1760s 1760 - King George III crowned 1763 - Treaty of Paris (1763) ends French and Indian War 1765 - Stamp Act passed 1765 - Stamp Act Congress convenes 1766 - Quartering Act 1767 - Townshend Acts 1770s 1770 - Boston Massacre 1772 - Sam Adams organizes the Committees of Correspondence 1773 - Boston Tea Party 1774 - First Continental Congress 1775 - Battle of Lexington and Concord 1775 - Second Continental Congress 1776 - Declaration of Independence 1776 - Tom Paine publishes Common Sense 1777 - Battle of Saratoga 1777 - Vermont ends slavery 1777 - Articles of Confederation adopted by the Second Continental Congress 1778 - Treaty of Alliance 1780s 1781 - Articles of Confederation ratified 1781 - British surrender at Yorktown 1781 - Bank of North America chartered 1783 - Treaty of Paris (1783) ends United States Revolutionary War 1785 - Treaty of Hopewell 1786 - Shays' Rebellion 1786 - Annapolis Convention fails 1787 - Land Ordinance of 1787 1787 - Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia 1787 - Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey become states 1788 - Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia and New York become states 1789 - Constitution ratified 1789 - George Washington becomes President 1789 - Judiciary Act 1789 - Hamilton tariff 1789 - Jay Gardoqui Treaty 1789 - North Carolina becomes a state 1700-1759 1760-1789 History of the United States 1790-1819