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Peter Minuit found the land for New Netherlands. That became the First settlement of white people to live on the Delaware River.
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England came and defeated the Dutch and claimed it as part of the New York colony.
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The Duke of York gave William Penn land. That land became Pennsylvania and Delaware.
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The three lower colonies of Pennsylvania left it and became there own region. First it was the three lower colonies, then Delaware.
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Thomas Willing started up a town named Willington. Later it became Wilmington.
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Caesar Rodney, Thomas McKean, and George Read were sent for Delaware to the First Continental Congress.
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Delaware got two representatives to represent. Those two people were Caesar Rodney and Thomas McKean.
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On 1776, The three Lower Colonies adopted the Constitution and became the Delaware State.
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John McKinley became the first governor of Delaware.
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Delaware signed the Articles of Confederation which says that all states remained independent, with congress as the last choice.
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On 1787 Delaware ratified the U.S. Constitution, and became the first state of the USA.
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The Three Lower Colonies change their name to the State of Delaware.
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Delaware state legislature establishes public school fund.
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State house in Dover finished
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The DuPont gunpowder mill was established along the Brandwine River
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Captain Thomas McDonough of Delaware defeated British on Lake Champlain which was the turning point in the war of 1812.
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James Bayard of Delaware, one of the signers of Treaty of Ghent, helped end the War of 1812
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The C&D canal starts getting built.
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Joseph Maull, who was born in Pilottown, becomes Delaware’s 34th governor, serving only nine weeks before dying on 3 May 1846.
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America's first iron-hulled propeller steamship, the Bangor, launched at Wilmington.
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13th Amendment to U. S. Constitution abolished slavery, so Delaware freed slaves
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Delaware legislature voted against 14th Amendment to U. S. Constitution which guaranteed equal protection for all races
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Steel-hulled racing yacht built in Wilmington, The Volunteer, won America's Cup
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In a Boundary dispute with Maryland, Delaware gets land, The Wedge.
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Approximately 10,000 Delawares served in World War 1
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The U.S. Supreme Court confirmed Delaware's right to control the Delaware river
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Approximately 30000 Delaware men and women served in World War 2
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Ruth Ann Minner elected first woman governor of Delaware
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A Cyprus-registered tanker spilled 30,000 gallons of crude oil into Delaware River, created 20-mile long slick, killed dozens of birds
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Residents near Atlantic Ocean, Delaware River ordered to evacuate in advance of Hurricane Irene
