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Fort Christina now part of Wilmington Delaware was the first settlement named after the reigning Swedish monarch the sole daughter of Gustavas Adolphus. Along with swedes and Finns a number of the settlers were Dutch.
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The Dutch founded the first European settlement in Delaware at Lewes then called Zwaanendael in 1631.
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After a 4-month voyage from Gothenburg Kalmar Nyckel arrives in the Delaware in March. Captain Peter Minuit purchases land on west bank from the Schuylkill River to Bombay Hook, builds Fort Christina at present Wilmington and leaves 24 men under the command of Lt. Måns Kling.
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The Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam was Peter Stuyvesant. The colony of New Netherland expanded to land that is now the state of New Jersey. Then in 1655 New Netherland took control of New Sweden.
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The Dutch lost New Netherland to the English during the second Anglo-Dutch war in 1664 only a few years after the establishment of Wiltwyck.
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When Penn was granted the land he split it in to three different colonies. Those colonies soon split and joined together to form Delaware.
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When Penn gained control of Delaware he made it part of Pennsylvania. as he did this the colonists didn’t like how he ran things so they protested and won and became a independent colony again.
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Captain Kidd sailed along the Delaware River in hope of some gold. When he hit a rock in the water it stopped his ship, as he was trying to move the rock he saw something yellow in the water at the shallow part. After he got close he saw that It was gold. After he got passed the rock he was rich of gold and sailed out back to the ocean.
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In 1701, after years of dissatisfaction under Penn's rule, the residents of the Three Lower Counties petitioned for their right to have a separate government.
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All the countries later broke apart and formed Delaware. Penn was mad he tried to attack the colony of Delaware. When he attacked they were ready and Penn was defeated and Delaware was officially one of the thirteen colonies.
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The first Assembly of the " Lower Counties," as they were frequently styled, met in 1704, with annual sessions thereafter, until 1776, when a constitution, forming the state of Delaware, was adopted.
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Dixon's line was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute involving Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware in Colonial America.
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Caesar Rodney, Thomas McKean, George Read represented Delaware in the first Continental congress. The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774.
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On this day in 1776, the Assembly of the Lower Counties of Pennsylvania declares itself independent of British and Pennsylvanian authority, thereby creating the state of Delaware.
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John McKinley was governor from May 1 1780 to July 19 1852. He was elected by the people of Delaware.
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On September 17, 1777, a majority of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention approved the documents over which they had labored since May. After a farewell banquet, delegates swiftly returned to their homes to organize support, most for but some against the proposed charter.
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The Delaware legislature became the first to ratify the Constitution by a vote of 30-0 on December 7, 1787. The ninth state New Hampshire ratified it on June 21, 1788, and the new Constitution went into effect on March 4, 1789.
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Delaware is known by this nickname due to the fact that on December 7, 1787, it became the first of the 13 original states to ratify the U.S. Constitution. “The First State” became the official State nickname on May 23, 2002.
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Much of the fighting during the War of 1812 took place in the north along the border between the United States and Britain's Canadian provinces, on the open ocean, or in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Thomas Macdonough. U.S. naval officer who won one of the most important victories in the War of 1812 at the Battle of Plattsburg (or Lake Champlain) against the British.
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The history of education in the United States, or Foundations of Education covers the trends in Boston Latin School was founded in 1635 and is both the first public school public school in North America, the Mather School, was opened in Particularly after white Democrats regained control of the state legislatures in.
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Supported by the Delaware Railroad in the early nineteenth century, Delaware became the leading producer of peaches in the United States. Almost 6,000,000 baskets of peaches were shipped to market in 1832, Delaware's peak production year. Delaware became known as.
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The National Prohibition Act, also known as the Volstead Act, was enacted on October 18, 1919. Prohibition in the United States went into effect on January 17, 1955. With the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment on February 20 and its ratification on December 5.
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In 1933 state conventions ratified the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed Prohibition. The Amendment was fully ratified on December 5, 1933. Federal laws enforcing Prohibition were then repealed.
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The state’s geographic position and its north-south split between industrial and agricultural economies reflected the split in the country as a whole. Although there were Delawareans throughout the state who supported the president, northern New Castle County tended to be heavily pro-Union, while many southern Delawareans sympathized with the South.
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Congees sent a document to the colonies and wanted them to join together to form an army to defeat the British. Delaware did not accept it because they didn’t want their men dying for this.
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Shortly after routing the Union Army of Virginia under Maj. Gen. John Pope in the Second Battle of Bull run Second Battle of Manassas in August, 1862 Lee led his own Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac into Maryland.
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Lincoln had only one reason to fight: to save the Union. In time, however, there was another reason to fight: to free the black people held as slaves in the South.
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The 13th Amendment, which was ratified by the states on Dec. 6, 1865 abolished slavery declaring: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
