Timeline of the American Revolution
| 1733 | Molasses Act |
| 1754-1763 | French and Indian War |
| 1763 | Proclamation of 1763 |
| 1764 | Law passed which forbid the colonies from printing or using their won money |
| 1765 | Stamp Act |
| 1767 | Townshend Act |
| March 5, 1770 | Soldiers kill five colonists in the Boston Massacre |
| December 16, 1773 | The Boston Tea Party |
| September 5 - October 26, 1774 |
First Continental Congress Met in Philadelphia |
| April 19, 1775 | Battles of Concord and Lexington |
| May 10, 1775 | Second Continental Congress Met in Philadelphia |
| May 10, 1775 | Capture by Colonists of forts and arsenals at Ticonderoga |
| May 11, 1775 | Battle of Crown Point - Green Mountain Boys & Ethan Allen attacked the British Fort Ticonderoga near Lake Champlain and won |
| June 15, 1775 | Congress names George Washington as Commander-in-Chief of the Continintal Army |
| June 17, 1775 | Battle of Bunker Hill |
| December 31, 1775 | American army invaded Canada and tried to take Quebec but failed |
| January 1776 | Thomas Paine published Common Sense |
| March 1776 | Battle of Dorchesr Heights |
| July 4, 1776 | Declaration of Independence |
| August 1776 | Arrival of 30,000 British troops in New York harbor |
| August 27, 1776 | Battle of Long Island - Americans defeated |
| September 16, 1776 | Battle of Harlem Heights - Americans defeated |
| October 28, 1776 | Battle of White Plains - Americans defeated |
| December 25 - January 3, 1776-77 |
Crossing of the Delaware & Battles of Trenton and Princeton, NJ - Americans win |
| 1777 | Winter Quarters at Princeton |
| July 5, 1777 | Ticonderoga captured by the British |
| September 19-October 7, 1777 | Battle of Saratoga, NY - Americans win |
| October 17, 1777 | Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga |
| September 11, 1777 | Battle of Brandywine - Americans defeated |
| October 4, 1777 | Battle of Germantown - Americans retreat |
| December 19, 1777 | Encampment at Valley Forge for the Winter. |
| February 6, 1778 | Ben Franklin incourages France to sign an alliance with the United States |
| June 19, 1778 | Evacuation of Valley Forge Winter Quarters. |
| June 28, 1778 | Battle of Monmouth |
| December 29, 1778 | Savannah taken by the British |
| 1779 | Lafayette goes to France to plead for help |
| September 1779 | John Paul Jones's Bonhomme Richard captures the British Serapis |
| May 12, 1780 | Charlestown, SC taken by the British |
| August 16, 1780 | Gates defeated by Cornwallis near Camden, South Carolina. |
| September 23, 1780 | Benedict Arnold's plot to surrender West Point frustrated. |
| October 7, 1780 | King's Mountain - British defeated |
| 1780 | Rochambeau arrives in America with 5,500 men. |
| 1781 | Powerful French fleet under deGrasse arrives - Block Britrish naveal force in Chesapeake Bay |
| January 17, 1781 | Cowpens - British defeated |
| March 15, 1781 | Guilford Court House - Americans defeated |
| 1781 | Greene clears interior of South Carolina and Georgia of the enemy |
| October 19, 1781 | Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown |
| November 30, 1782 | Provisional Peace |
| September 3, 1783 | Treaty of Peace of Paris |