History Dates
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m_brundage on November 4, 2008
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1764 | Sugar Act |
| November 1765 | Stamp Act |
| 1766 | Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, Declaratory Acts |
| June 1767 | Townshend Acts |
| March 5, 1770 | Boston Massacre |
| December 16, 1773 | Boston Tea Party |
| September 1774 | First Continental Congress |
| April 18, 1775 | Paul Revere's Midnight Ride |
| April 19,1775 | Battle at Lexington |
| May 1775 | The Second Continental Congress |
| November 1775 | King George rejects the olive branch petition |
| May 10, 1775 | Fort Ticonderoga |
| June 1775 | Battle of Bunker Hill |
| March 7, 1776 | General William Howe orders soldiers to retreat from Boston at Dorchester heights |
| 1776 | Common Sense |
| 1651 | Leviathan is published |
| 1690 | 2nd Treatise is published |
| June 1776 | 2nd Continental Congress creates a draft of a statement declaring Independence |
| July 2, 1776 | Delegates vote to declare Independence |
| July 4, 1776 | Delegates approve of Declaration |
| July 8, 1776 | Declaration is read out loud to the citizens of Philedalphia |
| August 2, 1776 | Majority of 56 signers sign the Declaration |
| December 25-26, 1776 | Battle of Trenton |
| January 2, 1777 | Battle of Princeton |
| September 11, 1777 | Battle of Brandywine Creek |
| October 17, 1777 | Battle of Saratoga |
| 1779 | Dutch traded with the Americans and gave them loans |
| Winter 1777-1778 | Winter at Valley Forge |
| February 1778 | Baron von Steuben begins training the Continental Army |
| February 1776 | 8 ships in Continental Navy |
| 1779 | French gave John Paul Jones a small fleet of 7 ships to command and use to attack the British |
| September 23, 1779 | Jones defeated the British ship Serapis |
| May 12, 1780 | Battle of Charleston |
| March 15, 1781 | Battle of Guilford Courthouse |
| September of 1781 | Nathaniel Greene has retaken entire south, except for Charleston and Savannah |
| September 1780 | Colonel Benedict Arnold becomes a traitor |
| September 28, 1781 | Americans siege Yorktown |
| October 19, 1781 | British surrender at Yorktown |
| 1796 | Edward Jenner discovers the use of cowpox for inoculating smallpox |
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