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| 1754 | Albany Plan of Union Battle of Ft. Duquesne |
| 1759 | Quebec falls to British |
| 1760 | George III becomes king French army surrenders at Montreal |
| 1763 | Peace of Paris Proclamation of 1763 Pontiac's Uprising |
| 1764 | Sugar Act Currency Act |
| 1765 | Stamp Act Sons of Liberty formed |
| 1766 | Stamp Act repealed |
| 1767 | Townshend Duties Dickinson's "Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer" |
| 1770 | Boston Massacre Lord North becomes prime minister |
| 1772 | Gaspee incident in Rhode Island |
| 1773 | Tea Act Boston Tea Party |
| 1774 | Intolerable Acts First Continental Congress |
| 1775 | Lexington & Concord Battle of Bunker Hill |
| 1776 | Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" Declaration of Independence Battle of Trenton |
| 1777 | Valley Forge British surrender at Saratoga |
| 1778 | French-American Alliance |
| 1781 | Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown |
| 1783 | Treaty of Paris recognizes American independence |
Feldmeth, Greg D. "U.S. History Resources"
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/USHistory.html (31 March 1998).
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