Political Events

Year	Estimated Date	Political Event
1696	3/27/1696	Navigation Acts
1763	2/10/1763	Treaty of Paris
1764	1/1/1764	Sugar Act
1765	8/14/1765	Boston Riots
1765	10/19/1765	Stamp Act
1767	1/1/1767	Townsend Acts
1769	4/19/1769	Virginia Resolves
1769	5/1/1769	House of Burgesses disolved
1770	3/5/1770	Boston Massacre
1773	1/1/1773	Tea Act
1773	12/16/1773	Boston Tea Party
1774	1/1/1774	Coercive (Intolerable) Acts
1774	1/1/1774	Suffolk Resolves
1774	9/1/1774	First Continental Congress
1775	5/10/1775	Second Continental Congress
1776	7/4/1776	Declaration of Independence
1776	9/16/1776	Continental Army formed
1778	3/20/1778	The French Alliance
1778	4/19/1778	Toleration Act
1779	6/16/1779	Spain Declares War

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