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1725:	James Otis Jr. is born in Barnstable, Massachusetts.
1739:	Otis enters Harvard.
1740:	Religious revival at Harvard begins. Otis becomes studious.
1743:	Otis graduates Harvard.
1745 or 1746:	Otis begins to read law with Jeremy Gridley.
1748:	Otis admitted to the bar in Plymouth.
1755:	Otis marries Ruth Cunningham.
1756:	Otis becomes a justice of the peace in Suffolk County.
[By] 1760:	Otis becomes deputy advocate general of Massachusetts.
1760:	Francis Bernard becomes governor of Massachusetts.
	George II dies. George III becomes king.
	Thomas Hutchinson becomes chief justice of Massachusetts.
1761:	Otis quits his official post, represents Boston’s merchants against the writs.
	Writs of Assistance case heard in February and in August.
1762:	Otis-Hutchinson feud over currency and other local issues.
	Otis publishes the Vindication of the House.
1763:	French and Indian War ends. Britain now master of a worldwide empire, and possessor of a substantial war debt.
1764:	Sugar Act passes.
	Otis publishes The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved.
1765:	Stamp Act passes.
	Otis publishes Vindication of the British Colonies, Brief Remarks on the Defence of the Halifax Libel, and Letter to a Noble Lord.
	Otis starts the “John Hampden” essays. In the spring, he proposes a Stamp Act Congress; in the fall he attends it.
1766:	Stamp Act repealed. Declaratory Act passes.
	Otis concludes the “John Hampden” essays.

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1767:	Townshend Acts become law.
	Otis sees to publication of “Farmer’s Letters” in Boston.
1769:	Otis-Robinson brawl.
1770:	Otis no longer mentally competent. He is removed from Boston.
1771:	Massachusetts Probate Court finds that Otis is a “distracted or lunatick person.”
1776:	American independence is declared.
1783:	Treaty of Paris ends America’s Revolutionary War.
	Otis dies, struck by bolt of lightning.