pnnsylvania

By ruttenc
  • first permanent settlement

    first permanent settlement

    Swedes established first permanent settlement in Pennsylvania on Tinicum Island
  • British captured dutch colonies

    British captured dutch colonies

    British captured Dutch colonies in name of Duke of York
  • William Penn gets the land

    William Penn gets the land

    King Charles II owed William Penn £16,000, money which Admiral Penn had lent him. Seeking a haven in the New World for persecuted Friends, Penn asked the King to grant him land in the territory
  • William Markham deputy gov.

    William Markham deputy gov.

    Penn made his cousin William Markham deputy governor of the province
  • Penn signed peace treaty

    Penn signed peace treaty

    signed friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians; Mennonite families arrived from Germany, settled Germantown
  • first antislavery resolution in america

    first antislavery resolution in america

    Germantown Quakers adopted first antislavery resolution in America
  • first u.s library

    first u.s library

    A library is founded in Philadelphia first us library
  • meating of first continental congress

    meating of first continental congress

    The first Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia
  • declaration of independenced signed

    declaration of independenced signed

    The Declaration of Independence is signed in Philadelphia
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    British troops occupied Philadelphia

  • abolished slavery

    abolished slavery

    first state to abolish slavery (for newborns only)
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    capital of the U.S

    Philadelphia capital of U. S
  • first U.S bank is built

    first U.S bank is built

    The First United States Bank is built
  • liberty bell cracked

    liberty bell cracked

    Liberty Bell cracked while being tolled for Chief Justice John Marshall
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    civil war

    the civil war is when the north and south were fighting.
  • Gettsburg Address

    Gettsburg Address

    President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
  • first department store

    first department store

    In Philadelphia the first department store, The Grand Depot, opened. John Wanamaker turned an abandoned railway depot into one of the world’s 1st department stores
  • first store to install electric lights

    first store to install electric lights

    The 1st US store to install electric lights was in Philadelphia
  • flood in Johnstown

    flood in Johnstown

    Johnstown, Pennsylvania was destroyed by a massive flood
  • miners call strike

    miners call strike

    Over 100,000 miners called strike, closed mines all summer, President Roosevelt intervened, forced mine owners to submit to arbitration
  • race riots

    race riots

    Race riots in Philadelphia
  • John Neumann

    John Neumann

    Jun 19, Pope Paul VI proclaimed a 19th-century Philadelphia bishop, John Neumann, the first male US saint.
  • plum pox

    plum pox

    Oct, The plum pox virus made its first appearance in North America in Pennsylvania orchards.
  • tropical storm

    tropical storm

    June 12 tropical storm Allyson hit
  • trian derailment

    trian derailment

    May 12, In Pennsylvania an Amtrak derailment late today killed 8 people. Brandon Bostian (32) was at the helm of the train when it derailed while traveling at 106 miles per hour, more than double the limit