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Captain John Smith of Virginia visited the Susquehannock Indians.
He journeyed from Virginia up the Susquehanna River to visit them. -
Henry Hudson claimed land for Dutch
An Englishman in the Dutch service, sailed the Half Moon into Delaware Bay. There he claimed land for the Dutch. -
Swedes established first permanent settlement in Pennsylvania on Tinicum Island.
This occupied the site of Wilmington, Delaware. -
Trading posts were established.
Most trading products were corn, wheat, and other goods -
Dutch seized Swedish settlements.
Governor Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands seized New Sweden and made it part of the Dutch colony. -
William Penn received royal grant of Pennsylvania from King Charles II.
He received the land so that they could be even. King Charles owed them money. -
Penn signed friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians.
They did this so they could help each other out. -
Germantown Quakers adopted first antislavery resolution in America
They were finally realized and happy it happened. -
The first Catholic congregation was organized in Philadelphia.
They all decided they needed some place where they could all worship together an have it be their own place. -
George Washington begins to build Fort Necessity.
George Washington was 21-22 at the time. -
The war of 1812 ended.
It was between U.S. and Great Britain it was around Pennsylvania. It confirmed Americas independence. -
Lucretia Mott, a Quaker preacher and teacher, became president of the Female Anti-Slavery Society.
Was one of four women to participate at the formation of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia in 1833, and became president of the Female Anti-Slavery Society. -
Liberty Bell cracked while being tolled for Chief Justice John Marshall.
The Liberty Bell is in Pennsylvania. -
Convention was called to revise the state's laws and draft a new constitution.
The resulting constitution reduced the governor's appointive power, increased the number of elective offices, and shortened terms of office. The voters were given a greater voice in government and were better protected from abuses of power. However, free African Americans were disenfranchised. The burning of Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia showed that the new constitution coincided with an awakened hostility toward abolition and racial equality. -
A lot of immigrants left.
There was increased urbanization, although rural life remained strong and agriculture involved large numbers of people. The immigrant tide swelled because of large numbers of Irish fleeing the potato famine of the late 1840s and Germans fleeing the political turbulence of their homeland about the same time. -
Great Fire of Pittsburgh
There was a fire and over 1000 buildings were damaged. Later on George Dallas because U.S. Vice President. Destroying a third of the city and causing between $6 million and $12 million in damage.[1] While having little effect on the culture of the city except to spur further growth, it would provide a temporal reference point for the remainder of the century and beyond. -
The Liberty rang for the last time.
It rang one last time for George Washington’s birthday. They don’t ring it anymore because they don’t want to break it anymore. -
Great Train Wreck of 1856
At the Wissahickon station another train, the Aramingo, engineered by William Vanstavoren, waited for the excursion to pass on the single track line that had opened one year and 15 days earlier. -
Two-day Battle of Gettysburg was turning point in war.
President Lincoln delivered Gettysburg Address; dedicated national cemetery. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's attempt to invade the North. -
American Baseball League formed.
Everyone thought it would be great entertainment and fun. They loved it. Lots of people wanted to do it. -
Connellsville Train Wreck
The most appalling disaster in the history of the Pittsburg Division of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad occurred at Laurel run, two miles west of Dawson, last evening. -
Major mine explosion in Cheswick.
179 coal miners died.The Harwick Mine disaster was a mining accident on January 25 in Cheswick, Pennsylvania, sixteen miles north of Pittsburgh in the western pa. The blast killed an estimated 179 miners and 2 aid workers.The disaster ranks among the ten worst coal mining disasters in American history. Fifty-eight of the members of the First Hungarian Reformed Church of Homestead—a full third of the congregation—died in the explosion. -
Rhoads Opera House Fire
A kerosene lantern was accidentally knocked over starting a fire on the stage and igniting gas from the stereopticon.170 men, women and children perished when they were unable to escape from the second floor auditorium. It was later determined that the crowd was unable to find and use fire escapes, and that the doors people were trying to exit through could not be opened outward, therefore the crush of bodies effectively locked people inside the burning building -
Austin Pennsylvania Flood
The dam shudders and crack. Millions of gallons of water twisted and tumbled the concrete. Worse yet, the water carried the remains of an upstream log dam and a mass of floating pulpwood - more than 20,000 cord feet - wiping out everything in its path. -
Ernest Mine Disaster
Gas over falls in a pillar area was ignited by an open light. The force was not great, and the explosion was local. Dust was ignited but did not carry the explosion, as haulage ways were damp. -
Frankford Junction Train Wreck
One hundred and fifty persons were reported killed and more than 90 injured in the wreck of the Congressional Limited, fastest train of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in northeast Philadelphia tonight. -
Hurricane Hazel
Leaving a death toll in Hati of more than 200 and an injured list of at least 500, according to unofficial reports reaching here, Hurricane Hazel moved toward the island of Mayaguana in the Bahamas late today. -
USAir Flight 427 Crash
USAir Flight 427 was a scheduled flight from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with a final destination of West Palm Beach, Florida. The aircraft experienced a sudden loss of control and slammed into the ground in a nearly vertical nose down position in Hopewell Township, Beaver County near Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, killing all 127 passengers and 5 crew members. -
United Airlines flight 93 was hijacked. Also there was a tropical storm
Hijacked and crashed southeast of Pittsburgh, killed all 45 passengers. Tropical Storm Allison was a storm that devastated Texas in June. An arguable example of the "brown ocean effect", Allison lasted unusually long for a June storm, remaining tropical or subtropical for 15 days, most of them over land dumping torrential rains. The storm developed from tropical wave in the northern Gulf of Mexico on June 4, 2001, and struck the upper Texas coast shortly thereafter and moved toward Pennsylvania -
John Murtha Dies
Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a longtime fixture on the House subcommittee that oversees Pentagon spending, died after complications from gallbladder surgery, according to his office.
