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American Revolutionary War Timeline

From the end of the French and Indian War in 1763 through the Stamp Act, the Boston Tea Party, Lexington and Concord, the Declaration of Independence and Yorktown, to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in 1791.

31 events · 1763 – 1791

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Key events

  1. French and Indian War Ends (Treaty of Paris)

  2. Proclamation of 1763

  3. Passage of the Stamp Act

  4. Townshend Acts Passed

  5. Boston Massacre

  6. Boston Tea Party

  7. Coercive / Intolerable Acts Enacted

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  8. First Continental Congress Meets

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  9. Battles of Lexington and Concord

  10. Second Continental Congress Convenes

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  11. Battle of Bunker Hill

  12. Publication of Common Sense by Thomas Paine

  13. Adoption of the Declaration of Independence

  14. Washington Crosses the Delaware & Battle of Trenton

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  15. Battles of Saratoga

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  16. Continental Army Encampment at Valley Forge

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  17. Franco-American Alliance Signed

  18. Articles of Confederation Ratified

  19. Siege of Yorktown

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  20. Treaty of Paris (End of Revolutionary War)

  21. Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia

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  22. U.S. Constitution Ratified

  23. George Washington Inauguration as 1st President

  24. Ratification of the Bill of Rights

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