A Biography of America
The Coming of Independence – Key Events
1763
Proclamation of 1763
1764
Sugar Act and Currency Act
1765
Stamp Act
Stamp Act protests
Sons of Liberty formed
1766
Stamp Act repealed
1767
Townshend Acts
1770
Townshend duties repealed, except for tea tax
Boston Massacre
1773
Boston Tea Party
1774
Intolerant Acts (Coercive Acts)
First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia
1775
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Second Continental Congress begins
Dunmore’s Proclamation
1776
Paine publishes Common Sense
British evacuate Boston
Declaration of Independence
British take New York
1777
Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga
1781
Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
1783
Treaty of Paris signed, granting independence to the United States