List the following events in chronological order: 1. Britain repealed all the Townshend Acts except the tea tax. 2. The Committees of Correspondence and Safety were established. 3. The Boston Tea Party occurred.

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The events listed are important in the lead-up to the American Revolution, and they occurred in the following chronological order:

1. Britain repealed all the Townshend Acts except the tea tax. (This event took place in 1770.) 2. The Committees of Correspondence and Safety were established. (This started in various colonies from 1772 and onward.) 3. The Boston Tea Party occurred. (This event happened on December 16, 1773.)

Extra: The Townshend Acts were a series of measures imposed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767, named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists by placing taxes on imported goods such as glass, paper, and tea. The Acts led to widespread protest in the colonies and were partly repealed in 1770, but the tax on tea was retained, leading to further discord.

The Committees of Correspondence and Safety were early American organizations established in the Thirteen Colonies to help coordinate resistance to British policies. These committees served as powerful tools to spread news of British actions throughout the colonies and to plan collective actions. They became the American colonists' means for maintaining communication lines and were a precursor to the Continental Congress.

The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a city in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. This act of defiance led to severe punishment by the British government and helped spark the American Revolution.