Mar 22 Stamp Act passed: first direct British tax on colonists

Mar 24 Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers

Mar 22 Stamp Act passed first direct British tax on colonists

Mar 07 Admiral Nelson's sailboat HMS Victory runs aground

Aug 14 Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)

Nov 01 Stamp Act went into effect in the British colonies

Nov 23 People of Frederick County MD refuse to pay England's Stamp tax

May 03 Thr first US medical college opens in Philadelphia

May 29 Patrick Henry historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"

May 07 Admiral Nelson's sailboat HMS Victory runs aground

Jan 16 Charles Messier catalogs M41 (galactic cluster in Canis Major)

Jan 11 Frisia bans Voltaires "Traité sur la tolérance"

Oct 07 The Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY