Construct a timeline of the major events leading to the American Revolution

Timeline of the American Revolution

1754–1763: French and Indian War

March 22, 1765: Stamp Act

June 15–July 2, 1767: Townshend Acts

March 5, 1770: Boston Massacre

December 16, 1773: Boston Tea Party

March–June 1774: Intolerable Acts

September 5, 1774: First Continental Congress convenes

March 23, 1775: Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech

April 18–19, 1775: Paul Revere’s Ride and the Battles of Lexington and Concord

June 17, 1775: Battle of Bunker Hill

January 1776: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense published

July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence adopted

September 22, 1776: Nathan Hale executed

December 25–26, 1776: Washington crosses the Delaware

October 17, 1777: Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga

December 19, 1777–June 19, 1778: Washington winters at Valley Forge

February 6, 1778: France and the United States form an alliance

September 23, 1779: John Paul Jones: “I have not yet begun to fight!”

September 1780: Benedict Arnold turns traitor

March 1, 1781: Articles of Confederation ratified

September–October 1781: Siege of Yorktown

September 3, 1783: Treaty of Paris ends the war

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