| A | B |
|---|
| 1215 | Magna Carta is signed |
| 1492 | Columbus sails to New World |
| 1607 | Founding of Jamestown Colony |
| 1620 | Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth Rock |
| 1681 | William Penn founds Pennsylvania |
| 1763 | End of French & Indian War |
| 1765 | Britain imposes the Stamp Act on the colonies |
| 1767 | Britain imposes the Townshend Acts |
| 1770 | five colonists killed in the Boston Massacre |
| 1773 | Boston Tea Party |
| 1774 | First COntinental Congress meets in Philadelphia |
| 1775 | Battle of Lexington & Concord |
| 1776 | Declaration of Independence |
| 1781 | Colonial forces defeat the British at Yorktown and win the war |
