1631 Concord settled
1635 Concord Plantation Established
1640 Cambridge Farms Established
1651 Navigation Acts
1713 Cambridge Farms becomes Lexington
1733 Molasses Act
1741 Partial ban on colonial paper money
1764 The Sugar Act and total ban on colonial paper money
1765 Stamp Act and Quartering Act
1767 Townshend Act
1770 Boston Massacre
1773 May- Tea Act; Dec. 13- Lexington Tea Party; Dec. 16- Boston Tea Party
1774 Intolerable (or Coercive) Acts
1775 April- Battles of Lexington & Concord and Siege of Boston*; June- Continental Army formed, Battle of Bunker Hill
1776 March- British evacuation of Boston, July- Declaration of Independence
1783 September- war over as declared by the Treaty of Paris
*The "Siege of Boston" began AFTER the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, and lasted until March of 1776...this period of twelve months is considered the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Conflicts before that were technically civil skirmishes of British colonials against their own government and loyalist military.
