| 1765 | The Stamp Act. Repealed in 1766. | |
| March 5, 1770 | The Boston Massacre. | |
| December 16, 1773 | The Boston Tea Party. | |
| September 1774 | First Continental Congress Meets in Philadelphia. | |
| April 19, 1775 | Gage seizes military supplies at Concord. Battle of Lexington. | |
| May 10, 1775 | Second Continental Congress Meets in Philadelphia. | |
| May 10, 1775 | Capture by Colonists of forts and arsenals at Ticonderoga. | |
| May 11, 1775 | Battle of Crown Point. Victory for "Green Mountain Boys". | |
| June 15, 1775 | Washington appointed Commander-in-Chief by Congress. | |
| June 17, 1775 | Battle of Bunker Hill. British occupy Boston until March 1776. | |
| December 31, 1775 | Expedition to Canada fails. Benedict Arnold wounded. | |
| July 4, 1776 | Declaration of Independence. United Colonies become the United States of America, each colony becoming a state. | |
| 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 to January 3, 1776-77 | Crossing of the Delaware and Battles of Trenton and Princeton. Brilliant American Victories. | |
| 1777 | Winter Quarters at Princeton. | |
| July 5, 1777 | Ticonderoga captured by the British. | |
| September 19-October 7, 1777 | Battle of Saratoga. American Victory. | |
| October 17, 1777 | Burgoyne surrenders entire Army to the Americans. | |
| September 11, 1777 | Battle of Brandywine. Americans defeated. | |
| October 4, 1777 | Battle of Germantown. Americans retreat when near victory. | |
| December 19, 1777 | Encampment at Valley Forge for the Winter. | |
| February 6, 1778 | Treaty of Alliance and Commerce with France. | |
| June 19, 1778 | Evacuation of Valley Forge Winter Quarters. | |
| June 28, 1778 | Battle of Monmouth. British retire under cover of night. | |
| December 29, 1778 | Savannah taken by the British. | |
| 1779 | Lafayette goes to France to plead for help. | |
| September 1779 | John Paul Jones captures man-of-war near English coast. | |
| May 12, 1780 | Charlestown, South Carolina 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. | |
| January 17, 1781 | Cowpens. British defeated. | |
| March 15, 1781 | Guilford Court House. Americans defeated. Costly victory for British. | |
| 1781 | Greene clears interior of South Carolina and Georgia of the enemy. | |
| October 19, 1781 | Cornwallis trapped at Yorktown. He surrenders. | |
| November 30, 1782 | Provisional Peace | |
| September 3, 1783 | Treaty of Peace of Paris. |
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