1770Townshend Acts repealed except the tax on tea
End to Non-Importation
New York Riot over the Quartering Act complience of New York Assembly.
5 March - The Boston Massacre. Crispus Attucks, the first Black American Patriot, is killed in this incident.
1771Battle of Alamance fought in North Carolina
1772Attack on the "Gaspee" - This was a British customs schooner that was burned by Rhode Island colonists off Namquit Point.
Sam Adams pressures the Boston Town Meeting to set up the "Committee of Correspondence" to state the colonies rights and grievances.
John Sevier organizes independent republic of Watauga in Tennessee
1773To save the bankrupt British East India Company, Parliament passes the Tea Act.
5 November - The Boston Town Meeting Resolutions against the Tea Act
16 December - The Boston Tea Party: 342 chests of tea are dumped into Boston Harbor.
31 December - Samual Adams gives an account of the Boston Tea Party in a letter to Arthur Lee.
1774January - Benjamin Franklin is reprimanded and humiliated by the Privy Council for leaking the letters of the Massachusetts Governor, Thomas Hutchinson.
Boston Port closed by Parliamement until the destroyed tea was paid for by those responsible.
The Coercive Acts are passed by Parliament.
Quartering Act: expands the Act of 1765
Virginia Conventions begin.
25 August - The first popular Assembly called by the people, anywhere in North America, convened in defience of British rule in Tyron Palace at New Bern, North Carolina.
5 September - The First Continental Congress opens for business.
7 October - The Quebec Act. This act grants the French Catholics of Quebec the right to freedom of Religion among other assurances.
14 October - Declaration and Resolves by the First Continental Congress
1775New England Restraining Act: Parliament passed an act banning trade between the New England colonies and any other country besides Great Britain.
23 March - Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech by Patrick Henry
18 April - Paul Revere's Famous Midnight Ride
19 April - The American Revolution begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
20 April - The Siege of Boston Begins
5 May - The Second Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia.
Postal system created. Benjamin Franklin is first Director.
10 May - Fort Ticonaroga captured by Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen.
15 May - The Congress votes to go to war with Britain, George Washington is appointed the Commander of the Continental Army.
16 June - Washington accepts promotion to General & Commander In Chief
17 June - Charlestown Massachusetts was burned down by the British.
17 June - Battle of Bunker Hill (Breeds)
Olive Branch Petition
Congress Treats with the Indians
Congress Creates a Navy
Congress searches for Foriegn Aid
6 July - Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms
July - George Washington takes command of the Continental Army in Cambridge Massachusetts.
August - The Invasion of Canada begins.
23 August - King George III issues the Proclamation of Rebellion.
November - Virginia Governor, Lord Dunmore offers freedom to all slaves who would fight for the British.
7 November - Lord Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, declares Martial Law
Virginians defeat British at Great Bridge; British bombard Norfolk
177614 February - Common Sense written by Thomas Paine.
27 February - Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, North Carolina.
17 March Siege of Boston ends when the British pull out and sail for Halifax. The Continental Army is located on Dorchester Heights.
12 June - The Virginia Declaration of Rights adapted by the Virginia Convention. Drafted by George Mason
2 July - Declaration of Independence approved and signed by John Hancock, the other Delegates sign two days later.
8 July - The US Declaration of Independence was read in public for the first
time by Col. John Nixon in Philadelphia's Independence Square. The Liberty Bell in Independence Hall tolled after the reading.
July - British Troops land at New York harbor.
27 August - Battle of Long Island, New York.
6 September - HMS Eagle attacked by David Bushnell's "Turtle". The Turtle was the first attack submarine in history. The pilot was Sgt. Ezra Lee.
15 September - The Battle of New York.
16 September - The Battle of Harlem Heights.
20 September - The Fire of New York.
11-13 October - The Battle of Valcour Island.
28 October - The Battle of White Plains.
14 December - Geary's Dragoons ambushed between the small villages of Flemings-Town (Flemington) and Ringoes.
23 December - The American Crisis written by Thomas Paine.
26 December - Battle of Trenton, New Jersey.
December - Benjamin Franklin is sent by Congress to France to seek French aid for the cause.
1777Congress adopts the American flag with thirteen stars and stripes
3 January - The Battle of Princeton 20 January - The Battle of Millstone, near Sommerset Courthouse, New Jersey.
27 February - Battle of Moores Creek Bridge.
25 April - Danbury, Connecticut destroyed by British forces led by General Tryon.
28 June - Battle of Fort Moultrie
Burgoyne's invasion from Canada begins. It ended in failure at the Battle of Saratoga.
5 July - Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga, The Marques De Lafayette arrives in America.
7 July - Battle of Hubbardtown
27 July - The Jane Mccrea atrocity
2 - 22 August - Battles of Fort Stanwix and Oriskaney
16 August - Battle of Bennington, Vermont.
11 September - Battle of Brandywine Creek
16 September - The Paoli Massacre
19 September - Battle of Freeman's Farm
26 September - British Occupy Philadelphia
4 October - Battle of Germantown
7 October - Battle of Bemis Heights
19 October - The Battle of Saratoga , where General Burgoyne surrenders to General Horatio Gates.
22 October - 15 November The Battles of Forts Mercer and Mifflin.
15 November - Articles of Confederation written.
Philadelphia is captured by the British
Washington's Army retreats to Valley Forge
Conway Cabal
17786 February - Treaty of Paris signed by France and the United States. This treaty turns the American Revolution into a World War.
Savannah Georgia is Captured by the British
12 May - General Benjamin Lincoln, surrenders Charlestown South Carolina to the British
28 June - Battle of Monmouth Courthouse.
1779 British surrender to Americans at Vincennes
John Paul Jones, in Bon Homme Richard, defeats Pearson, in the Battle of the Serapis
Spain joins the French to fight the British
16 July - Battle of Stony Point
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