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Brule was the first European to live with the Indians and the first European to set foot in Pennsylvania
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William Penn the founder of Pennsylvania was born
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Richard Allen , 1st black ordained by a Methodist-Episcopal church, was born in Philadelphia.
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The king of England Charles II granted a charter to William Penn which became Pennsylvania
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William Penn accepted the place around the Delaware River from Duke of York
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The founder of Pennsylvania landed at what is now Chester, Pa. William Penn found pennsylvania as a Holy Experiment
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William Penn established Bucks County as one of Pennsylvania’s 3 original counties.
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William Penn was deprived of his governing powers.
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William Penn presented a Charter of Privileges for the Province of Pennsylvania during his 2nd and last visit to the colony. Among its provisions was one establishing total religious freedom and tolerance to those who wanted to live in peace in the colony.
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The Pennsylvania Assembly banned the importation of slaves.
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William Penn died.
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Benjamin Franklin became the official printer for Pennsylvania. He ultimately became the official printer for several colonial governments.
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The first mention of an African American doctor or dentist in the colonies was made in the Pennsylvania Gazette.
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Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the US, opened.
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Quakers left the assembly of Pennsylvania.
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In the French and Indian War British forces under General John Forbes captured Fort Duquesne George Washington participated in the campaign.
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Benjamin Franklin returned to Philadelphia from London and remained until 1764.
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Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon began surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. They surveyed 233 miles by 1767 when Indians of the Six nations told them they could not proceed any further west.
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Colonel Henry Bouquet decisively defeated the Indians at the Battle of Bushy Run in Pennsylvania during Pontiac's rebellion.
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The boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Mason-Dixon line, was agreed upon. It was first surveyed in 1763 to 1767 by two British astronomers, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, in order to settle a dispute between the Calvert and Penn families
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Pennsylvania had independence from the british
