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1763
Treaty of Paris ends 7 Year's War

    

1765
Stamp Act Riots

   
    
   

1767
Townshend Acts

    

1768
spinning meetings begin

   
   

1768
Non-importation agreements begin

1768
British troops arrive in Boston

   
    
   

1769
Non-consumption agreements begin to appear

    

1770
Townshend Acts Repealed

   
   

1770
11yr old Christopher Seider killed

1770
Boston Massacre

   
    
   

1772
Committees of Correspondence formed

    

1773
Boston "Tea Party"

   
    
   

1774
John Malcolm tarred and feathered

1774
First Continental Congress

   
   

1774
Intolerable Acts

1774
In December, Paul Revere rides to Portsmouth, New Hampshire

   
    
   

1775
Battles at Lexington and Concord

1775
George Washington takes command

   
   

1775
Battle of Bunker Hill

    

1776
Declaration of Independence

   
   

1776
British evacuate Boston

    

1783
Boston establishes annual July 4 oration

   
    
   

1786
Shay's Rebellion

    

1789
French revolution begins

   
    
   

1810
Congress commissions a census on manufactures

    

1812
War with England

   
    
   

1814
Hartford Convention considers secession

    

1817
Pres. James Monroe consecrates Bunker Hill battle site

   
    
   

1818
Congress establishes pensions for indigent veterans.

1818
John Trumbull's painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence displayed at Faneuil Hall

   
    
   

1824
Lafayette feted in America

1824
Bunker Hill monument begun

   
    
   

1831
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux"

    

1833
Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Last Leaf"

   
    
   

1834
James Hawkes, A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, with a Memoir of George R.T. hewes"

    

1835
George Robert Twelves Hewes feted in Providence and Boston

   
   

1835
Benjamin Bussey Thatcher, "Traits of the Tea Party; Being a Memoir of George R.T. Hewes"

    

1837
John Sibley publishes story of Washington Elm

   
   

1837
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" sung at the dedication of the North Bridge Battle Monument.

    

1848
Elizabeth Ellet. Women of the American Revolution

   
    
   

1855
William C. Nell, "Colored Patriots of the American Revolution"

    

1858
Crispus Attucks Day celebrated at African Meeting House

   
    
   

1860
Shoe workers strike in Lynn, Massachusetts and neighboring towns.

    

1861
Longfellow publishes "Paul Revere's Ride" in Atlantic Monthly

   
   

1861
Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Under the Washington Elm"

    

1879
The Boston Antiquarian Club rescues the Old State House

   
    
   

1885
Boston proposes a statue of Paul Revere

    

1887
Mass. Historical Society protests Boston Massacre monument

   
    
   

1888
Crispus Attucks Monument dedicated

    

1890
Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Founded

   
    
   

1931
Polish Legion of American Veterans chartered.


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