3.0 Chronology of Major Events in this Period 1760 - 1820 - The reign of George III 1765 - Stamp Act; Stamp Act Congress Meets in New York; Quartering 1766 - Stamp Act Repealed by Parliament; Quartering Act. 1767 - Townshend Duties Passed; Dickinson’s Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania published. 1768 - British Troops sent to Boston. 1770 - Townshend Duties Repealed; Except for Duty on Tea; Boston Massacre. 1773 - Tea Act Imposed; Boston Tea Party. 1774 - Coercive or Intolerable Acts; Continental Congress Meets in Philadelphia. 1775 - Battles of Lexington and Concord; second continental Congress George Washington appointed Commander-in-Chief of the 1776 - Thomas Paine’s Common Sense; Declaration of Independence; 1777 - Articles of Confederation adopted by the Congress, but not ratified by all States until 1781. concludes Military Alliance and Commercial Treaty with France.1781 - Cornwallis surrenders to Washington at York Town, Virginia.1783 - Treaty of Paris signed with Britain....
