Timeline of US History 18th Century Flashcards
1702
William III died and was succeeded by Anne, Queen of Great Britain.
Queen Anne’s War: The war began.
East Jersey and West Jersey became Crown colonies.
1714
Anne, Queen of Great Britain died and was succeeded by George I of Great Britain.
1715
Yamasee War: The war, in Carolina, took place.
1727
George I of Great Britain died and was succeeded by George II of Great Britain.
1729
The proprietors of the Province of Carolina sold out to the British crown.
1732
First Great Awakening: The First Great Awakening took place.
1749
The Province of Georgia overturned its ban on slavery
1752
Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment took place.
1754
French and Indian War: The war began.
Albany Congress: A “Union of Colonies” was proposed.
1758
The Treaty of Easton was signed.
1760
French and Indian War: Pierre de Rigaud, Governor of New France, signed the Articles of Capitulation of Montreal, ceding the Ohio Country and Illinois Country, and the territory of modern-day Canada, to British Field Marshal Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, ending major hostilities.
George II of Great Britain died and was succeeded by his grandson George III of the United Kingdom.
1763
Pontiac’s Rebellion: The rebellion began.
French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris, under which France ceded much of its North American territory to Great Britain but surrendered Louisiana to Spain, formally ended the war.
George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, establishing royal administration over the British colonies won under the Treaty of Paris and demarcating their western boundary.
1764
The Sugar Act, intended to raise revenues, was passed by the British Parliament.
The British Parliament passed the Currency Act, which prohibited the colonies from issuing paper money.
1765
To help defray the cost of keeping troops in America, the British Parliament enacted the Stamp Act 1765, imposing a tax on many types of printed materials used in the colonies.
The British Parliament enacted the Quartering Act, requiring the Thirteen Colonies to provide housing, food, and other provisions to British troops.
Virginia’s House of Burgesses adopted the Virginia Resolves, which claimed that under British law Virginians could be taxed only by an assembly to which they had elected representatives.
Stamp Act Congress: A congress of delegated from nine colonies adopted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, which petitioned Parliament and the King to repeal the Stamp Act.
1766
Pontiac’s Rebellion: The rebellion ended.
The British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act and issued the Declaratory Act, which asserted its “full power and authority to make laws and statutes… to bind the colonies and people of America… in all cases whatsoever.”
The Liberty Pole was erected in New York City in celebration of the repeal of the Stamp Act.
1767
The Townshend Acts, named for Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend, were passed by the British Parliament, placing duties on many items imported into America.
1769
The British Parliament suspended the Governor and assembly of the Province of New York for failure to enforce the Quartering Act.
The broadside To the Betrayed Inhabitants of the City and Colony of New York was published by the local Sons of Liberty.
1770
Battle of Golden Hill: British troops wounded several civilians and killed one.
Frederick North, Lord North becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Boston Massacre: The massacre took place.
1771
Battle of Alamance: A battle took place in North Carolina ending the Regulator Movement.
1772
The Watauga Association, in modern-day Tennessee, declared itself independent.
Gaspée Affair: The affair took place.
Samuel Adams organized the Committees of Correspondence.
1773
The British Parliament passed the Tea Act.
The local Sons of Liberty published Association of the Sons of Liberty in New York.
Boston Tea Party: The Boston Tea Party took place.
1774
Franklin, then Massachusetts’s agent in London, was questioned before the British Parliament.
Dunmore’s War: The war took place.
Britain passed the Quebec Act, one of the so-called Intolerable Acts.
First Continental Congress: The Congress, to which twelve colonies sent delegates, met.
Britain passed the Boston Port Act, one of the so-called Intolerable Acts.
Britain passed the Administration of Justice Act 1774, one of the so-called Intolerable Acts.
Britain passed the Massachusetts Government Act, one of the so-called Intolerable Acts.
Britain passed a second Quartering Act, one of the so-called Intolerable Acts.
Powder Alarm: British General Thomas Gage secretly raided a powder magazine in Cambridge.
The HMS Peggy Stewart was burned.
Greenwich Tea Party: The Greenwich Tea Party took place.
1775
Second Continental Congress: The Congress met.
Battles of Lexington and Concord: The battles took place, beginning the American Revolutionary War.
Skenesboro, New York was captured by Lieutenant Samuel Herrick.
Fort Ticonderoga was captured by Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold and the Green Mountain Boys.
Battle of Bunker Hill: The battle took place.
The Olive Branch Petition was sent to King George III.
Henry Knox began the transport of fifty-nine captured cannon from upstate New York to Boston.
1776
New Hampshire ratified the first state constitution.
Prisoners began to be taken in Wallabout Bay. see Prisoners in the American Revolutionary War.
Thomas Paine published Common Sense.
Knox reached Boston.
Battle of Nassau: The battle began.
Battle of Nassau: The battle ended.
Second Continental Congress: The Congress enacted the Lee Resolution declaring independence from the British Empire.
Second Continental Congress: The Congress approved the written United States Declaration of Independence.
Battle of Long Island: The battle took place.
Staten Island Peace Conference: The peace conference took place.
Landing at Kip’s Bay: The landing took place.
Battle of Harlem Heights: The battle took place.
Great Fire of New York (1776): The fire began.
Nathan Hale was captured and executed for espionage.
Great Fire of New York (1776): The fire ended.
Battle of Valcour Island: The battle took place.
Battle of White Plains: The battle took place.
Battle of Fort Washington: The battle took place.
Battle of Fort Lee: The battle took place.
Battle of Iron Works Hill: The battle began.
Battle of Trenton: The battle took place.
Battle of Iron Works Hill: The battle ended.
1777
Forage War: The war took place.
Second Battle of Trenton: The battle took place.
Battle of Princeton: The battle took place.
Battle of Bound Brook: The battle took place.
The Continental Army made camp at the Middlebrook encampment.
The Continental Army left the Middlebrook encampment.
Fort Ticonderoga was abandoned by the Continental Army due to advancing British troops placing cannon on Mount Defiance.
The British retook Fort Ticonderoga.
Battle of Hubbardton: The battle took place.
Delegates in Vermont established the Vermont Republic and adopted the Constitution of Vermont (Vermont Republic), which abolished slavery.
Battle of Short Hills: The battle took place.
Battle of Oriskany: The battle took place.
Battle of Bennington: The battle took place.
Battle of Brandywine: The battle took place.
Battles of Saratoga: The first Battle of Saratoga took place.
Battle of Paoli: The battle took place.
The British occupied Philadelphia.
Battle of Germantown: The battle took place.
Battles of Saratoga: The second battle concluded with the surrender of the British army under General John Burgoyne.
Battle of Red Bank: The battle took place.
Second Continental Congress: The Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.
Battle of White Marsh: The battle began.
Battle of White Marsh: The battle ended.
Battle of Matson’s Ford: The battle took place.
The Continental Army entered its winter quarters at Valley Forge
1778
The Treaty of Alliance was signed with France.
Battle of Barren Hill: The battle took place.
British occupation of Philadelphia ended.
The Continental Army left its winter quarters at Valley Forge.
Battle of Monmouth: The battle took place.
The Continental Army entered winter quarters at the Middlebrook encampment.
1779
The Continental Army left the Middlebrook encampment.
Battle of Stony Point: The battle took place.
Battle of Paulus Hook: The battle took place.
The Continental Army entered winter quarters at Morristown.
1780
A stockade known as Fort Nashborough was founded on the banks of the Cumberland River.
Some eight thousand British forces under General Henry Clinton arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, from New York.
Second Continental Congress: New York ceded its western claims, including territory west of Lake Ontario, to the Congress.
Bombardment of Fort Charlotte: After a two-week siege, Spanish General Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez captured Fort Charlotte, in Mobile, from the British.
Siege of Charleston: British troops under General Clinton and naval forces under Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot besiege Charleston, South Carolina.
The Continental Army left Morristown.
Siege of Charleston: Fort Moultrie fell to the British.
Siege of Charleston: American General Benjamin Lincoln surrendered Charleston to the British. The British lost two hundred and fifty-five men while capturing a large American garrison.
Battle of Waxhaws: A clash between Continental Army forces under Abraham Buford and a mainly Loyalist force led by Banastre Tarleton near Lancaster, South Carolina resulted in the destruction of the American forces.
Battle of Connecticut Farms: The battle took place.
Battle of Springfield (1780): An attempted British invasion of New Jersey was stopped at Connecticut Farms and Springfield, ending major fighting in the North.
John André was captured, exposing the treason of Arnold.
Battle of Kings Mountain: The battle took place.
1781
Battle of Cowpens: The battle took place.
The Articles of Confederation were ratified.
Battle of Guilford Court House: The battle took place.
Siege of Yorktown: The British surrendered at Yorktown.
The Bank of North America was chartered.
1782
The British government officially, yet informally, recognized American independence.
1783
American Revolutionary War: The Treaty of Paris (1783) ended the war.
The British withdraw from ports in New York and the Carolinas.
1784
The State of Frankland, later Franklin, seceded from North Carolina.
1785
Congress refused Franklin admission to the Union.
The Treaty of Hopewell was signed.
1786
Shays' Rebellion: The rebellion took place. Annapolis Convention (1786): The convention failed.
1787
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was passed.
Philadelphia Convention: A Constitutional convention took place in Philadelphia.
Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey ratified the Constitution.
1788
North Carolina reconquered and dissolved the State of Franklin.
1789
United States presidential election, 1789: The election took place.
The United States Constitution came into effect.
First inauguration of George Washington: George Washington was inaugurated as President in New York City.
1st United States Congress: The Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1789 and the Hamilton tariff.
The Jay-Gardoqui Treaty was signed.
North Carolina, by a margin of 43%, became the twelfth state to ratify the Constitution.
1790
The Southwest Territory (a/k/a Territory South of the River Ohio) is created from North Carolina’s Western frontier lands.
Rhode Island, by a margin of 3%, became the thirteenth state to ratify the Constitution.
1791
The United States Bill of Rights was ratified.
The First Bank of the United States was chartered.
The independent Vermont Republic was admitted to the Union as Vermont, becoming the fourteenth state.
1792
Kentucky County, Virginia became the fifteenth state of Kentucky.
U.S. presidential election, 1792: Washington was reelected President. John Adams was chosen as Vice President.
1793
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
A yellow fever outbreak occurred in Philadelphia.
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 was passed.
Chisholm v. Georgia was decided.
1794
Whiskey Rebellion: The rebellion took place.
The Nickajack Expedition brings a close to the Chickamauga Wars.
Battle of Fallen Timbers: The battle took place ending the Northwest Indian War with the Western Confederacy.
The first of the “Civilized” Indian Nations, the Cherokee Nation, is founded.
1795
The Treaty of Greenville was signed.
The Jay Treaty was signed.
The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified
1796
Tennessee, formerly Southwest Territory, was admitted as the sixteenth state.
1797
Adams was inaugurated.
XYZ Affair: The affair took place.
1798
The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed.
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions were issued.
1799
The Charles Brockden Brown novel Edgar Huntly was published.
Fries’s Rebellion: The rebellion took place.
The Logan Act was passed.
Washington died.
1800
The Library of Congress was founded.
U.S. presidential election, 1800: Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied in votes in the Electoral College.
