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Frenchman Etienne Brule paddles down the Susquehanna River into Pennsylvania
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Swedish settlers begin settling Pennsylvania
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Charles II grants Pennsylvania to William Penn
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Penn issues the First Frame of Government and arrives in his colony
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William Penn dies
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The French and Indian War unsettles the Pennsylvania Colony
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Pennsylvania becomes the second state by ratifying it on December 12
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An apple parer was patented by Moses Coats in Downington Penn