="Hudson Highlands">Hudson Highlands</a> and <a href="/wiki/Morristown_National_Historical_Park" title="Morristown National Historical Park">Morristown</a> New Jersey for its seventh winter encampment (December)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bank_of_North_America" title="Bank of North America">Bank of North America</a> chartered (December 31)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1782">1782</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: 1782"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The British House of Commons votes against further war, informally <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_date_of_recognition_of_the_United_States" title="List of countries by date of recognition of the United States">recognizing American independence</a> (February 27)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gnadenhutten_massacre" title="Gnadenhutten massacre">Gnadenhutten massacre</a> (March 8)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Little_Mountain" title="Battle of Little Mountain">Battle of Little Mountain</a> (March 22)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newburgh_letter" title="Newburgh letter">Newburgh letter</a> sent to George Washington by <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Nicola" title="Lewis Nicola">Lewis Nicola</a> (May 22)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crawford_expedition" title="Crawford expedition">Crawford expedition</a> (May 25 – June 12)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Bryan_Station" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of Bryan Station">Siege of Bryan Station</a> (August 15–17)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Blue_Licks" title="Battle of Blue Licks">Battle of Blue Licks</a> (August 19)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Combahee_River" title="Battle of the Combahee River">Battle of the Combahee River</a> (August 27)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Henry_(1782)" title="Siege of Fort Henry (1782)">Siege of Fort Henry (1782)</a> (September 11–13)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> moves into its eighth and final winter quarters, at the <a href="/wiki/New_Windsor_Cantonment_State_Historic_Site" title="New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site">New Windsor</a> Cantonment and in the <a href="/wiki/Hudson_Highlands" title="Hudson Highlands">Hudson Highlands</a> (November)</li> <li>Preliminary Articles of Peace are signed by British negotiator <a href="/wiki/Richard_Oswald_(merchant)" title="Richard Oswald (merchant)">Richard Oswald</a> and representatives of the United States of America (November 30)</li> <li>British evacuate <a href="/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston, South Carolina</a> (December 14)</li> <li>Last skirmish of the conflict takes place near <a href="/wiki/Cedar_Bridge_Tavern" title="Cedar Bridge Tavern">Cedar Bridge Tavern</a> in <a href="/wiki/Barnegat_Township,_New_Jersey" title="Barnegat Township, New Jersey">Barnegat Township, New Jersey</a> (December 27)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1783">1783</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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York)">British evacuate New York</a>, marking the end of British rule. British loyalist refugees retreat to <a href="/wiki/History_of_Canada#American_Revolution_and_the_Loyalists" title="History of Canada">Quebec and Nova Scotia</a>. General George Washington triumphantly returns with the Continental Army (November 25).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington%27s_resignation_as_commander-in-chief" title="George Washington's resignation as commander-in-chief">George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief</a> of the Continental Army (December 23)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1784">1784</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: 1784"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Ratification_Day_(United_States)" title="Ratification Day (United States)">Treaty of Paris is ratified</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_the_Confederation" title="Congress of the Confederation">Congress</a> (January 14) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jay%E2%80%93Gardoqui_Treaty" title="Jay–Gardoqui Treaty">Jay–Gardoqui Treaty</a> with Spain fails to be ratified. Negotiations continued until 1786</li></ul></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1783)" title="Treaty of Paris (1783)">Treaty of Paris</a> is ratified by the British (April 9)</li> <li>Ratified treaties are exchanged in <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> between the two nations (May 12)</li> <li>"The State of Frankland," later known as <a href="/wiki/State_of_Franklin" title="State of Franklin">Franklin</a>, secedes from North Carolina (August 23)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Morris_(financier)" title="Robert Morris (financier)">Robert Morris</a> resigns as <a href="/wiki/Superintendent_of_Finance_of_the_United_States" title="Superintendent of Finance of the United States">Superintendent of Finance</a> and is not replaced (November 1)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1785">1785</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: 1785"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Congress refuses admission of the <a href="/wiki/State_of_Franklin" title="State of Franklin">State of Franklin</a> to the Union (May 16)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Hopewell" title="Treaty of Hopewell">Treaty of Hopewell</a> (November 28)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1786">1786</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: 1786"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shays%27_Rebellion" class="mw-redirect" title="Shays' Rebellion">Shays' Rebellion</a> (August 29 – June 1787)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annapolis_Convention_(1786)" title="Annapolis Convention (1786)">Annapolis Convention</a> fails (September 11–14)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1787">1787</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: 1787"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Northwest_Ordinance" title="Northwest Ordinance">Northwest Ordinance</a> enacted (July 13)</li></ul> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scene_at_the_Signing_of_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Scene_at_the_Signing_of_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States.jpg/300px-Scene_at_the_Signing_of_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Scene_at_the_Signing_of_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States.jpg/450px-Scene_at_the_Signing_of_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Scene_at_the_Signing_of_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States.jpg/600px-Scene_at_the_Signing_of_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="1933" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Scene_at_the_Signing_of_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States">Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States</a></i>, by <a href="/wiki/Howard_Chandler_Christy" title="Howard Chandler Christy">Howard Chandler Christy</a> (1940)</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Constitutional_Convention_(United_States)" title="Constitutional Convention (United States)">Constitutional Convention</a> in Philadelphia (May 25 - September 17)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delaware" title="Delaware">Delaware</a> (December 7), <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> (December 12), and <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a> (December 18) ratify the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">Constitution</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1788">1788</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: 1788"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>North Carolina reasserted it claim to its Overmountain region, at which time Franklin ceases to exist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a> ratify the Constitution</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">United States Constitution</a> ratified (June 21)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyrus_Griffin" title="Cyrus Griffin">Cyrus Griffin</a> resigns as "President of the United States in Congress Assembled" (November 2), and with the exceptions of <a href="/wiki/John_Jay" title="John Jay">John Jay</a> and John Knox remaining as Secretaries of Foreign Affairs and War respectively; and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Hillegas" title="Michael Hillegas">Michael Hillegas</a> remaining as Treasurer, the United States of America temporarily ceases to exist.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>The first federal Elections for the House of Representatives begin</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1788%E2%80%9389_United_States_presidential_election" title="1788–89 United States presidential election">1788–89 United States presidential election</a> (December 15, 1788 – January 10, 1789). <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> is elected president, and <a href="/wiki/John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a> is elected vice president.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1789">1789</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: 1789"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Pell" title="Philip Pell">Philip Pell</a>, only member in attendance, adjourns the <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_the_Confederation" title="Congress of the Confederation">Congress of the Confederation</a> <a href="/wiki/Adjournment_sine_die" title="Adjournment sine die"><i>sine die</i></a> (March 2)</li> <li>Members of the <a href="/wiki/1st_United_States_Congress" title="1st United States Congress">1st United States Congress</a> begin to take their seats at <a href="/wiki/Federal_Hall" title="Federal Hall">Federal Hall</a>, New York (March 4)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives#18th_century" title="History of the United States House of Representatives">House of Representatives</a> first achieves a quorum and elects its officers (April 1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Senate" title="History of the United States Senate">Senate</a> first achieves a quorum and elects its officers (April 6)</li> <li>Joint session of Congress counts the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College" title="United States Electoral College">Electoral College</a> ballots, certifies that George Washington has been unanimously elected <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a> (April 6)</li> <li>Adams becomes the first vice president (April 21)</li> <li>Washington becomes the first president, at <a href="/wiki/Federal_Hall" title="Federal Hall">Federal Hall</a> in New York City (April 30)</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Tariff_of_1789" title="Tariff of 1789">Tariff Act of 1789</a> is signed into law (July 4)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Thomson" title="Charles Thomson">Charles Thomson</a> resigns as secretary of Congress and hands over the Great Seal, bringing an end to the <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_the_Confederation" title="Congress of the Confederation">Confederation Congress</a> (July)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judiciary_Act_of_1789" title="Judiciary Act of 1789">Judiciary Act of 1789</a> (September 24)</li> <li>Congress approves twelve articles of amendment to the Constitution, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights" title="United States Bill of Rights">Bill of Rights</a> (September 25)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> becomes the 12th state to ratify the Constitution, with a vote of 194–77 (November 21)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1790s">1790s</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: 1790s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1791">1791</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: 1791"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights" title="United States Bill of Rights">Bill of Rights</a> ratified. (December 15)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1792">1792</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: 1792"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1792_United_States_presidential_election" title="1792 United States presidential election">1792 United States presidential election</a>: <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> reelected president, <a href="/wiki/John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a> reelected vice president.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1793">1793</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: 1793"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>President Washington and Vice President Adams begin their second terms (March 4).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1795">1795</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: 1795"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jay%27s_Treaty" class="mw-redirect" title="Jay's Treaty">Jay's Treaty</a> ratified in June toward resolving post Revolution tensions between the United States and Great Britain. First use of arbitration in modern diplomatic history for <a href="/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_border" title="Canada–United States border">Canada–United States border</a> disputes.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1796">1796</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: 1796"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Six Northwest Territory forts and two Upstate New York forts that remained under British control are ceded to the United States.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1796_United_States_presidential_election" title="1796 United States presidential election">1796 United States presidential election</a>: <a href="/wiki/John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a> is elected president, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a> elected vice president.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1797">1797</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: 1797"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Adams becomes the second president, Jefferson becomes the second vice president (March 4).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_George_Washington_articles" title="List of George Washington articles">List of George Washington articles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Colonial_America" 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(October 20, 1774). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-01-02-0094">"Continental Association (Articles of Association)"</a>. <i>Founders Online (founders.archives.gov)</i>. 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Congress">Provincial Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Continental_Congress" title="Second Continental Congress">Second Continental Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Colonies" title="United Colonies">United Colonies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olive_Branch_Petition" title="Olive Branch Petition">Olive Branch Petition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Causes_and_Necessity_of_Taking_Up_Arms" title="Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms">Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Committee_of_Secret_Correspondence" title="Committee of Secret Correspondence">Committee of Secret Correspondence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halifax_Resolves" title="Halifax Resolves">Halifax Resolves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_Resolution" title="Lee Resolution">Lee Resolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">Declaration of Independence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Model_Treaty" title="Model Treaty">Model Treaty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation" title="Articles of Confederation">Articles of Confederation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Perpetual_Union" title="Perpetual Union">Perpetual Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congress_of_the_Confederation" title="Congress of the Confederation">Confederation Congress</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/French_and_Indian_War" title="French and Indian War">French and Indian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1763)" title="Treaty of Paris (1763)">Treaty of Paris (1763)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boston_Massacre" title="Boston Massacre">Boston Massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_credit_crisis_of_1772%E2%80%931773" title="British credit crisis of 1772–1773">British credit crisis of 1772–1773</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaspee_affair" title="Gaspee affair">Gaspee affair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hutchinson_letters_affair" title="Hutchinson letters affair">Hutchinson letters affair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party" title="Boston Tea Party">Boston Tea Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Tea_Party" title="Philadelphia Tea Party">Philadelphia Tea Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Powder_Alarm" title="Powder Alarm">Powder Alarm</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div id="*_Combatants_*_Campaigns_*_Theaters_*_Battles_*_Events_*_Colonies" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"> <ul><li>Combatants</li> <li>Campaigns</li> <li>Theaters</li> <li>Battles</li> <li>Events</li> <li>Colonies</li></ul> </div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Combatants</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/United_Colonies" title="United Colonies">United Colonies</a>/<a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">Thirteen Colonies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Congress" title="Continental Congress">Continental Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Navy" title="Continental Navy">Navy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Marines" title="Continental Marines">Marines</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Kingdom of Great Britain</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Great_Britain" title="Parliament of Great Britain">Parliament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Army#Early_British_Empire" title="British Army">British Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy#1707–1815" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germans_in_the_American_Revolution#European_allies_of_Britain" title="Germans in the American Revolution">European allies of King George III</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Colonial allies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War" title="France in the American Revolutionary War">France</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Alliance_(1778)" title="Treaty of Alliance (1778)">Franco-American Treaty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Army" title="French Army">Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Navy" title="French Navy">Navy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roderigue_Hortalez_and_Company" title="Roderigue Hortalez and Company">Hortalez et Cie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germans_in_the_American_Revolution#American_and_European_supporters_of_Congress" title="Germans in the American Revolution">German supporters of Congress</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Campaigns and<br />theaters</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boston_campaign" title="Boston campaign">Boston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Quebec_(1775)" title="Invasion of Quebec (1775)">Quebec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nova_Scotia_in_the_American_Revolution" title="Nova Scotia in the American Revolution">Nova Scotia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_and_New_Jersey_campaign" title="New York and New Jersey campaign">New York and New Jersey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saratoga_campaign" title="Saratoga campaign">Saratoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_campaign" title="Philadelphia campaign">Philadelphia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_theater_of_the_American_Revolutionary_War" title="Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War">Northern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_theater_of_the_American_Revolutionary_War_after_Saratoga" title="Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War after Saratoga">Northern after Saratoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_theater_of_the_American_Revolutionary_War" title="Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War">Southern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_theater_of_the_American_Revolutionary_War" title="Western theater of the American Revolutionary War">Western</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yorktown_campaign" title="Yorktown campaign">Yorktown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naval_battles_of_the_American_Revolutionary_War" title="Naval battles of the American Revolutionary War">Naval battles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Major <a href="/wiki/List_of_American_Revolutionary_War_battles" title="List of American Revolutionary War battles">battles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord" title="Battles of Lexington and Concord">Lexington and Concord</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Boston" title="Siege of Boston">Boston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Fort_Ticonderoga" title="Capture of Fort Ticonderoga">Capture of Fort Ticonderoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bunker_Hill" title="Battle of Bunker Hill">Bunker Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Quebec_(1775)" title="Battle of Quebec (1775)">Quebec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Valcour_Island" title="Battle of Valcour Island">Valcour Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Island" title="Battle of Long Island">Long Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Harlem_Heights" title="Battle of Harlem Heights">Harlem Heights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Washington" title="Battle of Fort Washington">Fort Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Trenton" title="Battle of Trenton">Trenton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Assunpink_Creek" title="Battle of the Assunpink Creek">Assunpink Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Princeton" title="Battle of Princeton">Princeton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Ticonderoga_(1777)" title="Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777)">Siege of Fort Ticonderoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bennington" title="Battle of Bennington">Bennington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battles_of_Saratoga" title="Battles of Saratoga">Saratoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Brandywine" title="Battle of Brandywine">Brandywine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Germantown" title="Battle of Germantown">Germantown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Monmouth" title="Battle of Monmouth">Monmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_St._Lucia" title="Battle of St. Lucia">St. Lucia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Grenada" title="Battle of Grenada">Grenada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stony_Point" title="Battle of Stony Point">Stony Point</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sullivan_Expedition" title="Sullivan Expedition">Sullivan Expedition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Savannah" title="Siege of Savannah">Savannah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Gibraltar" title="Great Siege of Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_St._Vincent_(1780)" title="Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780)">Cape St. Vincent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Charleston" title="Siege of Charleston">Charleston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Connecticut_Farms" title="Battle of Connecticut Farms">Connecticut Farms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Springfield" title="Battle of Springfield">Springfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Camden" title="Battle of Camden">Camden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kings_Mountain" title="Battle of Kings Mountain">Kings Mountain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cowpens" title="Battle of Cowpens">Cowpens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Pensacola" title="Siege of Pensacola">Pensacola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Guilford_Court_House" title="Battle of Guilford Court House">Guilford Court House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lochry%27s_Defeat" title="Lochry's Defeat">Lochry's Defeat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Chesapeake" title="Battle of the Chesapeake">Chesapeake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown" title="Siege of Yorktown">Yorktown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Saintes" title="Battle of the Saintes">The Saintes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Other events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Staten_Island_Peace_Conference" title="Staten Island Peace Conference">Staten Island Peace Conference</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sint_Eustatius#"First_Salute"" title="Sint Eustatius">"First Salute"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington%27s_crossing_of_the_Delaware_River" title="George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River">Washington's crossing of the Delaware River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conway_Cabal" title="Conway Cabal">Conway Cabal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valley_Forge" title="Valley Forge">Valley Forge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franco-American_alliance" title="Franco-American alliance">Entry of France into war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlisle_Peace_Commission" title="Carlisle Peace Commission">Carlisle Peace Commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Riots" title="Gordon Riots">Gordon Riots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Line_Mutiny" title="Pennsylvania Line Mutiny">Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1781</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Sint_Eustatius" title="Capture of Sint Eustatius">Sint Eustatius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newburgh_Conspiracy" title="Newburgh Conspiracy">Newburgh Conspiracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Mutiny_of_1783" title="Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783">Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Related conflicts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee%E2%80%93American_wars" title="Cherokee–American wars">Cherokee–American wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Anglo-Dutch_War" title="Fourth Anglo-Dutch War">Fourth Anglo-Dutch War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Anglo-Mysore_War" title="Second Anglo-Mysore War">Second Anglo-Mysore War</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Involvement <span class="nobold">(by <br />colony or location)</span></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">Rebel colonies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Connecticut#The_American_Revolution_(1775–1789)" title="History of Connecticut">Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delaware_Line" title="Delaware Line">Delaware</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgia_in_the_American_Revolution" title="Georgia in the American Revolution">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maryland_in_the_American_Revolution" title="Maryland in the American Revolution">Maryland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Massachusetts#Revolutionary_Massachusetts:_1760s–1780s" title="History of Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_New_Hampshire#Revolution:_1775–1815" title="History of New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_in_the_American_Revolution" title="New Jersey in the American Revolution">New Jersey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_in_the_American_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="New York in the American Revolution">New York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_in_the_American_Revolution#American_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="North Carolina in the American Revolution">North Carolina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_in_the_American_Revolution" title="Pennsylvania in the American Revolution">Pennsylvania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island_in_the_American_Revolution#Revolutionary_era_1775-1790" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhode Island in the American Revolution">Rhode Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_in_the_American_Revolution" title="South Carolina in the American Revolution">South Carolina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_in_the_American_Revolution#American_Revolution" title="Virginia in the American Revolution">Virginia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Loyal colonies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/East_Florida" title="East Florida">East Florida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nova_Scotia#17th_and_18th_centuries" title="Nova Scotia">Nova Scotia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Province_of_Quebec_(1763%E2%80%931791)" title="Province of Quebec (1763–1791)">Quebec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Florida" title="West Florida">West Florida</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div id="Leaders" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Leaders</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">British</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Military</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mariot_Arbuthnot" title="Mariot Arbuthnot">Arbuthnot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Brant" title="Joseph Brant">Brant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Burgoyne" title="John Burgoyne">Burgoyne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Campbell,_of_Strachur" title="John Campbell, of Strachur">Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Carleton,_1st_Baron_Dorchester" title="Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester">Carleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Clinton_(British_Army_officer,_born_1730)" title="Henry Clinton (British Army officer, born 1730)">Clinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Cornwallis,_1st_Marquess_Cornwallis" title="Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis">Cornwallis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Fraser_of_Lovat" title="Simon Fraser of Lovat">Fraser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Gage" title="Thomas Gage">Gage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Graves,_1st_Baron_Graves" title="Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves">Graves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Howe,_1st_Earl_Howe" title="Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe">Richard Howe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Howe,_5th_Viscount_Howe" title="William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe">William Howe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_von_Knyphausen" title="Wilhelm von Knyphausen">Knyphausen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Rodney,_1st_Baron_Rodney" title="George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney">Rodney</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Civilian</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_III" title="George III">King George III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffery_Amherst,_1st_Baron_Amherst" title="Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst">Amherst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Barrington,_2nd_Viscount_Barrington" title="William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington">Barrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Germain,_1st_Viscount_Sackville" title="George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville">Germain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_North,_Lord_North" title="Frederick North, Lord North">North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Watson-Wentworth,_2nd_Marquess_of_Rockingham" title="Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham">Rockingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sandwich" title="John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich">Sandwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Petty,_2nd_Earl_of_Shelburne" title="William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne">Shelburne</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Colonial</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Military</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Alexander,_Lord_Stirling" title="William Alexander, Lord Stirling">Alexander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethan_Allen" title="Ethan Allen">Allen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benedict_Arnold" title="Benedict Arnold">Arnold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Barry_(naval_officer)" title="John Barry (naval officer)">Barry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Claghorn" title="George Claghorn">Claghorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Rogers_Clark" title="George Rogers Clark">Clark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Leb%C3%A8gue_Duportail" title="Louis Lebègue Duportail">Duportail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horatio_Gates" title="Horatio Gates">Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathanael_Greene" title="Nathanael Greene">Greene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton" title="Alexander Hamilton">Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Esek_Hopkins" title="Esek Hopkins">Hopkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Paul_Jones" title="John Paul Jones">Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johann_de_Kalb" title="Johann de Kalb">de Kalb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Knox" title="Henry Knox">Knox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_Lafayette" title="Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette">Lafayette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Lee_(general)" title="Charles Lee (general)">Charles Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Lincoln" title="Benjamin Lincoln">Lincoln</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Mercer" title="Hugh Mercer">Mercer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Montgomery" title="Richard Montgomery">Montgomery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Nicholson" title="Samuel Nicholson">Nicholson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel_Putnam" title="Israel Putnam">Putnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caesar_Rodney" title="Caesar Rodney">Rodney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_St._Clair" title="Arthur St. Clair">St. Clair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Schuyler" title="Philip Schuyler">Schuyler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_von_Steuben" title="Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben">von Steuben</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Sullivan_(general)" title="John Sullivan (general)">Sullivan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artemas_Ward" title="Artemas Ward">Ward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Wayne" title="Anthony Wayne">Wayne</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7.0em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Civilian</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Adams" title="Samuel Adams">Samuel Adams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Carroll_of_Carrollton" title="Charles Carroll of Carrollton">Carroll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Dickinson" title="John Dickinson">Dickinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hancock" title="John Hancock">Hancock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hanson" title="John Hanson">Hanson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Henry" title="Patrick Henry">Henry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Huntington_(Connecticut_politician)" title="Samuel Huntington (Connecticut politician)">Huntington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Jay" title="John Jay">Jay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Jefferson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Laurens" title="Henry Laurens">Laurens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Henry_Lee" title="Richard Henry Lee">Richard Henry Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_McKean" title="Thomas McKean">McKean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Morris_(financier)" title="Robert Morris (financier)">Morris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Revere" title="Paul Revere">Revere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Rush" title="Benjamin Rush">Rush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Witherspoon" title="John 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