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1 FROM COLONIES TO NATIONHOOD, 1763–1789 Chronology, 1754 –1789 1754 June: Franklin’s Albany Plan of Union 1754 –1763 The French and Indian War 1756 –1763 Seven Years’ War 1759 September 18: The British take Quebec from the French 1760 October 25: King George II dies and is succeeded by his grandson George III 1763 February 10: The Peace of Paris ends the Seven Years’ War May 7: Pontiac’s Rebellion erupts October: George III signs the Proclamation of 1763, closing the west to settlement 1764 April 5: The Revenue Act (Sugar Act) becomes law The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved is published by James Otis 1765 March: The Stamp Act crisis begins May 30: The Virginia Resolves are passed First Circular Letter is dispatched July: Lord Rockingham becomes British prime minister August– October: Mob violence occurs in Boston and New York October 7–25: Stamp Act Congress meets in New York City 1766 March 18: Declaratory Act is passed by Parliament 1767 June 29: First Townshend duties become law 1768 January: John Dickinson publishes Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania 1769 Townshend duties are reissued 1770 April: Lord North becomes British prime minister March 5: Boston Massacre FROM COLONIES TO NATIONHOOD, 1763–1789 CHRONOLOGY, 1754–1789 OVERVIEW DOMESTIC LIFE MATERIAL LIFE INTELLECTUAL LIFE RELIGIOUS LIFE ECONOMIC LIFE POLITICAL LIFE MILITARY LIFE: THE MAKEUP OF THE AMERICAN ARMY MILITARY LIFE: THE REVOLUTION ON THE HOMEFRONT WOMEN INDEPENDENCE AND A NEW BEGINNING