History Timeline

Sugar/ Coffee Act

Apr 5, 1764

A law placing an act on sugar, molasses, and other products. Coffee Act is an act of Parliament of the Parliament of Great Britain concerning the adulteration of coffee.

Stamp Act

Mar 22, 1765

Commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that the tax had been paid on the goods. England started this act to pay of debt from the French and Indian War. The colonist began to boycott and started a secret society known as the Sons of Liberty.

Quartering Act

May 3, 1765

All colonies had to house all british soldiers and British soldiers were targeted. The Boston Massacre was when British troops killed American colonists.

Stamp Act Congress

Oct 19, 1765

Was an attempt for colonist to express their feeling about the Stamps Acts.

Declaratory Act

Mar 18, 1766

Allowing parliament supreme authority to govern colonies. Also, it caused arguments between parliament and the colonies.

Townshend Acts

Jun 15, 1767

Placed duties on numerous imports. The colonist refused to pay and a new secret society was formed known as the Daughters of Liberty.

Boston Massacre

Mar 5, 1770

When the British soldiers arrived in Boston, tensions erupted into violence. The people of Boston was outraged at what came to be known as the Boston Massacre.

Tea Act

May 10, 1773

British government granted the company a monopoly on the importation and and sale of tea in the colonies.

Boston Tea Party

Dec 16, 1773

A political protest conducted by the Sons of Liberty in protest of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773.

Intolerable Acts

Mar 24, 1774

Set of laws to punish Massachusetts and clamp down on resistance in the other colonies

First Continental Congress

Sep 5, 1774

A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies at Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia early in the American Revolution.

First Continental Congress

Period: Sep 5, 1774 to Oct 26, 1774

2nd Continental Congress

Oct 26, 1774

America’s government during the Revolutionary War. The meeting was in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia.

Battle of Lexington

Apr 19, 1775

One of the first battles of the revolutionary war. This battle was fought in the village of Lexington, a province of Massachuet Bay

Battle of Concord

Apr 19, 1775

Another first battle of the revolutionary war. This battle was fought in a village named Concord a few miles northwest of Boston.

Signing of Declaration of Independance

Jul 4, 1776

A statement announcing that the thirteen colonies were free of Great Britain and were independent.