TIMELINE

FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR 1754-1763

• The French and Indian War 1754–1763 was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies.

KING GEORGE III CROWNED 1760

• George III was one of the longest reigning British Monarchs. He oversaw the conquest of an empire in the Seven Years' War, and the loss of the American Colonies in the War of Independence. The British Empire was the leading model of Industrial and economic development in an era when the whole world was to be mapped and conquered.

ALBANY PLAN OF UNION 1754

STAMP ACT OF CONGRESS 1765

• Stamp act was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation.

SAMUEL ADAMS FORMS COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE 1773

• The committees of correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. They coordinated responses to Britain and shared their plans; by 1773 they had emerged as shadow governments, superseding the colonial legislature and royal officials.

COLONISTS PROTEST WITH THE BOSTON TEA PARTY 1773

• The Boston Tea Party initially referred to John Adams as the Destruction of the Tea in Boston was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773

FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS SENDS DECELERATION RIGHTS TO KING GEORGE III 1774

• Wisely, the delegates compromised. They encouraged colonists to continue boycotting British goods but told colonial militias to prepare for war. Meanwhile, they drafted the Declaration of Rights, a list of 10 resolutions to be presented to King George III. Included was the colonists' right to "life, liberty, and property.

REVOLUTION BEGINS AT LEXINGTON AND CONCORD 1775

• The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy present-day Arlington ,and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen of its colonies on the mainland of British America.

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE DRAFTED BY THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 1776

• The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774, also in Philadelphia.

COLONIES URGED TO ADOPT THEIR OWN CONSTITUTION TO REPLACE COLONIAL CHARTERS

• Connecticut was granted governmental authority by King Charles II of England and royal charter. These two documents laid the groundwork for the state’s government, but lacked characteristics of what is generally thought of as a constitution.Separate branches of government did not exist during this period, and the General Assembly acted as the supreme authority.