| A | B |
|---|
| 1751 | Benjamin Franklin founds UPenn |
| 1734-1735 | The Zenger Trial |
| 1660s | The Navigation Acts |
| 1768 | John Singleton Copley, Portrait of Paul Revere |
| 1770 | Benjamin West, The Death of James Wolfe |
| 1759 | Battle of Quebec |
| 1817; 1826 | John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence (placed in the Capital Rotunda in ____) |
| 1760-61 | The Writs of Assistance |
| 1764 | Currency Act |
| 1764 | The Sugar Act |
| 1765 | Quartering Act |
| 1765 | The Stamp Act |
| 1766 | The Declaratory Act; Stamp Act is repealed |
| 1767 | Townshend Duties, 1767 |
| 1789-79 | Trial of John Wilkes |
| 1772 | Gaspee Incident |
| 1773 | Tea Act |
| 1773 | Boston Tea Party |
| 1770 | Boston Massacre |
| 1773 | Trial of James Somerset |
| 1774 | Coercive Acts |
| 1774 | Quebec Act |
| April 1775 | Battles of Lexington and Concord; beginning of Revolutionary War |
| 1776 | Battle of Saratoga |
| 1774 | First Continental Congress |
| 1775-1781 | Second Continental Congress |
| 1775 | Olive Branch Petition |
| 1776 | Common Sense, Thomas Paine |
| 1776 | Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson |
| 1775 | Battle of Bunker Hill |
| 1778 | French Alliance |
| 1781 | Battle of Yorktown |
| 1783 | Treaty of Paris |
| 1861 | Henry Longfellow, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere |
| 1777-78 | The "Long Winter" at Valley Forge |
| 1851 | Leutze, Washington crosses the Delaware |
| 1781-1789 | The Articles of Confederation |
| 1783 | Newburgh Conspiracy |
| 1785 | Land Ordinance of ____ |
| 1787 | Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
| 1785 | Jay-Gardoqui Treaty |
| 1786 | Shay's Rebellion |
| 1787-1789 | The Philadelphia Constitutional Convention |
