| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1763 | | Treaty of Paris ends 7 Year's War | | revolution |
| 1765 | | Stamp Act Riots | | revolution |
| 1767 | | Townshend Acts | | revolution |
| 1768 | | spinning meetings begin | | revolution |
| 1768 | | Non-importation agreements begin | | revolution |
| 1768 | | British troops arrive in Boston | | revolution |
| 1769 | | Non-consumption agreements begin to appear | | revolution |
| 1770 | | Townshend Acts Repealed | | revolution |
| 1770 | | 11yr old Christopher Seider killed | | revolution |
| 1770 | | Boston Massacre | John Adams defends the British soldiers. | revolution |
| 1772 | | Committees of Correspondence formed | | revolution |
| 1773 | | Boston "Tea Party" | | revolution |
| 1774 | | John Malcolm tarred and feathered | An example of pre-revolutionary violence and a key episode in the biography of George Robert Twelves Hewes. | revolution |
| 1774 | | First Continental Congress | | revolution |
| 1774 | | Intolerable Acts | | revolution |
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| 1774 | | In December, Paul Revere rides to Portsmouth, New Hampshire | | powder revolution |
| 1775 | | Battles at Lexington and Concord | | revolution |
| 1775 | | George Washington takes command | | revolution |
| 1775 | | Battle of Bunker Hill | | revolution |
| 1776 | | Declaration of Independence | | revolution |
| 1776 | | British evacuate Boston | | revolution |
| 1783 | | Boston establishes annual July 4 oration | After the revolution, Independence Day replaced Pope's Day and Boston Massacre orations in public memorials. | |
| 1786 | | Shay's Rebellion | | revolution |
| 1789 | | French revolution begins | | |
| 1810 | | Congress commissions a census on manufactures | Memories of revolutionary spinning meetings encourage domestic production. | women's work |
| 1812 | | War with England | sometimes called the "second war for Independence" | revolution |
| 1814 | | Hartford Convention considers secession | | Connecticut, Federalists, revolution |
| 1817 | | Pres. James Monroe consecrates Bunker Hill battle site | | revolution, memory |
| 1818 | | Congress establishes pensions for indigent veterans. | | Hewes, revolution |
| 1818 | | John Trumbull's painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence displayed at Faneuil Hall | | July 4, revolution |
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| 1824 | | Lafayette feted in America | | revolution |
| 1824 | | Bunker Hill monument begun | | revolution |
| 1831 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" | This early story was re-published in 1852 | revolution |
| 1833 | | Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Last Leaf" | Describes antiquated survivor of revolution. | revolution |
| 1834 | | James Hawkes, A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, with a Memoir of George R.T. hewes" | | revolution |
| 1835 | | George Robert Twelves Hewes feted in Providence and Boston | Joseph G. Cole painted his portrait, called "The Centenarian" | Independence Day, July 4, revolution |
| 1835 | | Benjamin Bussey Thatcher, "Traits of the Tea Party; Being a Memoir of George R.T. Hewes" | | revolution |
| 1837 | | John Sibley publishes story of Washington Elm | | revolution |
| 1837 | | Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" sung at the dedication of the North Bridge Battle Monument. | "Here once the embattled farmers stood/And fired the shot heard round the world." | Revolution |
| 1848 | | Elizabeth Ellet. Women of the American Revolution | | |
| 1855 | | William C. Nell, "Colored Patriots of the American Revolution" | Among other stories, Nell featured the role of Crispus Attucks in the "Boston Massacre. | Attucks, Boston Massacre |
| 1858 | | Crispus Attucks Day celebrated at African Meeting House | | revolution, Boston Massacre |
| 1860 | | Shoe workers strike in Lynn, Massachusetts and neighboring towns. | Female strikers invoke the memory of the revolutionary heroine Molly Stark. | women's work |
| 1861 | | Longfellow publishes "Paul Revere's Ride" in Atlantic Monthly | | revolution |
| 1861 | | Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Under the Washington Elm" | | revolution |
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| 1879 | | The Boston Antiquarian Club rescues the Old State House | See the Old State House time-line on the Bostonian Society Web site | revolution |
| 1885 | | Boston proposes a statue of Paul Revere | Although Cyrus Dallin completed several models, the city failed to raise the money to complete the statue. | revolution |
| 1887 | | Mass. Historical Society protests Boston Massacre monument | | revolution |
| 1888 | | Crispus Attucks Monument dedicated | | revolution |
| 1890 | | Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Founded | | |
| 1931 | | Polish Legion of American Veterans chartered. | Invoking the memory of Polish officers who fought in the American revolution, they eventually estabished units in New England. | immigrant |
