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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 |
| | | Delegates from twelve American colonies meet in Philadelphia and agree not to import any goods from Britain | |
|  | Signatures on the petition of the Continental Congress
National Archives, Kew
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| 1775 |
| | | Patrick Henry makes a stirring declaration – 'Give me liberty or give me death' – to the Virginia Assembly | |
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| 1775 |
| | | General Gage sends a detachment of British troops to seize weapons held by American Patriots at Concord | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Paul Revere is one of the US riders taking an urgent warning to Concord, but he is captured on the journey | |
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| 1775 |
| | | The first shot of the American Revolution is fired in a skirmish between redcoats and militiamen at Lexington, on the road to Concord | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Delegates from the states reassemble in Philadelphia, with hostilities against the British already under way in Massachusetts | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Delegates in Philadelphia select George Washington as commander-in-chief of the colonial army | |
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| 1775 |
| | | At Bunker Hill, overlooking Boston from the north, the American militiamen prove their worth against British professional soldiers | |
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