List of Conflicts in British America - 18th Century

18th Century

  • 1702 - 1713 Queen Anne's War
  • 1703 - 1719 Noncomformists Disturbances in Jamaica, New York
  • 1703 Political factionalism riot in Charleston, South Carolina
  • 1704 Riot of Young Gentry in Philadelphia
  • 1705 Privateersman's riot in New York
  • 1710 Food riot in Boston
  • 1711 - 1715 Tuscarora War
  • 1711 Cary's Rebellion in North Carolina
  • 1711 Dutch Church Riot in Flatbush, New York
  • 1711 Anti-impressment riot in New York
  • 1712 New York Slave Revolt of 1712
  • 1715 - 1717 Yamasee War
  • 1716 - 1729 Natchez Wars
  • 1718 Riotous seizure of records in North Carolina
  • 1719 Anti-customs riot in Newport, Rhode Island
  • 1719 Overthrow of the proprietor in South Carolina
  • 1720 Defeat of the Spanish Villasur expedition in present-day Nebraska by Pawnee (with the possible assistance of the French)
  • 1722 Jailbreak riot in Hartford, Connecticut
  • 1722 - 1727 Dummer's War with the Abenaki Indians in Maine and New Hampshire
  • 1726 Philadelphia riot against pillory and stocks
  • 1730 - 1738 Cresap's War (aka Conojocular War), border conflict between Pennsylvania and Maryland
  • 1734 Riot against ship seizure in Hartford County, Connecticut
  • 1734 Mast-Tree Riot in Exeter, New Hampshire
  • 1736 - 1752 Chickasaw Wars
  • 1737 Anti-prostitution riot in Boston
  • 1737 Anti-markethouse riot in Boston
  • 1737 Anti-Quitrent riot in North Carolina
  • 1738 Fish Dam Riot on the Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania
  • 1739 Stono Rebellion, slave rebellion in South Carolina
  • 1741 New York Conspiracy of 1741, a suspected slave revolt
  • 1739 - 1748 War of Jenkins' Ear with Spain
    • 1742 Battle of Gully Hole Creek
    • 1742 Battle of Bloody Marsh
  • 1742 Election riot in Philadelphia
  • 1744 - 1748 King George's War
  • 1745 - 1754 Horseneck Riots, land riots in New Jersey
  • 1747 Impressment riot in Boston
  • 1750 Election riot in York, Pennsylvania
  • 1751 - 1757 Anti-rent riot by tenants in New York
  • 1754 Riot against the surveyor of the woods in Exeter, New Hampshire
  • 1754 - 1763 French and Indian War/ Seven Years' War
    • 1754 Battle of Fort Necessity (Great Meadows)
    • 1755 Braddock Expedition (Battle of the Monongahela)
    • 1756 Battle of Fort Oswego (1756)
    • 1757 Battle of Fort William Henry, including subsequent "massacre"
    • 1758 Battle of Fort Duquesne
    • 1758 Battle of Ticonderoga
    • 1758 Battle of Fort Duquesne
    • 1759 Battle of Fort Niagara
  • 1757 Riot against the recruitment of troops in Brentwood, New Hampshire
  • 1757 Seizure of longboat of HMS Enterprise by mob in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
  • 1758 - 1761 Cherokee War in Georgia
  • 1759 Anti-land tax riot in North Carolina
  • 1763 Pontiac's Rebellion
  • 1763 - 1764 Paxton Boys' Rebellion in Pennsylvania
  • 1763 Wyoming Valley Massacre against Connecticut settlers in Pennsylvania
  • 1764 Pope Day Riot in Boston
  • 1765 Stamp Act riots in Boston, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, and Maryland
  • 1765 - 1771 War of the Regulation
    • 1771 Battle of Alamance in North Carolina
  • 1766 Quartering Act riot in New York
  • 1769 - 1771 First Pennamite War between settlers from Connecticut and Pennsylvania in Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania
  • 1770 Boston Massacre
  • 1772 Burning of the customs schooner HMS Gaspee in Narragansett Bay
  • 1773 - 1774 Lord Dunmore's War
  • 1775 - 1783 American Revolutionary War
    • 1775
      • Battles of Lexington and Concord
      • Siege of Boston
      • Battle of Ticonderoga
      • Battle of Bunker Hill
    • 1776
      • Battle of Long Island
      • Battle of Harlem Heights
      • Battle of White Plains
      • Battle of Trenton
    • 1777
      • Battle of Princeton
      • Battle of Oriskany
      • Battle of Bennington
      • Battle of Brandywine Creek
      • Battle of Saratoga
      • Capture of Philadelphia
      • Battle of Germantown
    • 1778
      • Battle of Monmouth
      • Battle of Savannah
    • 1779
      • Battle of Baton Rouge
      • Battle of Vincennes
    • 1780
      • Battle of Charleston
      • Battle of Camden
      • Battle of King's Mountain
    • 1781
      • Battle of Cowpens
      • Battle of Guilford Court House
      • Siege of Ninety Six
      • Siege of Yorktown

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