Historical Events
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| Event | Event Date▲ | Location▲▼ | Category▲▼ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar Act imposes taxes on sugar and molasses, etc. and introduced stricter enforcement measures | April 5, 1764 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| Stamp Act, the first direct tax levied on the American colonies, required a variety of paper goods to carry a tax stamp which had to be paid for with British currency | March 22, 1765 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| Quartering Act requiring colonies supply British troops with living quarters, fire, candles, vinegar, salt, bedding, and beer, cider or rum | May 15, 1765 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| Stamp Act Congress convened in New York City | Oct. 7, 1765 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| Stamp Act repealed | March 18, 1766 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| Townshend Acts levied taxes on several colonial imports including tea, voided some of the acts of the New York assembly and reorganized the American customs service. | June 15, 1767 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| “Boston Massacre” occurs on this date when 9 British soldiers fired into a Boston crowd who had been harassing them and throwing things at them; 5 people were killed and 6 were wounded | March 5, 1770 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| Townshend Acts repealed except for the tax on tea | March 5, 1770 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| Tea Act which empowered the East India Company to export tea directly from England to America and distribute it via company agents | May 10, 1773 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| Boston Tea Party. Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Indians took over a ship at Boston Harbor and dumped all of its tea overboard as a protest of the Tea Act and earlier tax on tea | Dec. 16, 1773 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| new Quartering Act – provided for the housing of troops within a town in uninhabited buildings instead of in barracks provided by a colony whenever their commanding officer thought it necessary | Jan. 13, 1774 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| The Administration of Justice Act – required that any governmental or customs officer indicted for murder be tried in England | May 20, 1774 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| Boston Port Act closed Boston Harbor until Boston made restitution for the tea lost in the tea party (the act was passed on March 25 and approved by the King on March 31) | June 1, 1774 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| Quebec Act approved – gave Canada a permanent government with no representative assembly, established French civil law and provided special protection to the Catholic Church. It also annexed the entire region west of the Appalachians and north of the Ohi o River [some of which had previously been claimed by some of the American colonies]. | June 22, 1774 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| Massachusetts Government Act takes effect - the governor’s council would now be appointed by the king rather than the colonial legislature and town meetings would only be held annually except by permission from the governor | July 1, 1774 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia | Sept. 5, 1774 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| Battles of Lexington and Concord | April 19, 1775 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| Second Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia which transformed the militia army in Massachusetts into a Continental Army and named George Washington as general and commander | May 10, 1775 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| Colonial militia under Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold take Fort Ticonderoga | May 10, 1775 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |
| Battle of Bunker Hill [actually took place at Breed’s Hill, just south of Bunker Hill], Boston, MA | June 17, 1775 |
13 Colonies |
American Revolution |