1765 CE–1783 CE
From the Stamp Act to United States independence
British Empire · Colonization & sovereignty · Companies, trade & extraction · Resistance & colonized agency · Decolonization & independence
Taxation, parliamentary control, and colonial resistance escalated from protest to war; the 1776 Declaration articulated independence and the 1783 Treaty of Paris recognized it. Loyalists, enslaved people, and Indigenous nations made their own choices and experienced divergent outcomes; the revolution did not universalize freedom
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- End
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
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Sources
- www.archives.gov (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2015-10-30
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Source updated
- 2026-05-07
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
- Date evidence
- Declared in the cited source’s publisher metadata.
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