Interactive Timeline – 1763-1776

correct incorrect Feb Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years' War

correct incorrect May Pontiac's Rebellion begins when Ottawa forces lay siege to Ft. Detroit

correct incorrect Oct George III forbids settlement west of Appalachian mountains

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Nov Parliament accuses newspaper publisher John Wilkes of sedition

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Nov British reorganize governments of Quebec, Florida, and Grenada

correct incorrect James Otis publishes pamphlet denying British right to tax colonies

correct incorrect Apr Parliament revises Navigation Acts and passes Sugar Act

correct incorrect Apr Currency Act curtails colonial paper money

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Nov Jesuit order is expelled from France

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Nov Japanese peasants riot to protest high taxes

correct incorrect Mar Parliament passes Stamp Act, which taxes legal documents, printed matter, and other paper goods

correct incorrect May Quartering Act requires colonists to house and pay for British troops

correct incorrect May Virginia House of Burgesses protests Stamp Act and urges other colonies to join

correct incorrect Oct Stamp Act Congress meets in Philadelphia, issues "Declaration of Rights and Grievances"

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Scotsman James Watt invents the steam engine

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Aug Joseph II becomes Holy Roman Emperor, rules alongside his mother Maria Theresa

correct incorrect Mar Stamp Act is repealed, but Declaratory Act stresses that Parliament can tax colonies in "all cases whatsoever"

correct incorrect Jul Treaty ends Pontiac's Rebellion

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Ali Bey rules Egypt and declares independence from Ottoman Empire

correct incorrect Mar Charles III expels Jesuits from New Spain for opposing his Bourbon Reform program

correct incorrect Jul Parliament suspends New York legislature for disobeying Quartering Act

correct incorrect Nov John Dickinson's Letter from a Farmer in Pennsylvania begins to appear in newspapers

correct incorrect Nov Townshend Duties tax a new range of colonial products

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Mar Charles III expels Jesuits from Spain, Parma, and Sicily

correct incorrect Jan Massachusetts legislature petitions George III to protest "taxation without representation"

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Ghurkas conquer Nepal

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Encyclopedia Britannica begins publication

correct incorrect May Virginia House of Burgesses resolves that parliament may not tax the colony

correct incorrect Jul Father Junípero Serra founds his first mission church at San Diego de Alcala

correct incorrect THE WORLD: China forces Burma to submit to its rule

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Aug Napoleon Bonaparte is born

correct incorrect Mar Five men are killed by British soldiers in "Boston Massacre"

correct incorrect Apr Parliament withdraws all Townshend Duties except for tax on tea

correct incorrect THE WORLD: The London Evening Post becomes first newspaper to reprint parliamentary business

correct incorrect Oct Boston Town Meeting urges Committees of Correspondence to form

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Russia and Prussia partition Poland

correct incorrect Apr Parliament passes Tea Act, seeking to bolster profits of the East India Company

correct incorrect Dec 90,000 pounds of East India Company tea are thrown into Boston Harbor at Boston Tea Party

correct incorrect THE WORLD: British East India Company becomes a government agency

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Civil war commences in Annam (now Vietnam)

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jesuits expelled from Holy Roman Empire

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May Muhammad Bey assumes power in Egypt, rejoins Ottoman Empire

correct incorrect Mar Parliament closes port of Boston and suspends Massachusetts legislature

correct incorrect Sep First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia

correct incorrect Oct Continental Congress forms a Continental Association to coordinate non-importation

correct incorrect Oct Parliament passes Quebec Act

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May Louis XVI assumes throne of France

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Aug Jesuit order expelled from Poland

correct incorrect Mar Patrick Henry delivers "Give me liberty or give me death" speech in Virginia House of Burgesses

correct incorrect Apr Revolutionary War begins at Battles of Lexington and Concord

correct incorrect May American forces capture Fort Ticonderoga

correct incorrect May Second Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia

correct incorrect Jun Battle of Bunker Hill

correct incorrect Oct Congress forms the Continental Navy

correct incorrect Nov Governor of Virginia offers freedom to slaves who join against rebellious colonists

correct incorrect Nov Richard Montgomery captures Montreal

correct incorrect Dec Richard Montgomery killed in the unsuccessful American attack on Quebec

correct incorrect Jan Thomas Paine's Common Sense is published

correct incorrect Mar British forces evacuate Boston

correct incorrect Jul 4 Congress issues Declaration of Independence, creating United States of America

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Spain opens Buenos Aires to free trade