1700′s Timeline of the History of The United States

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Timeline of The History of the United States 1700′s

1702: William III dies, is succeeded by Queen Anne
1702: Queen Anne’s War (War of the Spanish Succession) begins
1702: East Jersey and West Jersey become crown colonies
1715: Yamasee War in South Carolina colony
1727: George I dies, is succeeded by George II
1729: Province of Carolina proprietors sell out to Crown
1732: First Great Awakening
1749: Province of Georgia overturns its ban on slavery
1752: Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment
1754: French and Indian War begins, part of the Seven Years’ War
1754: Albany Congress, in which a “Union of Colonies” is proposed
1758: Treaty of Easton
1760: Pierre de Rigaud, Governor of New France, capitulates to Field Marshal Jeffrey Amherst.
1760: King George II of Great Britain dies and is succeeded by his grandson George III.
1763: The Treaty of Paris formally ends the French and Indian War.
1763: Native American tribes in the Great Lakes region resist the policies of the British under Amherst.
1763: King George’s Royal Proclamation of 1763 establishes administration in territories newly ceded by France.
1764: The Sugar Act, intended to raise revenues, and the Currency Act, prohibiting the colonies from issuing paper money, are passed by Parliament.
1765: To help defray the cost of keeping troops in America, Parliament enacts the Stamp Act, imposing a tax on many types of printed materials.
1765: Parliament enacts the Quartering Act, requiring the Colonies to provide housing, food, and other provisions to British troops.
1766: The British Parliament repeals the unpopular Stamp Act of the previous year.
1766: Liberty Pole erected in New York City commons in celebration of the Stamp Act repeal.
1767: The Townshend Acts, named for Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend, are passed by Parliament.
1769: To the Betrayed Inhabitants of the City and Colony of New York broadside published by the local Sons of Liberty
1770: Golden Hill incident in which British troops wound civilians, including one death
1770: Lord North becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain
1770: Boston Massacre
1771: Battle of Alamance in North Carolina
1772: Samuel Adams organizes the Committees of Correspondence
1772: Gaspée Affair
1772: The Watauga Association in what would become Tennessee declares itself independent.
1773: The Parliament passes the Tea Act
1773: Association of the Sons of Liberty in New York published by local Sons of Liberty
1773: Boston Tea Party
1774: Benjamin Franklin, Massachusetts’ agent in London, is questioned before Parliament
1774: Dunmore’s War
1774: British pass: Boston Port Act, Administration of Justice Act, Massachusetts Government Act, A second Quartering Act, and Quebec Act
1774: The Powder Alarm, General Gage’s secret raid on the Cambridge powder magazine
1774: The First Continental Congress meets; twelve colonies send delegates
1774: Burning of the HMS Peggy Stewart
1774: Greenwich Tea Party
1775: Battles of Lexington and Concord
1775: Skenesboro, NY captured by LT Samuel Herrick.
1775: Fort Ticonderoga captured by Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold and the Green Mountain Boys.
1775: Battle of Bunker Hill
1775: The Second Continental Congress meets
1775: Olive Branch Petition sent to King George III
1775: Henry Knox transported fifty-nine captured cannon from upstate New York to Boston, MA. Trip took 56 days to complete.
1776: New Hampshire ratifies the first state constitution
1776: Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense
1776: Battle of Nassau
1776: The Second Continental Congress declares independence from the British Empire, and approves the Declaration of Independence.
1776: Battle of Long Island, a.k.a. Battle of Brooklyn
1776: British prison ships begin in Wallabout Bay, New York
1776: Staten Island Peace Conference
1776: Landing at Kip’s Bay
1776: Battle of Harlem Heights
1776: Great Fire of New York
1776: Nathan Hale captured and executed for espionage
1776: Battle of Valcour Island
1776: Battle of White Plains
1776: Battle of Fort Washington
1776: Battle of Fort Lee
1776: Battle of Iron Works Hill
1776: Battle of Trenton
1777: Second Battle of Trenton
1777: Battle of Princeton
1777: Forage War
1777: Battle of Bound Brook
1777: Middlebrook encampment
1777: Fort Ticonderoga abandoned by the Americans due to advancing British troops placing cannon on Mount Defiance.
1777: British retake Fort Ticonderoga.
1777: Battle of Hubbardton
1777: Delegates in Vermont, which was not one of the Thirteen Colonies, establish a republic and prohibit slavery.
1777: Battle of Short Hills
1777: Battle of Oriskany
1777: Battle of Bennington
1777: Battle of Brandywine
1777: Battle of Paoli
1777: British occupation of Philadelphia
1777: Battle of Germantown
1777: Two Battles of Saratoga conclude with the surrender of the British army under General Burgoyne.
1777: Battle of Red Bank
1777: Articles of Confederation adopted by the Second Continental Congress
1777: Battle of White Marsh
1777: Battle of Matson’s Ford
1777-1778: Continental Army in winter quarters at Valley Forge
1778: Treaty of Alliance with France
1778: Battle of Barren Hill
1778: British occupation of Philadelphia ends
1778: Battle of Monmouth
1778-1779: Continental Army in winter quarters at Middlebrook encampment
1779: Battle of Stony Point
1779: Battle of Paulus Hook
1779-1780: Continental Army in winter quarterts at Morristown
1782: The British government officially, yet informally, recognizes American independence
1783: The Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War
1783: North Carolina becomes the 12th state to ratify the Constitution, with a vote of 194-77
1790: Rhode Island and Providence Plantations becomes the 13th state to ratify the Constitution, with a vote of 34-32 (May 29)
1790: Rhode Island ratifies the Constitution and becomes 13th state
1791: Bill of Rights ratified
1791: First Bank of the United States chartered
1791: Vermont, formerly the independent Vermont Republic, becomes the 14th state
1792: Kentucky, formerly Kentucky County, Virginia, becomes the 15th state
1792: U.S. presidential election, 1792: George Washington reelected president, John Adams vice president
1793: Eli Whitney invents cotton gin
1793: Yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia
1793: Fugitive Slave Act passed
1793: Chisholm v. Georgia paves way for passage of 11th Amendment
1794: Whiskey Rebellion
1794: Battle of Fallen Timbers
1795: Treaty of Greenville
1795: Jay Treaty
1795: 11th Amendment ratified
1796: Tennessee, formerly part of North Carolina, becomes the 16th state
1796: Pinckney’s Treaty
1796: Treaty of Tripoli
1796: U.S. presidential election, 1796: John Adams is elected president, Thomas Jefferson vice president
1797: John Adams inaugurated
1797: XYZ Affair
1798: Alien and Sedition Acts
1798: Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
1799: Fries’s Rebellion
1799: Logan Act

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