1775 Second Continental Congress convenes.
Battle of Bunker Hill.
Olive Branch Petition.
Battle of Quebec.
1776 Common Sense published.
British evacuate Boston.
Declaration of Independence.
British take Manhattan.
1777 British Parliament suspends habeas corpus.
Ambush at Oriskany; Americans hold Fort Stanwix.
British occupy Philadelphia.
British surrender at Saratoga.
1777–1778 Continental army winters at Valley Forge.
1778 France signs treaty with America.
British take Savannah, Georgia.
1779 Militias attack Cherokee in North Carolina.
Americans destroy Iroquois villages in New York.
Americans take Forts Kaskaskia and Vincennes.
1780 Philadelphia Ladies Association raises money for soldiers.
The siege of Charleston, South Carolina.
French army arrives in Newport, Rhode Island.
British win battle of Camden.
Benedict Arnold exposed as traitor.
Americans win battle of King's Mountain.
1781 British forces invade Virginia.
French blockade Chesapeake Bay.
Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown.
1783 Treaty of Paris ends war.