1764-02-21 | John Wilkes Found Guilty of Seditious Libel |
1764-03-10 | Grenville Proposes Stamp Act for America |
1764-04-05 | Parliament Passes Sugar Act |
1764-04-19 | George III Signs the Currency Act |
1764-07-23 | James Otis Originates American Opposition to Taxation Without Representation |
1764-12-18 | Virginia House of Burgesses Protests Stamp Tax |
1765-02-26 | Isaac Barré Calls Americans the "Sons of Liberty" |
1765-03-22 | Stamp Act Enacted |
1765-05-15 | Quartering Act Passes |
1765-05-29 | Patrick Henry Introduces his Stamp Act Resolves |
1765-05-30 | Virginia House of Burgesses pass Henry's Resolves |
1765-06-08 | Massachusetts Assembly Calls for Stamp Act Congress |
1765-07-09 | Board of Trade Declares Henry's Resolves an Attack on the Constitution |
1765-07-10 | Prime Minister George Grenville Resigns, Rockingham Ministry Begins |
1765-08-14 | Bostonians Hang Stamp Distributor in Effigy |
1765-10-07 | Stamp Act Congress Meets in New York |
1765-10-30 | Virginians force Stamp Distributor to Resign |
1766-01-14 | William Pitt argues that Parliament has no Authority to Tax Colonies Without their Consent |
1766-01-21 | Benjamin Franklin Testifies to Harmful Effect of Stamp Tax |
1766-02-11 | Virginia County Court Declares Stamp Act Unconstitutional |
1766-02-27 | 115 Virginians Sign Leedstown Resolves to Protest Stamp Act |
1766-03-07 | Richard Bland's An Inquiry Into the Rights of the British Colonies published in Williamsburg |
1766-03-18 | Parliament repeals Stamp Act, passes Declaratory Act |
1766-06-13 | Williamsburg Celebrates Repeal of Stamp Act with Ball and General Illumination |
1766-07-05 | Rockingham Ministry Falls, Pitt Returns to the Government |
1766-11-06 | Virginia Assembly Meets, Peyton Randolph Elected Speaker of the House of Burgesses |
1767-06-29 | Parliament Passes Townshend Duties |
1767-12-03 | "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" Begin to Appear |
1767-12-05 | Grafton Takes Over Government from Chatham |
1768-02-11 | Massachusetts Calls on Colonies to Unite in Opposition to Townshend Duties |
1768-04-16 | Virginia Assembly Protests Townshend Acts |
1768-05-10 | The St. George's Fields Massacre |
1768-06-10 | Violence in Boston Following Seizure of John Hancock’s Liberty |
1768-07-25 | Richard Henry Lee Suggests Intercolonial Committees of Correspondence |
1768-10-01 | British troops arrive in Boston to restore order |
1768-10-14 | Treaty of Hard Labor Signed with Cherokee |
1768-11-15 | Debate Over America in Parliament |
1769-01-21 | "Junius" Letters Begin to Appear in London Newspaper |
1769-01-26 | House of Commons Considers Massachusetts Circular Letter and 1768 Virginia Resolutions |
1769-02-03 | John Wilkes Expelled from Parliament, 219-136 |
1769-02-09 | Parliament Revives Statute of Henry VIII for Transporting Criminals to England for Trial |
1769-05-08 | Thomas Jefferson Attend his First Session of the Virginia Assembly |
1769-05-18 | Virginians Adopt Non-Importation Association |
1769-11-07 | Virginia Governor Announces Repeal of Townshend Duties |
1769-12-08 | South Carolina's House of Commons Votes £1500 for John Wilkes |
1769-12-13 | "Homespun Ball" to Protest Townshend Duties Held in Williamsburg |
1770-01-28 | Grafton Ministry Falls, Lord North Becomes Prime Minister |
1770-03-05 | Boston "Massacre" |
1770-04-12 | Repeal of the Townshend Duties |
1770-04-18 | John Wilkes Released from Prison |
1770-06-22 | Virginians Craft New Non-Importation Association |
1770-06-27 | Virginia's House of Burgesses Asks King to Stop Parliament |
1770-09-28 | Mid-Atlantic Quakers Admonish Friends Who Sign Associations |
1770-10-15 | Virginia's Governor Dies |
1770-11-26 | Constitutional Controversy Between "Antilon" and "First Citizen" Ignites in Maryland |
1770-12-04 | Boston Jury Acquits Six Soldiers in Boston"Massacre" Verdict |
1770-12-09 | Privy Council Disallows Virginia Act to End Slave Trade |
1770-12-19 | Lord Dunmore Appointed Governor of Virginia |
1771-05-16 | North Carolina Regulators Crushed at Alamance Creek |
1771-05-27 | The "Great Fresh" Hits the Virginia Tidewater |
1771-06-04 | Virginia Clergy Debate Creation of American Bishop |
1771-09-25 | Lord Dunmore Arrives in Williamsburg |
1772-06-09 | The Burning of the Gaspée |
1772-06-22 | Somerset Case Decided in London |
1772-07-10 | Credit Crisis Deepens |
1772-10-28 | Samuel Adams Proposes Committees of Correspondence for Massachusetts Towns |
1773-03-12 | Virginia House of Burgesses Create Intercolonial Committee of Correspondence |
1773-05-10 | Parliament Passes Tea Act |
1773-10-18 | Philadelphia Citizens Protest Tea Act |
1773-12-16 | The Boston Tea Party |
1774-03-31 | Parliament Closes the Port of Boston |
1774-04-12 | Virginia Courts Close |
1774-05-20 | Parliament Passes Two More Coercive Acts |
1774-05-24 | Virginia Burgesses Protest Boston Port Bill with Day of Fasting and Prayer |
1774-05-27 | Virginia Calls for Continental Congress |
1774-06-02 | Parliament Passes Quartering Act |
1774-06-22 | Parliament Passes Quebec Act |
1774-07-10 | Dunmore's War |
1774-08-01 | First Virginia Convention Meets in Williamsburg |
1774-09-05 | First Continental Congress Meets in Philadelphia |
1774-10-19 | Dartmouth Orders Securing of Colonial Gunpowder |
1774-11-07 | Yorktown Tea Party |
1774-11-30 | George III Opens New Parliament with Speech on Rebellion in Massachusetts |
1774-12-08 | Maryland Convention Requires Militia Service |
1774-12-12 | "Massachusettensis" Begins Debate with "Novanglus" in Massachusetts |
1775-01-18 | Dartmouth Urges Governors to Prevent Second Continental Congress |
1775-02-09 | Parliament Declares Massachusetts in Rebellion; Adopts Lord North’s Conciliatory Proposal |
1775-03-20 | Second Virginia Convention Meets in Richmond |
1775-03-30 | Lord Dunmore Requires Magistrates to Stop Appointment of Delegates to Continental Congress |
1775-03-30 | George III Agrees to New England Restraining Act |
1775-04-14 | Gage Receives Dartmouth Letter Urging Action |
1775-04-19 | The Battles of Lexington and Concord |
1775-04-21 | Williamsburg's Gunpowder Incident |
1775-05-10 | The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga |
1775-05-10 | Second Continental Congress Convenes |
1775-06-01 | Virginia Assembly Considers Lord North's Conciliatory Proposal |
1775-06-15 | George Washington Appointed to Command the Continental Army |
1775-06-17 | The Battle of Bunker Hill |
1775-07-08 | Congress Adopts Olive Branch Petition |
1775-08-23 | George III Proclaims the Colonies in Open Rebellion |
1775-11-07 | Dunmore Signs Proclamation Offering Freedom to Slaves |
1775-11-10 | Germain Succeeds Dartmouth as Secretary of State for the Colonies |
1775-12-09 | The Battle of Great Bridge |
1775-12-31 | The Battle of Quebec |