1754
- May 28 - The French and Indian War begins.
- July 10 - Albany Plan 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, and the English national debt soars.
- October 7 - Proclamation of 1763. King George III banned colonists from settling beyond the Appalachian mountains.
1764
- April 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.
- March 24 - Quartering Act. Colonies must provide housing and food for British troops.
- March 29 - Virginia House of Burgesses passes the Virginia Resolves, 7 resolutions that challenge the legality of the Stamp Act.
- October 7-25 - Stamp Act Congress meets in Philadelphia to discuss the crisis.
1766
- March 18 - Parliament repeals the Stamp Act and passes the Declaratory Act, which reiterates Parliament's authority over the colonies.
1768
- February 11 - Massachusetts Assembly issues Massachusetts Circular Letter, denouncing Townsend Acts.
- August 1 - Boston Non-Importation Agreement. Boston merchants agree to not import British goods, or sell to Britain.
1770
- January 19 - The "First Blood" of the American Revolution is shed at the Battle of Golden Hill.
- March 5 - The Boston Massacre
1772
- June 9 - Gaspée Affair. 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.
- March 5 - Boston Massacre.
- December 16 - Boston Tea Party Takes Place
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.
- September 5 - October 26 - First Continental Congress. Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia.
1775
- March 23 - Patrick Henry’s "Liberty or Death" speech, Richmond, VA.
- April 18 - Paul Revere Makes His Famous Midnight Ride
- April 19 - Battles of Lexington and Concord, MA. - The American Revolution Begins
- May 10 - Ethan Allen and Green Mountain Boys seize Fort Ticonderoga, Second Continental Congress meets.
- June 15 - George Washington appointed commander-in-chief.
- June 17 - Patriots Lose the Battle of Bunker Hill (and Breed’s Hill)
- July 3 - George Washington assumes command of the Army outside Boston.
- July 5 - Congress approves the Olive Branch Petition, a final attempt to avoid war with Britain.
- August 8 - Patriots Win the Battle of Gloucester
- August 14 - The Bermuda Gunpowder Plot
- September 25 - Ethan Allen is captured at the Battle of Longue-Pointe.
- October 13 - The U.S. Navy is established.
- November 19-21 - First Siege of Ninety Six, SC.
- November 13 - Americans take Montreal.
- November 29 - USS Lee Captures British Brigantine Nancy
- December 9 - Battle of Great Bridge, VA.
- December 22 - Battle of Great Canebreak, SC.
- December 23-30 - Snow Campaign, SC.
- December 30-Jan 1 - Battle of Quebec.
1776
- January 9 - Thomas Paine Publishes Common Sense.
- February 27 - Battle of Moore's Creek ends British rule in North Carolina.
- March 3 - Continental Navy captures New Providence Island, Bahamas.
- March 17 - British Evacuate Boston.
- April 6 - The Continental Navy Loses the Battle of Block Island
- April 12 - 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.
- June 28 - Battle of Sullivan’s Island, SC.
- July 1 - Cherokee attack the southern frontier.
- July 4 - Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence - Declares freedom from Britain.
- August 27 - The Battle of Long Island (Brooklyn Heights)
- September 15 - British occupy Manhattan.
- September 16 - Battle of Harlem Heights, NY.
- September 22 - Nathan Hale is hanged for spying against the British on Long Island.
- October 11 - Battle of Valcour Island, Lake Champlain.
- October 28 - Battle of White Plains, NY.
- November 16 - Americans Lose the Battle of Fort Washington, NY. (highest point of Manhattan Island)
- November 20 - British capture Fort Lee, NJ.
- December 7 - The Marquis de Lafayette arranges to fight with the Americans.
- December 12 - Continental Congress Leaves Philadelphia Fearing British Invasion.
- December 23 - Thomas Paine publishes The American Crisis.
- December 25 - George Washington Crosses the Delaware River
- December 26 - The Americans Win The Battle Of Trenton, NJ.
1777
- January 2 - The Americans Win the Battle of Assunpink Creek
- January 3 - American Victory at the Battle of Princeton, NJ.
- January 6 - May 28 - Continental Army Winters at Morristown, NJ. (1st)
- April 27 - Battle at Ridgefield, CT.
- June 14 - First American Flag is Officially Adopted
- July 5 - British capture Fort Ticonderoga.
- August 6 - New Yorkers Fight at the Battle of Oriskany, NY.
- August 16 - Battle of Bennington, VT (Walloomsac, NY).
- August 22 - The Battle of Staten Island, NJ.
- August 25 - The Philadelphia Campaign Begins
- September 11 - Battle of Brandywine, PA. is a loss.
- September 19 - 1st Battle of Saratoga, NY (at Freeman’s Farm) is a win.
- September 20-21 - Battle of Paoli, PA. is a loss.
- September 26 - British take Philadelphia.
- October 4 - Battle of Germantown, PA. is a loss.
- October 7 - Battle of Saratoga, NY (Bemis Heights).
- October 17 - The Americans win the 2nd Battle of Saratoga, NY.
- October 22 - Battle of Fort Mercer, NJ.
- November 3 - George Washington Learns of the Conway Cabal (Plot to unseat him)
- November 16 - British capture Fort Mifflin, PA.
- December 5–7 - Battle of White Marsh, PA.
- December 17 - The French Government Formally Recognizes the United States.
- December 19 - The Continental Army begins its encampment at Valley Forge.
1778
- February 6 - The United States and France become allies.
- February 7 - British General William Howe replaced by Henry Clinton.
- February 23 - Baron von Steuben Arrives at Valley Forge
- March 18 - The Battle of Quinton’s Bridge
- May 20 - Battle of Barren Hill, PA.
- June 18 - British abandon Philadelphia, Continental Army marches out of Valley Forge.
- June 27 - The Battle of Ushant pits a British fleet and a French fleet off the French coast during the American Revolution.
- June 28 - Battle of Monmouth, NJ. - The last major battle of the American Revolution in the north.
- July 4 - George Rogers Clark captures Kaskaskia, in modern Illinois.
- July 29-August 31 - French and American forces besiege Newport, RI.
- August 29 - The Battle of Rhode Island is lost.
- November 24 - North Carolina Wins the Battle of Midway Church, NC.
- December 10 - John Jay is Elected President of the Continental Congress.
- December 29 - The British Capture Savannah, GA. (the First Battle of Savannah)
1779
- January 10 - John Paul Jones Takes Command of the Bonhomme Richard
- February 3 - General William Moultrie Wins the Battle of Beaufort SC.
- February 14 - The Battle of Kettle Creek is Won in GA.
- February 23–24 - George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes, in modern Indiana.
- February 25 - The British Surrender Fort Sackville in America’s western frontier.
- March 3 - Patriots Lose the Battle of Brier Creek
- June 18 - Sullivan expedition attacks Indian villages in NY.
- June 20 - Battle of Stono River, SC.
- June 21 - Spain declares war on Great Britain.
- July 7 - British burn Fairfield, CT.
- July 11 - British burn Norwalk, CT.
- July 16 - Americans capture Stony Point, NY
- July 24 - August 14 - Penobscot Expedition (Castine, ME).
- July 28 - Battle of Fort Freeland, PA.
- August 19 - Major Henry Lee Wins the Battle of Paulus Hook, NJ.
- August 29 - Battle of Newtown, NY.
- September 16 - October 19 - American/French effort to retake Savannah fails.
- September 23 - John Paul Jones and the USS Bonhomme Richard capture HMS Serapis near English coast.
- November - Washington’s Main Army begins camping at Morristown, NJ.
- Decmber 1st - June - Continental Army Winters at Morristown, NJ. (2nd)
1780
- January 25 - Presbyterian Church Burned at Elizabethtown, New Jersey
- January 28 - Fort Nashborough established (now Nashville, TN).
- March 14 - Spanish capture Mobile.
- March 29 - The Siege of Charleston Begins
- May 12 - British capture Charleston, SC.
- May 25 - Mutiny of Connecticut regiments at Morristown, NJ.
- May 26 - Battle at St. Louis, now in Missouri.
- May 29 - Battle of Waxhaws, SC.
- June 7 - British Turned Back at the Battle of Connecticut Farms
- June 20 - Battle of Ramseur’s Mill, NC.
- June 23 - Washington’s Main Army leaves their winter camps at Morristown, NJ.
- June 23 - Patriots Win the Battle of Springfield
- July 11 - French troops arrive at Newport, RI.
- August 3 - Benedict Arnold Given Command of West Point
- August 6 - Battle of Hanging Rock, SC.
- August 9 - The Naval Action of August 9th 1780
- August 16 - The Battle of Camden SC. - The worst American tactical loss of the Revolutionary War.
- August 19 - Battle of Musgrove Mill, SC.
- September 4 - Colonel Francis Marion "the Swamp Fox" Wins the Battle of Blue Savannah
- September 23 - Benedict Arnold’s Treason is Discovered
- September 23 - British officer John Andre arrested for spying and hanged on Oct 2nd.
- September 26 - The Battle of Charlotte, NC.
- October 7 - The Battle of Kings Mountain, SC. is a win.
- October 14 - Gen. Nathanael Greene named commander of the southern Continental Army.
- October 18 - British occupy Wilmington, NC.
- December 3 - General Nathanael Greene Takes Over the Southern Department of the Continental Army.
1781
- January 17 - General Daniel Morgan Wins the Battle of Cowpens in SC.
- January 24 - Light-Horse Harry Lee and Francis Marion Attack Georgetown in SC.
- February 1 - North Carolina Militia Fight at the Battle of Cowan's Ford
- February 12 - Spanish forces take Fort St. Joseph, now Miles, MI.
- February 24 - Pyle's Massacre Takes Place in North Carolina
- March 2 - Articles of Confederation adopted; Battle of Clapp’s Mill, NC.
- March 6 - Battle of Weitzel’s Mill, NC.
- March 15 - Battle of Guilford Courthouse, NC. - The Beginning of the End of British Rule
- April 25 - Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill, SC.
- May 9 - Spanish capture Pensacola.
- May 15 - Battle of Fort Granby, SC.
- May 22–June 18 - Siege of Ninety Six, SC.
- June 6 - Americans retake Augusta, GA.
- July 6 - Battle at Green Spring, VA.
- August 28 - Battle of Elizabethtown, NC.
- September 5 - Battle of the Capes, Chesapeake Bay.
- September 8 - Battle of Eutaw Springs, SC.
- September 28 - The Siege of Yorktown begins.
- October 9 - The Bombardment of Yorktown Begins.
- October 19 - The British officially surrender at Yorktown, VA. General Cornwallis feigned illness, didn't attend.
1782
- March 8—9 - Indians attacked by militia 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 - The British Evacuate Savannah, Georgia
- July 13 - British/Indian raid on Hannahstown, PA.
- August 7 - Washington establishes the Badge of Military Merit, now known as the Purple Heart.
- August 19 - Battle of Blue Licks, KY.
- November 4 - Encounter at John’s Ferry, SC.
- November 10 - George Rogers Clark and American militiamen attack Shawnee villages near Chillicothe. (now Ohio)
- November 30 - British and Americans sign the preliminary Treaty of Paris, bringing the hostilities of the American Revolution to a close.
- December 14 - British evacuate Charleston, SC.
- December 27 - The Battle of Cedar Bridge is Fought
1783
- March 10 - Last Naval Battle of the American Revolution
- March 15 - 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 sign the Treaty of Paris.
- November 25 - British evacuate New York City.
- December 4 - Washington bids farewell to his officers in New York City.
- December 23 - Washington resigns as commander in Annapolis, MD.
1784
- January 14 - The Treaty of Paris Brings the American Revolution to a Close
1791
- December 15 - United States Ratifies the Bill of Rights
1794
- November 19 - Jay's Treaty is signed to bring to an end several years of conflict between Great Britain and the United States. (Then comes the War of 1812)
1799
- December 14 - George Washington Dies at Mount Vernon
Charlatans, Failures and Traitors
The Conway Cabal
tried to discredit Washington in the fall of 1777. (Brigadier General Thomas Conway, General Horatio Gates, General Charles Lee, Sam Adams (hate that beer anyway), Thomas Mifflin, Benjamin Rush)
General Horatio Gates, winner and loser.
General Benedict Arnold. The Americans captured Major John Andre, Arnold’s British contact, who was in possession of paperwork revealing Arnold’s treason
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