June 7 - Richard Henry Lee introduced a resolution urging Congress to declare independence from Great Britain. June 11 - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston were appointed to a committee to draft a declaration of independence. June 28 - A fair copy of the committee draft of the Declaration of Independence was read in Congress. July 1-4 - Congress debated and revised the Declaration of Independence. July 4 - Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.
July 4 - Congress ordered that the Declaration of Independence be printed (Dunlap Broadsides).