1764 "Sugar Act"- Colonists were taxed on sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric and printed calico, and further, regulated the export of lumber and iron.
1765 "Stamp Act"- American colonists were required to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
1766 "Declaratory Act"- Colonies and plantations in America have been, are, and of right ought to be. subordinate unto, and dependent upon the imperial crown and parliament of Great Britain; and that the King's majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons of Great Britain, in parliament assembled, had, hash, and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever. (http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/declaratory.htm)
1773 "Boston Tea Party" The Sons Of Liberty dumped tea into the Boston Harbor.
1774 ""Intolerable Acts"- Allowed troops to be billeted on civilians, and permitted trials of British officials to be heard in Britain, because they could not get a fair trial in the colonies.
1775 "Lexington" Colonists and the British Soldiers clash at Lexington and Concord after they attempt to seize the colonists supplies.
1776 "Declaration Of Independence" After a year of fighting, the colonists come together to create the Declaration of Independence.
1777 "Saratoga" Saratoga was one of few conventional style battles that Continental Army won. The French also joined the American Continental Army by sending officer Lafayette and the support of the French Navy.
1781 "Yorktown" The Battle of Yorktown ended in a American victory. The Americans captured the British with the help of the French Navy and agreed on terms.
1784 "Expansion" After the Revolution, The new United States of America had gained landed ranging from entire zone east of the Mississippi, south of the Great Lakes, and north of Florida.