Timeline of United States history (1760-1789)

"The Boston Massacre," an engraving by patriot Paul Revere

This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1760 to 1789.

Table of contents

1 1760s 2 1770s 3 1780s

1760s

• 1760 - King George III crowned
• 1763 - Treaty of Paris (1763) ends French and Indian War
• 1765 - Stamp Act passed
• 1765 - Stamp Act Congress convenes
• 1766 - Quartering Act
• 1767 - Townshend Acts

• 1770 - Boston Massacre
• 1772 - Samuel Adams organizes the Committees of Correspondence
• 1773 - Boston Tea Party
• 1774 - First Continental Congress
• 1775 - Battle of Lexington and Concord
• 1775 - Second Continental Congress
• 1776 - Declaration of Independence
• 1776 - Tom Paine publishes Common Sense
• 1777 - Battle of Saratoga
• 1777 - Vermont, as the Republic of Vermont, passes the Constitution of Vermont, the first in the nation to outlaw slavery
• 1777 - Articles of Confederation adopted by the Second Continental Congress
• 1778 - Treaty of Alliance

• 1781 - Articles of Confederation ratified
• 1781 - British surrender at Yorktown
• 1781 - Bank of North America chartered
• 1783 - Treaty of Paris (1783) ends United States Revolutionary War
• 1785 - Treaty of Hopewell
• 1786 - Shays' Rebellion
• 1786 - Annapolis Convention fails
• 1787 - Northwest Ordinance of 1787
• 1787 - Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
• 1787 - Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey become states
• 1788 - Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia and New York become states
• 1789 - Constitution ratified
• 1789 - George Washington becomes President
• 1789 - Judiciary Act
• 1789 - Hamilton tariff
• 1789 - Jay Gardoqui Treaty
• 1789 - North Carolina becomes a state