Timeline of Revolutionary Events

By JacksonSwoap

  • Sugar Act (1764)

    April 5, 1764, Colony merchants had to pay a tax on sugar and molasses

  • Currency Act (1764)

    September 1, 1764, regulated paper money to the colonies.

  • Stamp Acts (1765)

    tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used

  • Townsend Act (1767)

    Taxed colonies on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.

  • Boston Massacre (1770)

    March 5, 1770, British solider's shot and killed people while under attack.

  • Tea Act (1773)

    government granted the East India Co. a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies.

  • Boston Tea Party (1773)

    The Sons of Liberty threw tea into the Boston Harbor as protest.

  • Quartering Act (1774)

    Colonial citizens had to give up their houses to British soldiers if commanded to

  • 1st Continental Congress (1774)

    a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies

  • Lexington and Concord (1775)

    the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War/ British won Lexington, Americans won Concord

  • 2nd Continental Congress (1775)

    managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence

  • The Siege of Boston (April 1775- March 1776)

    New England militiamen prevented the movement by land of the British Army garrisoned in what was then the peninsular city of Boston, Massachusetts

  • Intolerable Acts (1776)

    They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests