| - 1494 ~~~~ Treaty of Tordesillas signed to divide heathen world
| - 1673 ~~~~ Parliament levied export duties between colonies to reduce smuggling
| - 1675 ~~~~ Charles II appointed Lords of Trade to "pull together strings of empire"
| - 1676 ~~~~ Bacon�s Rebellion
| - 1685 ~~~~ Dominion of New England established
| - 1688 ~~~~ Dominion of New England overthrown
| - 1696 ~~~~ Colonial policy reorganized under Board of Trade
| - 1759 ~~~~ Montreal and Quebec attacked by English, French commander Montcalm dies
| - 1760 ~~~~ French give up Canada
| - 1763 ~~~~ Revolutionary War ends, Treaty of Paris gives England the land east of the Mississippi
| - ~~~~~~~~~ Proclamation of 1763, England forbids expansion past Appalachian Mountains
| - 1764 ~~~~ Currency Act passed by Grenville: made American currency not legal tender to prevent manipulating exchange rate between currency and English Sterling
| - 1765 ~~~~ Quartering Act: colonies required to provide things for troops in America
| - ~~~~~~~~~ Patrick Henry presented series of resolutions declaring that only the House of Burgesses had the right to tax Virginians
| - ~~~~~~~~~ Stamp Act Parliament introduced, taxing legal documents, newspapers, dice, cards, and almanacs
| - ~~~~~~~~~ Stamp Act Congress met in New York
| - 1768 ~~~~ Two regiments of troops sent to Boston to protect customs officers
| - 1770 ~~~~ Boston Massacre: ten soldiers open fire on a crowd of colonists jeering at them. 11 hit, 5 killed.
| - 1772 ~~~~ Gaspee Affair: British naval vessel that constantly oppressed those on its patrol, burned by Americans
| - 1773 ~~~~ Tea Act: relieved East India Company of various taxes in England
| - ~~~~~~~~~ Boston Tea Party
| - ~~~~~~~~~ Intolerable Acts passed, after colonists refuse to pay damages
| - 1774 ~~~~ First Continental Congress held
| - 1775 ~~~~ Troops from England sent to Concord
| - ~~~~~~~~~ (May) Second Continental Congress held
| - 1776 ~~~~ Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson in the Second Continental Congress, signed
| - 1775 ~~~~ (Apr) Battle of Lexington and Concord
| - ~~~~~~~~~ (Jun) Battle of Bunker Hill
| - 1777 ~~~~ (Oct) Battle of Saratoga
| - 1778 ~~~~ (Jun) Battle of Monmouth Courthouse
| - 1786 ~~~~ Annapolis Convention
| - 1786-87 ~ Shays' Rebellion
| - 1790 ~~~~ Dispute of Spain and England over seized ships in Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island
| - 1791 ~~~~ (Oct) Battle of Yorktown
| - 1791 ~~~~ England sent minister to Philadelphia, US sent Thomas Pinckney to London
| - 1793 ~~~~ Citizen Edmond Gen�t sent to US as French Republic minister
| - ~~~~~~~~~ (Dec) British started seizing American vessels in Caribbean without warning.
| - 1795 ~~~~ Jay's Treaty
| - ~~~~~~~~~ Treaty of Greenville
| - 1796 ~~~~ Pinckney's Treaty
| - 1797 ~~~~ XYZ Affair
| - 1799 ~~~~ Treaty with France
| - 1800 ~~~~ Alliance with France ends
| - 1801 ~~~~ Jefferson Elected
| - 1801-05 ~ Tripolitan War
| - 1802-03 ~ Lousiana Crisis
| - 1803 ~~~~ British and French go to war
| - 1804 ~~~~ Haiti, once a French colony, becomes the first Latin American or Caribbean country to declare its independence
| - 1804-06 ~ Journey of Lewis and Clark
| - 1805 ~~~~ Peace with the Pasha of Tunisia
| - ~~~~~~~~~ British and French declarations of trade
| - 1807 ~~~~ Chesapeake incident
| - 1810 ~~~~ Father Miguel Hidalgo issues his "Cry of Dolores" and begins Mexico's independence struggle
| - 1811 ~~~~ Venezuela and Paraguay declare independence
| - ~~~~~~~~~ Hidalgo killed and replaced by Morelos in Mexico
| - ~~~~~~~~~ Jos� Gervasio Artigas leads battle for Uruguayan independence
| - 1812-15 ~ War of 1812
| - 1814 ~~~~ Treaty of Ghent signed
| - 1816 ~~~~ Argentina declares independence
| - 1818 ~~~~ Chile declares independence
| - 1821 ~~~~ Mexico, Central America and Peru declare independence
| - 1822 ~~~~ Pedro I, son of Portuguese King John, declares Brazil independent and becomes the nation's emperor
| - 1823 ~~~~ (Aug) British Foreign Secretary George Canning writes an overture to the United States concerning a joint statement on Latin American policy
| - ~~~~~~~~~ (Dec) James Monroe issues Monroe Doctrine during his annual address to Congress
| - 1824 ~~~~ Last patriot victories against the Spaniards: (Aug) Bol�var at Jun�n, and (Dec) Sucre at Ayacucho
| - ~~~~~~~~~ Pedro writes a new Brazilian constitution
| - 1825 ~~~~ Bolivia declares independence
| - 1842 ~~~~ Webster-Ashburton Treaty signed
| - 1815 ~~~~ With the end of the War of 1812 and the Napoleonic Wars, a peace
movement grows among reformers in America.
| - 1828 ~~~~ William Ladd founds the American Peace Society
| - 1838 ~~~~ The ultraist faction breaks off from the peace movement and forms
the Non-Resistance Society
| - 1840 ~~~~ William Ladd publishes Essay on a Congress of Nations
| - 1850s ~~~ Growing sectional conflict weakens the national peace movement
| - 1860 ~~~~ The peace movement collapses in the face of the Civil War