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Timeline of United States history (1760-1789)
This section of the
Timeline of United States history
concerns
events from
1760
to
1789
.
1760s
1760
-
King George III
crowned
1763
-
Treaty of Paris (1763)
ends
French and Indian War
1765
-
Stamp Act
passed
1765
- Stamp Act Congress convenes
1766
- Quartering Act
1767
- Townshend Acts
1770s
1770
-
Boston Massacre
1772
- Sam Adams organizes the
Committees of Correspondence
1773
-
Boston Tea Party
1774
- First
Continental Congress
1775
-
Battle of Lexington and Concord
1775
- Second Continental Congress
1776
-
Declaration of Independence
1776
- Tom Paine publishes
Common Sense
1777
- Battle of Saratoga
1777
- Vermont ends slavery
1777
- Articles of Confederation adopted by the Second Continental Congress
1778
-
Treaty of Alliance[?]
1780s
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
-
Shay's Rebellion
1786
- Annapolis Convention fails
1787
-
Land Ordinance of 1787
1787
- Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
1787
-
Delaware
,
Pennsylvania
and
New Jersey
become states
1788
-
Georgia
,
Connecticut
,
Massachusetts
,
Maryland
,
South Carolina
,
New Hampshire
,
Virginia
and
New York
become states
1789
-
Constitution
ratified
1789
-
George Washington
becomes President
1789
-
Judiciary Act
1789
-
Hamilton tariff
1789
-
Jay Gardoqui Treaty[?]
1789
-
North Carolina
becomes a state
1700-1759
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