| Date(s)
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Event(s)
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| 1702
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Queen Anne's War (War of the Spanish Succession) begins
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| 1702
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East Jersey and west Jersey become crown colonies
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| 1711
|
Tuscarora War begins
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| 1713
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Queen Anne's War ends with the Treaty of Utrecht
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| 1715
|
Yamasee War begins
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| 1729
|
Province of Carolina proprietors sell out to Crown
|
| 1733
|
Province of Georgia founded
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| 1734
|
The First Great Awakening (1730s to 1760s) begins with the preaching of Jonathan Edwards
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| 1735
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John Peter Zenger trial on freedom of the press issues
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| 1739
|
George Whitefield tours the colonies (1739-1741) to preach the Great Awakening
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| 1740
|
King George's War ( War of the Austrian Succession) begins
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| 1748
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King George's War ends with the Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle
|
| 1752
|
Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment
|
| 1754
|
French and Indian War begins
|
| 1758
|
Treaty of Easton
|
| 1759
|
Battle of the Plains of Abraham, part of the Battle of Quebec (1759)
|
| 1760
|
King George III crowned
|
| 1763
|
Treaty of Paris (1763) ends French and Indian War
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| 1763
|
Pontiac's Rebellion begin
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| 1763
|
British Royal Proclamation of 1763
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| 1764
|
Currency Act, passed by Parliament
|
| 1764
|
Revenue Act is passed to enforce the Sugar and Molasses Act
|
| 1765
|
Stamp Act passed
|
| 1765
|
Stamp Act Congress convenes
|
| 1765
|
First Quartering Act
|
| 1767
|
Townshend Acts
|
| 1770
|
Boston Massacre
|
| 1771
|
Battle of Alamance in North Carolina
|
| 1772
|
Samuel Adams organizes the Committees of Correspondence
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| 1773
|
British Parliament passes Tea Act
|
| 1773
|
Boston Tea Party
|
| 1774
|
First Continental Congress
|
| 1774
|
Dunmore's War
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| 1774
|
British pass Intolerable Acts, including:
|
| 1774
|
Burning of the HMS Peggy Stewart
|
| 1775
|
Battle of Lexington and Concord
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| 1775
|
Battle of Bunker Hill
|
| 1775
|
Second Continental Congress
|
| 1775
|
Olive Branch Petition sent to King George III
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| 1776
|
New Hampshire ratified the first state constitution
|
| 1776
|
Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense
|
| 1776
|
Declaration of Independence
|
| 1776
|
Battle of Trenton ( December 26)
|
| 1777
|
Second Battle of Trenton ( January 2)
|
| 1777
|
Battle of Princeton ( January 3)
|
| 1777
|
Battle of Bound Brook ( April 13)
|
| 1777
|
Battle of Oriskany ( August 6)
|
| 1777
|
Battle of Brandywine ( September 11)
|
| 1777
|
Battle of Paoli (Paoli Massacre) ( September 20)
|
| 1777
|
British occupation of Philadelphia ( September 26)
|
| 1777
|
Battle of Germantown ( Battle of Germantown)
|
| 1777
|
Battle of Saratoga ( October 7)
|
| 1777
|
Articles of Confederation adopted by the Second Continental Congress ( November 15)
|
| 1777
|
Battle of White Marsh ( December 5- December 8)
|
| 1777
|
Battle of Matson's Ford ( December 11)
|
| 1777
|
Vermont, as the Republic of Vermont, passes the Constitution of Vermont, the first in the nation to outlaw slavery
|
| 1777-1778
|
Continental Army in winter quarters at Valley Forge ( December 19- June 19)
|
| 1778
|
Treaty of Alliance (February 6)
|
| 1778
|
Battle of Barren Hill ( May 20)
|
| 1778
|
British occupation of Philadelphia ends (June)
|
| 1781
|
Articles of Confederation ratified
|
| 1781
|
British surrender at Yorktown
|
| 1781
|
Bank of North America chartered
|
| 1783
|
Treaty of Paris (1783) ends United States Revolutionary War
|
| 1785
|
Treaty of Hopewell
|
| 1786
|
Shays' Rebellion
|
| 1786
|
Annapolis Convention fails
|
| 1787
|
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
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| 1787
|
Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
|
| 1787
|
Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey ratify the constitution
|
| 1788
|
Georgia|, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland|, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia and New York ratify the constitution
|
| 1789
|
Constitution goes into effect
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| 1789
|
George Washington becomes President
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| 1789
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Judiciary Act of 1789
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| 1789
|
Hamilton tariff
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| 1789
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Jay-Gardoqui Treaty
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| 1789
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North Carolina ratifies the constitution
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