| DATE | EVENT |
| 1534 | New France Founded |
| 1607 | Colony of Virginia founded at Jamestown |
| 1756-1763 | Seven Years’ War – Treaty of Paris |
| 1747 | George Croghan’s trading post on lake Erie |
| 1749 | Ohio Company founded |
| 1754 | Jumonnville’s Glen – Fort Necessity – Albany Conference |
| 1763 | Royal Proclamation of 1763, no settlement beyond Alleghenies |
| 1763 | Grenville’s Navigation Acts |
| 1764 | Sugar Act |
| Mar. 22, 1765 | Stamp Act |
| 1765 | Stamp Act Congress |
| 1765 | Quartering Act |
| 1766 | Repeal of Stamp Act, Declaratory Act |
| 1766 | Sons of Liberty, Liberty Pole in NY |
| Jun. 15-Jul. 2, 1767 | Townshed Acts |
| 1768 | Adams’ Circular Letter |
| March 5, 1770 | Boston Massacre |
| 1772 | Gaspee Affair |
| Dec. 16, 1773 | Boston Tea Party |
| March-June 1774 | Intolerable Acts, Quebec Act |
| Sept. 5, 1774 | First Continental Congress |
| Apr. 19, 1775 | Lexington & Concord |
| May 10, 1775 | Ethan Allen seizes Ft. Ticoneroga |
| June 17, 1775 | Bunker Hill |
| June 19, 1775 | Washington placed at head of Continental Army |
| July 9, 1775 | Olive Branch Petition |
| Nov. 3, 1775 | Fort St. John taken |
| Nov. 13, 1775 | Americans take Montreal |
| Dec. 30-31, 1775 | Battle of Quebec |
| Jan. 26, 1776 | Knox delivers Ticonderoga artillery to Washington in Boston |
| March 4, 1776 | Cannon installed on Dorchester Heights |
| March 5-17, 1776 | British abandon Boston |
| June 1776 | British fleet arrives in New York harbor |
| July 4, 1776 | Declaration of Independence |
| Aug 22-27, 1776 | Battle of Brooklyn |
| Sept 11, 1776 | Richard Howe meets with Benjamin Franklin |
| Sept 15, 1776 | British occupy Manhattan |
| Sept 16, 1776 | Battle of Harlem Heights |
| Oct 28, 1776 | Battle of White Plains |
| Nov 16, 1776 | Battle of Ft. Washington |
| Nov 20, 1776 | Battle of Ft. Lee |
| Dec 20, 1776 | Thomas Paine publishes The American Crisis |
| Dec 26, 1776 | Washington Crosses Delaware |
| Dec 26, 1776 | Battle of Trenton |
| Jan 3, 1777 | Battle of Princeton |
