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The Birth of Pennsylvania, a portrait of William Penn (standing with document in hand), who founded the Province of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a refuge for Quakers after receiving a royal deed to it from King Charles II. The history of Pennsylvania stems back thousands of years when the first indigenous peoples occupied the area of what is now ...
The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn, who received the land through a grant from Charles II of England in 1681. The name Pennsylvania was derived from "Penn's Woods", referring to William Penn's father Admiral Sir William Penn.
1827 – Pennsylvania Horticultural Society established. 1828 – Register of Pennsylvania begins publication. [31] 1829 Pennsylvania Inquirer newspaper begins publication. [4] Eastern State Penitentiary built. 1830 – Population: 80,462. September: first national colored convention at Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church, Philadelphia [32] 1831
By the mid-18th century, Pennsylvania was basically a middle-class colony with limited deference to the small upper-class. A writer in the Pennsylvania Journal summed it up in 1756: The People of this Province are generally of the middling Sort, and at present pretty much upon a Level.
1949 Pennsylvania national insurance group moves to new HQ on Derry St. 1950 89,554 people live in Harrisburg: Largest Standard Metropolitan Area population in city's history. Harrisburg Standard Metropolitan Area (SMA), consisting of Cumberland and Dauphin counties, was first defined.
1607 – Founding of the Jamestown Settlement. Attempted colony at Sagadahoc fails. 1608 – Founding of Quebec City by Samuel de Champlain. 1609–10 – The Starving Time at Jamestown. [1] 1609 – Henry Hudson explores the Hudson River. 1610- First English settlement in Newfoundland; 1611–16 – Thomas Dale and Thomas Gates serve as ...
1598: Failed French settlement on Sable Island off Nova Scotia. 1598: Spanish settlement in Northern New Mexico. 1600: By 1600 Spain and Portugal were still the only significant colonial powers. North of Mexico the only settlements were Saint Augustine and the isolated outpost in northern New Mexico.
The Indian wars of Pennsylvania: An account of the Indian events, in Pennsylvania, of the French and Indian War, Pontiac's War, Lord Dunmore's War, the Revolutionary War and the Indian Uprising from 1789 to 1795. Tragedies of the Pennsylvania frontier. Telegraph Press. ISBN 978-5871748480. Snyder, Charles M.; Downie, John W.; Kalp, Lois (2000).