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The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. In the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), they established their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain as the United States of America .
The thirteen colonies (shown in red) in 1775. The governments of the Thirteen Colonies of British America developed in the 17th and 18th centuries under the influence of the British constitution. The British monarch issued colonial charters that established either royal colonies, proprietary colonies, or corporate colonies.
British North America comprised the colonial territories of the British Empire in North America from 1783 onwards. English colonisation of North America began in the 16th century in Newfoundland, then further south at Roanoke and Jamestown, Virginia, and more substantially with the founding of the Thirteen Colonies along the Atlantic coast of North America.
Thirteen American Colonies: 4 July: 1776: Fourth of July. Declaration of Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1776. British government recognized independence in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris. Vanuatu: New Hebrides: 30 July: 1980: Independence from United Kingdom and France in 1980. Vanuatu is a Commonwealth republic. Zambia ...
July 2 – American Revolution: The final (despite minor revisions) U.S. Declaration of Independence is written. The full Continental Congress passes the Lee Resolution. July 3 – American Revolution: British troops first land on Staten Island, which will become the longest occupied land for the duration of the conflict.
British Arctic Territories; Colonies that became part of British North America (but which would be left out of the 1867 Confederation of Canada): Bermuda; Newfoundland Colony; Colonies and territories that were ceded to Spain or the United States in 1783: Province of East Florida (Spanish 1783–1823, U.S. after 1823)
The category includes articles on the history of the European Thirteen Colonies on the east coast of present day United States, before the American Revolutionary War See also: Category:Colonization history of the United States , Category:Pre-statehood history of U.S. states , and Category:European colonization of the Americas
One (disputed) school of thought points to the role of abolitionism in the American Revolution: while the British colonial metropole started to move towards outlawing slavery, slave-owning elites in the Thirteen Colonies saw this as one of the reasons to fight for their post-colonial independence and for the right to develop and continue a ...