American Revolution Anniversary

In Celebration of the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence,
this page was created to provide ‘Links’ to events related to this celebration, and to sites that contain content/history about the ‘American Revolution’.

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Revolution Timeline

• 1754
  • May 28 – The French and Indian War begins
  • July 10 – Albany Pan of Union — Benjamin Franklin proposes a single government for the colonies
• 1763
  • February 10 – The ‘Treaty of Paris’ ends the French and Indian War. The English drive the French from North America.
• 1764
  • Apris 5 – ‘Sugar Act’ — Smugglers could be tried in Admiralty Courts without the benefit of a jury.
• 1765
  • March 22 – ‘Stamp Act’ — Tax on paper goods and legal documents
  • Marth 24 – ‘Quartering Act’ — Colonies mush provide housing and food for British Troops
  • October 7~25 – ‘Stamp Act Congress’ meets in New York City to discuss crisis
• 1766
  • March 18 – Parliament repeals the Stamp Act and passes the ‘Declaratory Act’, which reiterates Parliament’s authority over the colonies.
• 1768
  • August 1 – ‘Boston Non-Importation Agreement’ — Boston merchants agree to not import British goods, or sell to Britain
• 1770
  • March 5 – Boston Massacre
• 1772
  • June 9 – Gaspee Arrair – A British ship patrolling for smugglers runs aground in Rhode Island and a local mob burns it. The mob is then accused of treason.
• 1773
  • May 10 – ‘Tea Act’ — An attempt by Parliament to undercut smugglers by reducing the price of tea to the colonies.
  • December 16 – ‘Boston Tea Party’
• 1774
  • March 31 – ‘Boston Port Act’ — Parliament closes the city’s port in response to the Tea Party.
  • May 20 – Administration of Justice Act and Massachusetts Government Act, two of the so-called ‘Intolerable Acts’ further anger colonists.
  • June 2 – Quartering Act is amended.
  • Sept 5 ~ Oct 26 – First Continental Congress — Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia
• 1775
  • March 23 – Patrick Henery’s “Liberty of Death” speech in Richmond, VA.
  • April 18 – Revere and Dawes Ride
  • April 19 – Battles of Lexington and Concord,, MA
  • June 15 – George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief
  • June 17 – battle of Bunker Hill
  • July 3 – George Washington assumes command of Army outside Boston
  • July 5 – Congress approves the ‘Olive Branch Petition’, a final attempt to avoid war with Britian
  • October 13 – The U.S. Navy is established
  • November 13 – Americans take Montreal
  • December 31 – Battle of Quebec
• 1776
  • Thomas Paine publishes ‘Common Sense’
  • March 3 – Continental Navy captures New Providence Island, Bahamas
  • March 17 – British evacuate Boston
  • April 112 – Halifax Resolves, NC — First colony to authorize its delegates to vote for independence
  • June 7 – ‘Lee Resolution’ — Richard Henry Lee proposes independence to the Second Continental Congress
  • July 1 – Cherokee attack the southern frontier
  • July 4 – Congress adopts the ‘Declaration of Independence’
  • September 15 – British occupy Manhattan
  • September 16 – Battle of Harlem Heights, NY
  • September 22 – British execute Nathan Hale, a soldier in the Continental Army
  • December 23 – Thomas Paine publishes ‘The American Crisis’
• 1777
  • January 3 – Battle of Princeton, NJ
  • June 14 – Flag Resolution — Congress declared “That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union will be thirteen stars, white in a blue field”
  • July 5 – British capture Fort Ticonderoga
  • September 19 – of Saratoga, NY
  • September 26 – British take Philadelphia
  • October 7 – Battle of Saratoga, NY
  • October 17 – British surrender of Saratoga, NY
  • November 16 – British capture Fort Mifflin, PA
• 1778
  • February 6 – The United States and France become allies
  • February 7 – British General William Howe replaced by Henry Clinton
  • June 18 – British abandon Philadelphia, Continental Army marches out of Valley Forge
  • July 4 -= George Rogers Clark captures Kaskaskia, in modern Illinois
  • July 29 ~ August 31 – French and American forces besiege Newport, RI
  • December 29 – British capture Savannah, GA
• 1779
  • February 3 – Battle of Port Royal Island, SC
  • February 23-24 – George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes, in modern Indiana
  • June 18 – Sullivan expedition attacks Indian villages in NY
  • June 2j1 – Spain declares war on Great Britian
  • July 7 – British burn Fairfield, CT
  • July 11 – British burn Norwalk, CT
  • July 16 – Americans capture Stony Point, NY
  • September 16 ~ October 19 – American/French effort to retake Savannah fails
• 1780
  • January 28 – Fort Nashborough established (now Nashville, TN)
  • March 14 – Spanish capture Mobile
  • May 12 -British capture Charleston, SC
  • May 25 – Mutiny of Connecticut regiments at Morriston, NJ
  • May 26 – Battle at St. Louis, now in Missouri
  • June 23 – Washington’s Main Army leaves their winter camps at Morristown, NJ
  • July 11 – French troops arrive at Newport, RI
  • September 23 – British officer John Andre arrested for spying
  • October 7 – Battle of Kings Mountain, SC
  • October 14 – General Nathanael Greene named commander of the southern Continental Army
  • October 18 – British occupy Wilmington, NC
• 1781
  • January 17 – Battle of Cowpens, NC
  • February 12 – Spanish forces take Fort St. Joseph, now Miles, MI
  • March 2 – ‘Articles of Confederation’ adopted
  • March 15 – Battle of Guilford Courthouse, NC
  • May 9 – Spanish capture Pensacola
  • May 22 ~ June 18 – Siege of Ninety Six, SC
  • June 6 – Americans retake Augusta, GA
  • September 28 ~ October 19 – Siege of Yorktown, VA
  • October 19 – General Cornwallis officially surrenders at Yorktown, VA
• 1782
  • March 8~9 – Indians attacked by milia at Gnadenhutten, in modern OH
  • March 20 – Lord North resigns as Prime Minister of Great Britain
  • April 19 – Netherlands recognizes American independence
  • May 8 – American and Spanish forces capture Nassau, Bahamas
  • July 11 – British evacuate Savannah, GA
  • July 13 – British/Indian reaid on Hannahstown, PA
  • August 7 – Washington establishes the ‘Badge of Military Merit’ , now known as the ‘Purple Heart’
  • November 10 – George Rogers Clark raids Chillicothe, modern OH
  • November 30 – British and Americans sign preliminary Articles of Peace
  • December 14 – British evacuate Charleston, SC
• 1783
  • Washington addresses the Newburgh Conspiracy and discontent in the Continental Army , Newburgh, NY
  • April 19 – Congress ratifies the preliminary peace treaty
  • September 3 – US and Great Britain sigh the ‘Treaty of Paris’
  • November 25 – British evacuate New York City
  • December 4 – Washington bids farwell to his officers in New York City
  • December 23 – Washington resigns as commander in Annapolis, ND
• 1787
  • May 25 ~ September 17 – The Constitution was written, after collective debate by 55 delegates, was signed in Philadelphia in the Assembly Room of the Pennsylvania State House, during the ‘Philadelphia Convention’.
  • September 17 – The Constitution was sighed by the delegates
• 1788
  • June 21 – The Constitution was ratified by New Hampshire, the ninth state to do so, making it the law of the land.
• 1789
  • March 4 – The Constitution officially went into operation