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| 1765 |
| | Britain passes the Stamp Act, taxing legal documents and newspapers in the American colonies | |
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| 1766 |
| | Britain repeals the Stamp Act, in a major reversal of policy achieved by resistance in the American colonies | |
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| 1767 |
| | The British Chancellor, Charles Townshend, passes a series of acts taxing all glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported into the American colonies | |
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| 1770 |
| | British troops fire into an unruly crowd in Boston, Massachusetts, killing five | |
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| 1770 |
| | In response to American protests, the British government removes the Townshend duties on all commodities with the exception of tea | |
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| 1773 |
| | Some fifty colonists, disguised as Indians, tip a valuable cargo of tea into Boston harbour as a protest against British tax | |
| | Satirical response to British tea in America National Archives, Kew
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| 1774 |
| | As a retaliation for the Boston Tea Party, the British parliament closes Boston's port with the first of its Coercive Acts | |
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| 1774 |
| | Britain's new Coercive (or Intolerable) Acts include the requirement that Massachusetts citizens give board and lodging to British troops | |
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| 1774 |
| | Encouraged by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine emigrates to America and settles in Philadelphia | |
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| 1774 |
| | Illiterate visionary Ann Lee, leader of an English sect, the 'Shaking Quakers', crosses the Atlantic to spread the word | |
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