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PA timeline

  • Period: Jan 1, 1000 to Jan 1, 1500

    woodland period

  • Period: Jan 1, 1492 to Jan 1, 1493

    columbus and three ships

  • Period: Jan 5, 1492 to Jan 5, 1493

    cloumbus lands in the caribeian

  • Period: Jan 5, 1500 to

    many tribes live in PA

  • Period: Jan 5, 1500 to

    first contact with europeans

  • jamestown in virgnia was setteled

  • henry hudson explors the delaware bay area

  • pilgrums settle in plymouth there ship is called the may flower

  • Peter Minuit comes to new netherland

    Peter Minuit comes to new netherland
    peter minuet bought indans land and signed a tready he named the land new sweeded.
  • new sweden is founded

    new sweden is founded
    Birger Jarl founed sweeden in the year 1638
  • ducth take over new sweden

    ducth take over new sweden
    johan rising replaced johan printz as govener of new sweeden the new govner made a mistake that ended the ducth & sweeden truse creating a war ending in the ducth winning
  • england takes over the colony (new york)

    england takes over the colony (new york)
    england decided to take the colony of new york from the ducth (whom took it from sweeden) in1664 there was noone killed in the prosess.
  • william penn is granted the charter for pennsylvania

  • PA is founded

    PA is founded
    king charles II & william penns fater were close friends and the king owed his father a large sum of money so william asked for land in amrica. the king aggreed after all the land would bare the name of his good friend.
  • william penn meets with the delaware indans

  • willum penn dies

  • ben franklin arrives in philly

  • walking purchase

    walking purchase
    after w. penn died land disputes grew. penns secratery james logan tried to settle things. eventuly penns brothers becabe so fed up they grew violient they told the tribe to sell them there land and get out. so the natives found a deed singed by w. penn years before saying if a purchaced is needed only the amount a man can walk in a day and a half so james logan took 3 storng men cleared there path so that it woun't slow them down and got them to run insted of walk in 3 diffrent directions.
  • Period: to

    french and indian war

    the lands in western PA were being claimed and the indans were not to happy about this so some indans teamed up with the french in 1754. then on one day the bridtish beat there drums so loud that the french and indands could hear them miles away.
  • stamp act

  • Pontiac's rebellion

  • townsend act

  • anthresite cole is 1st used in homes

  • bosten tea party

  • 1st contnental consttion is writen

  • the intorlobole acts

  • 2nd contnental congress

  • the PA state constotion is writen

  • the declaration of independence

  • Period: to

    washington occupies vally fordge

  • articles of confedration are adopted by the states

  • jonh finch invents steamboat

  • the U.S. contitution is adopted by the states

  • george washington is elected prez.

  • cornplanters grant

  • lancaster pike compleated

    lancaster pike compleated