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1770
  • Parliament repeals Townshend duties.

1772
  • British navy ship Gaspée burned.

  • Committees of correspondence begin forming.

1773
  • Parliament passes Tea Act.

  • Tea dumped in Boston harbor.

1774
  • Parliament passes Coercive Acts.

  • Powder Alarm shows colonists' readiness to fight.

  • First Continental Congress meets.