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| 1753 |
| | | George Washington undertakes a difficult and ineffectual journey to persuade the French to withdraw from the Ohio valley | |
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| 1754 |
| | | George Washington kills ten French troops at Fort Duquesne, in the first violent clash of the French and Indian war | |
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| 1755 |
| | | The first Conestoga wagons are acquired by George Washington for an expedition through the Alleghenies | |
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| 1755 |
| | | The army led by Edward Braddock and George Washington is ambushed at Fort Duquesne and Braddock is killed | |
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| 1761 |
| | | George Washington, the future president, inherits Mount Vernon from his half-brother Lawrence | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Delegates in Philadelphia select George Washington as commander-in-chief of the colonial army | |
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| 1776 |
| | | George Washington raises on Prospect Hill a new American flag, the British red ensign on a ground of thirteen stripes – one for each colony | |
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| 1776 |
| | | George Washington drives the British garrison from Boston, and moves south to protect New York | |
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| 1776 |
| | | George Washington, driven from New York by the British, retreats towards Philadelphia | |
|  | Map of New York in 1765
National Archives, Kew
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| 1776 |
| | | George Washington defeats the British at Trenton at a psychologically important moment in the course of the war | |
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