Query: The Times has been printed since the American Revolution.

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American Revolution <=SEP=> The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies maintained by force of arms their refusal to submit to the authority of the King and Parliament of Great Britain , and founded the independent United States .   Starting in 1765 , members of American colonial society rejected the authority of the British Parliament to tax them and to create other laws affecting them without colonial representatives in the government . During the following decade , protests continued to escalate by colonists ( known as Patriots ) , as in the Boston Tea Party in 1773 , during which patriots destroyed a consignment of taxed tea from the Parliament-controlled and favored East India Company . The British responded by closing Boston Harbour , demanding that it would not be re-opened until those responsible for the vandalism of property owned by innocent third party merchants paid for the damages caused by their actions in 1774 in what was known as the Coercive Acts , following which Patriots in the other colonies rallied behind Massachusetts . In late 1774 , the Patriots set up their own alternative government to better coordinate their resistance efforts against Great Britain , while other colonists , known as Loyalists , preferred to remain aligned to the British Crown .   Tensions escalated to the outbreak of fighting between Patriot militia and British regulars at Lexington and Concord in April 1775 . The conflict then developed into a global war , during which the Patriots ( and later their French , Spanish , and Dutch allies ) fought the British and Loyalists in what became known as the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 -- 1783 ) . Patriots in each of the thirteen colonies formed Provincial Congresses that assumed power from the old colonial governments and suppressed Loyalism , and from there built a Continental Army under the leadership of General George Washington . The Continental Congress determined King George III 's rule to be tyrannical and infringing the colonists ' `` rights as Englishmen '' , and declared the colonies free and independent states on July 4 , 1776 . The Patriot leadership professed the political philosophies of liberalism and republicanism to reject monarchy and aristocracy , and proclaimed that all men are created equal . Congress rejected British proposals requiring allegiance to the monarchy and abandonment of independence .   The British were forced out of Boston in 1776 , but then captured and held New York City for the duration of the war . They blockaded the ports and captured other cities for brief periods , but failed to defeat Washington 's forces . After a failed Patriot invasion of Canada during the winter of 1775 -- 76 , a British army was captured at the Battle of Saratoga in late 1777 , following which the French openly entered the war as allies of the United States . The war later turned to the American South , where the British under the leadership of Charles Cornwallis captured an army at South Carolina but failed to enlist enough volunteers from Loyalist civilians to take effective control of the territory . A combined American -- French force captured a second British army at Yorktown in 1781 , effectively ending the war in the United States . The Treaty of Paris in 1783 formally ended the conflict , confirming the new nation 's complete separation from the British Empire . The United States took possession of nearly all the territory east of the Mississippi River and south of the Great Lakes , with the British retaining control of Canada and Spain taking Florida .   Among the significant results of the revolution was the creation of a new Constitution of the United States . The new Constitution established a relatively strong federal national government that included an executive , a national judiciary , and a bicameral Congress that represented states in the Senate and population in the House of Representatives . The Revolution also resulted in the migration of around 60,000 Loyalists to other British territories , especially British North America ( Canada ) .

The Times <=SEP=> The Times is a British daily ( Monday to Saturday ) national newspaper based in London , England . It began in 1785 under the title , adopting its current name on 1 January 1788 . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times ( founded in 1821 ) are published by Times Newspapers , since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK , itself wholly owned by News Corp. . The Times and The Sunday Times do not share editorial staff , were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1967 .   In 1959 the historian of journalism Allan Nevins analysed the importance of The Times in shaping the views of events of London 's elite :   For much more than a century The Times has been an integral and important part of the political structure of Great Britain . Its news and its editorial comment have in general been carefully coordinated , and have at most times been handled with an earnest sense of responsibility . While the paper has admitted some trivia to its columns , its whole emphasis has been on important public affairs treated with an eye to the best interests of Britain . To guide this treatment , the editors have for long periods been in close touch with 10 Downing Street .   The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name , lending it to numerous other papers around the world , including The Times of India ( founded in 1838 ) , The Straits Times ( Singapore ) ( 1845 ) , The New York Times ( 1851 ) , The Irish Times ( 1859 ) , Le Temps ( France ) ( 1861-1942 ) , the Cape Times ( South Africa ) ( 1872 ) , the Los Angeles Times ( 1881 ) , the Trenton Times ( 1882 ) , The Seattle Times ( 1891 ) , The Manila Times ( 1898 ) , The Daily Times ( Malawi ) ( 1900 ) , El Tiempo ( Colombia ) ( 1911 ) , The Canberra Times ( 1926 ) , Times of Malta ( 1935 ) , and The Washington Times ( 1982 ) . In these countries , the newspaper is often referred to as or , although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution .   The Times is the originator of the widely used Times Roman typeface , originally developed by Stanley Morison of The Times in collaboration with the Monotype Corporation for its legibility in low-tech printing . In November 2006 The Times began printing headlines in a new font , Times Modern . The Times was printed in broadsheet format for 219 years , but switched to compact size in 2004 in an attempt to appeal more to younger readers and commuters using public transport . The Sunday Times remains a broadsheet .   The Times had an average daily circulation of 446,164 in December 2016 ; in the same period , The Sunday Times had an average daily circulation of 792,210 . An American edition of The Times has been published since 6 June 2006 . It has been heavily used by scholars and researchers because of its widespread availability in libraries and its detailed index . A complete historical file of the digitised paper , up to 2010 , is online from Gale Cengage Learning .