1750 - 1800
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| 1754 - 1763 - French
and Indian War - England receives Canada and Spanish Florida
1754 - The Albany Plan
of Union Chronology of
the American Revolution 1761 - Writs of Assistance 1763 - Proclamation of 1763 Map of British Colonies 1763-1775 1764 - The Sugar Act and the Currency Act 1765 - The Stamp Act and the Quartering Act - Stamp Act Congress meets in New York 1766 - Stamp Act repealed and the Declaratory Act passed 1767 - Townshend duties imposed - Regulator activity in North and South Carolina 1768 - John Dickinson publishes Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer and Samuel Adams writes the Massachusetts Circular Letter 1769 - Virginia Resolves 1770 - Boston Massacre - Townshend duties repealed 1772 - Gaspee burned 1773 - Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party 1774 - Quebec Act, The Intolerable Acts
and the First
Continental Congress 1775 - Patrick Henry - Give me Liberty 1775 - Battles of Lexington and Concord
and the Second Continental
Congress 1775 - Paul Revere's Ride 1775 - Battle of Bunker Hill 1776 - Declaration of Independence 1776 - Thomas Paine writes Common Sense - British take New York City 1777 - Battles of Princeton, Brandywine Creek, Saratoga - Washington winters at Valley Forge 1778 - Franco-American alliance 1781 - Battle of Yorktown 1781 - Articles of Confederation
1783 - Peace
of Paris 1784 - Treaty with the Six Nations 1785 - Land Ordinance 1787 - U.S. Constitution
1787 - Shay's Rebellion Maps of US Growth
1788 - 9 states ratify the Constitution 1789 - George Washington inaugurated President and Bill of Rights submitted to the states 1789 - First Judiciary Act 1791 - First Bank of the United States
1793 - Washington issues Proclamation of Neutrality 1793 - Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin 1794 - Whiskey Rebellion and John Jay's Treaty 1795 - Pinckney Treaty 1796 - Washington's Farewell Address and John Adams elected President 1797 - XYZ affair exposed 1798 - 1800 - Undeclared war with France |
1763 - Mason and Dixon survey Maryland's
northern boundary 1765 - Zachariah Hood, Maryland tax collector,
burned in effigy 1769 - Robert Eden sworn in as Maryland governor 1770 - Gov. Eden signs the Fee Proclamation 1772 - cornerstone laid for new State House
in Annapolis 1776 - Gov. Eden leaves Maryland - Montgomery
and Washington counties formed - first Maryland constitution adopted
1777 - First General Assembly meets in Annapolis
- Thomas Johnson first governor 1782 - Washington College founded in Chestertown 1783 - Importation of slaves into Maryland
for sale prohibited 1785 - St. John's College founded in Annapolis 1786 - Annapolis convention calls for a
Constitutional convention
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1754 - 1763 - Seven
Year's War 1756 - Mozart born 1760 - King George III assumes throne of
England 1762 - Catherine the Great assumes the throne in Russia 1763 - Peace of Paris ends wars - England
gets Canada and India 1764 - Spinning Jenny and water frame invented
1769 - James Watt patents the steam engine 1770 - Beethoven born 1776 - Adam Smith writes The Wealth of
Nations 1789 - French Revolution begins -
July 14, The fall of the Bastille - Declaration of the Rights of Man
1793 - Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette executed 1793-94 - French reign of terror 1793 - France at war with Britain, Spain and Holland - Citizen Genet comes to U.S. 1795 - Directory established in France
1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte named temporary Consul |
10,000 B.C. - 1600 A.D.
1600 - 1650
1650 - 1700
1700 - 1750
1750 - 1800
1800 - 1860