1600s 1646 • First church built by the Swedes consecrated on Tinicum Island. 1677 • Second Swedes church dedicated, in Southwark, below the present Christian Street. 1681 • March 4. Charter of Pennsylvania granted by Charles II. 1682 • October 24. Landing of at New Castle, Delaware.• November.

Penn's Treaty with the Indians at Shackamaxon. 1684 • August 12. William Penn left Philadelphia, and returned to England. 1690 • First paper mill established by William Rittenhouse, on Wissahickon Creek. 1698 • Quaker meeting House built, S.

Corner Second and High (Market) Streets, which was pulled down in 1755, and another erected, which was demolished in 1808.• First school book published in America by Francis Pastorius. 1700s 1700 • July 2. New Swedes Church consecrated on the on the ground formerly occupied by the Swedes Church, Southwark.• December 2. William Penn arrived at Philadelphia. 1701 • October 25. Charter granted to the city of Philadelphia by William Penn.• November 1.

William Penn left Philadelphia for England. 1704 • First Presbyterian Church built, High Street and White Horse Alley (Market and Bank Streets). 1710 •, Protestant Episcopal, built on Second Street, above Market; replaced by the present church in 1727. 1715 • A club was formed called the Bachelors' Club, situate on the Delaware shore above Gunners' Run. This was the first country club adjacent to the city. 'Bachelors' Hall,' as it was commonly called, was made notorious by its festivities. 1719 • December 22.

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1723 • October. Arrived in Philadelphia and applied to Andrew Bradford, the printer, for employment. Employed as a printer until he and his friend James Ralph, a merchant's clerk, in 1724 sailed together to London to 'seek their fortunes.' Franklin returned to Philadelphia October 11, 1726. In the winter of 1726-27, he found the Junto. 1724 • Founding the Carpenter's Company.

1729 • March 1. Welsh citizens organize the 'Society of Ancient Britons' at the Queen's Head Tavern in King Street (now Water Street.) Attend service in Christ Church, sermon preached in the original Cymric. 1731 • July 1. The founded.• First Baptist Church built, Second Street below Arch. 1732 • A fishing club was instituted under the title of 'Colony of Schuylkill.' This club, which is yet in existence on the Delaware, at Andalusia, is now known as the State in Schuylkill.

1733 •, in Willing's Alley, Built. 1734 • September 22. Arrival of the English ship St.

Andrew with the first contingent of emigrants, followers of Caspar Schwenkfeld, a repressed sect in Silesia and Germany. Driver 2 Psp Game Download there. On the next day (September 23d) all male persons over the age of sixteen years proceeded to the State House, and there subscribed a pledge of allegiance to George 2, King of Great Britain, and his successors. They spent the 24th in thanksgiving to Almighty God for delivering them out of the hands of their persecutors, for raising up friends in the times of their greatest need, and for leading them into a land of freedom where they might worship Him unmolested by civil or ecclesiastical power. To this day the 24th of September is so observed by this sect. The emigrants settled in Montgomery, Berks and Lehigh Counties. 1742 • First Moravian Church built at the S.

Race and Bread streets. First type made by Christopher Sauer, Germantown. 1743 • First German Church built in Race Street Below Fourth. Michael's German Lutheran Church, corner of Fifth and Appletree Alley, built. 1744 • The The first fire insurance company in America. 1745 • April 15. The first theatrical performance given in Philadelphia, in a storehouse, Water Street, near Vine.

1755 • May 28. Cornerstone of the laid. 1761 • Lottery schemes proposed and ran riot. Lottery held for disposing of 46 acres of land on Petty's Land on, the property of Alexander Alexander.

Other projects were for the paving of streets in Philadelphia, and for the benefit of various churches. Driver Updater on this page. District of Southwark created. Boundary, Delaware River, Cedar Street (South); thence west to the Passyunk Road, to the Moyamensing Road, by Keeler's Lane to the Greenwich Road to Delaware River• November. Organization of the first medical college in Pennsylvania, by Dr.

William Shippen, Jr. Located on Fourth Street, below Arch.

1771 • The Assembly this year resolved to provide the city a new jail, the one at southwest corner of Third and High (Market) Streets being confusedly and notoriously inefficient. 1773 • September 5. Provincial Congress met at Carpenters' Hall. 1774 • October 21. The building of Walnut Street prison authorized by act of Assembly. 1775 • Continental Congress in session at Philadelphia elects Benjamin Franklin (Printer) first.

(A Pony Express was established. In summer the mail left New York for Philadelphia twice a week and vice versa. In winter if mail came within two weeks, was considered good. Franklin, with his keen appreciation of all the advance of science, doubtless would be lost in admiration of those winged couriers of the skies who daily traverse the aerial paths from the Hudson to the Golden Gate and who now span the Continent in less time than it took in his day to transmit a letter from Boston to the Potomac.) 1776 • July 4.

The adopted.• July 8. The Declaration of Independence read to the people from the Observatory, State House Yard, by John Nixon. 1777 • September 26. The British entered Philadelphia. • October 15.

Battle of Germantown. • October 22.

Battle of Red Bank. • November 15. Mud Fort evacuated, and taken by the British. 1778 • June 18. The British evacuated Philadelphia.

1781 • May 26. Act of Congress passed, authorizing the establishment of the Bank of North America.

The bank opened January, 1783. 1782 • First Hebrew Synagogue built, Cherry Street, above Third. 1784 • January 14. Definitive treaty of peace with England ratified by Congress. Triumphal arch erected at 'the upper end of High Street,' then between Sixth and Seventh Streets.

1786 • July 20. First skiff steamboat navigated on the Delaware River, by John Fitch.

1787 • August 22. Steamboat forty-five feet long navigated on the Delaware River by John Fitch. Steamboat navigated from Philadelphia to Burlington, New Jersey, by John Fitch. 1789 • March 11. Act to incorporate the city of Philadelphia passed by the Legislature.• October 12. David Cronan, Francis Burns, John Burnett, John Logan and John Ferguson hung at Centre Square for the murder of John McFarland.• First election of President of the United States.

1790 • April 17. (Saturday evening.). Buried in, southeast corner of Fifth and Arch St.

In keeping with his wishes, the epitaph Franklin composed was not carved on his tombstone. The autograph 'copy' of the epitaph in the Library of Congress is dated 1784 and reads: The body of B. Franklin, printer (Like the cover of an old Book Its contents torn out And stripped of its lettering and gilding) Lies here, food for worms.

But the work shall not be lost, For it will (as he believ'd) appear once more In a new and More elegant Edition Revised and corrected By the Author. • December 6. Congress moves from New York to Philadelphia, meeting. As the home of Congress, Philadelphia was the capital of the nation, and would remain so until 1800. 1791 • The Bank of North America abandoned the old system of keeping its accounts in pounds, shillings and pence and adopted that of dollars and cents. 1792 • April 2.

Act passed establishing. Mint erected on the east side of Seventh Street, above Sugar Alley (afterward known as Farmer Street, now Filbert Street). 1793 • First Universalist Church built in Lombard Street, above Fourth.• March 23. The Assembly passed an act to extend the market house on High Street (Market) from Third to Fourth Street, and to extend it as occasion required, from street to street westward.• Yellow Fever. Deaths in August-November: 4,002. 1794 • April 18. District of Southwark incorporated.• Market house erected in the middle of Second Street to extend from Coates (Fairmount Avenue) to Popular Street.

1795 • The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, the first in the United States, opened. Ordinance passed compelling the owners and occupants of houses in the city in the city to provide and keep in repair any number of leathern buckets not exceeding six for each building, to be used in extinguishing fires. 1797 • Yellow Fever. Deaths, August-November, 1,292.

1798 • Yellow Fever. Deaths, August-November, 3,637. An act was passed by the Legislature chartering 'The Germantown and Reading Turnpike Road,' said turnpike to commence at the intersection of Front Street with the Germantown Road, thence through Germantown to the top of Chestnut Hill and thence through Hickorytown, the Trappe, and Pottstown to Reading. Arrival of, the Polish Patriot. Received by a large gathering of citizens.• September 2. Bank of Pennsylvania entered at night and robbed of $162,821.61.

Other banks becoming alarmed, transferred to Germantown. The streets at night being deserted due to the prevailing fever. 1799 • May 2. Work upon the Schuylkill Water Works, at Chestnut Street wharf and Centre Square commenced.

First water thrown into the city January 21, 1801. • December 26. National Funeral Procession for (who had died at Mount Vernon on December 14). Thousands of mourners process from Congress Hall to the New (Zion) Lutheran Church, where Maj.

Henry Lee eulogizes the former president as 'First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.' 1800s 1800 • March 7. The town of Frankford incorporated as a borough. • Yellow Fever.

Deaths, August-November, 1,015. • Schuylkill Arsenal, near Gray's Ferry, built. 1801 • United States Navy Yard (foot of Federal Street, Delaware River) established. • February 12. Incorporation of the Germantown and Perkiomen Turnpike Company. The road to begin at the corner of Third and Vine Streets.

1802 • Yellow Fever. Deaths, August-November, 835. 1803 • District of Northern Liberties incorporated. The Cheltenham and Willow Grove Turnpike Company incorporated. Their route was 'from the Rising Sun Tavern through Shoemakertown (Ogontz) to the Red Lion Inn (Willow Grove), on the Old York Road.' • On the same day another company was incorporated to build a turnpike 'from Front Street through Frankford and Bustleton to the Morrisville Ferry, Bucks County.'

1804 • Manufacturing enterprises continued to be established. The largest of the year was the Seth Craige cotton mill (later the old Globe Mill), bordering on the Cohocksink Creek, Germantown Ave.

Below Franklin Ave. (Girard Ave.). This formally was 'the Governor's grist mill.' This cotton mill became later on an extensive concern, manufacturing cotton and woolen fabrics. 1807 • Arch Street prison built.

• Spark's Shot Tower, Southwark, built. • Beck's Shot Tower, near the Schuylkill River, above Arch Street, built. 1808 • Race course established in the Northern Liberties, on the Old York Road at the corner of Nicetown Lane. Afterwards known as Hunting Park. Later on Purchased by some public spirited citizens and presented to the city for a public park. 1809 • Olympic Theatre built, N.E.

Corner Ninth and Walnut Streets. 1810 • The first steam ferry boat used to convey passengers from Philadelphia to Camden.

'Camden' Captain Zeiba Kellam. Course, lower side of Market Street to Cooper Street. 1812 • March 24.

District of Moyamensing incorporated. 1813 • March 22. District of Spring Garden incorporated. 1814 • Anthracite coal introduced in Philadelphia.

In History of the Falls of Schuylkill, Chas. Hagner describes the introduction of anthracite coal as follows: 'White & Hazard were using in their rolling mill, bituminous coal. They knew of the large body of anthracite at the head of the Schuylkill, and early commenced making experiments with it. They had some brought down in wagons, at an expense of one dollar per bushel- twenty-eight dollars per ton-expended a considerable sum of money in experimenting but could not succeed in making it burn. The hands working in the mill got heartily sick and tired of it, and it was about being abandoned. But, on a certain occasion, after they had been trying for a long time to make it burn without success, they became exasperated, threw large quantity of the 'black stones' as they called them, into the furnace, shut the doors, and left the mill.

It so happened that one of them had left his jacket in the mill, and in going there for it some time afterwards he discovered a tremendous fire in the furnace, doors red with heat. He immediately called all hands and they ran through the rolls three separate heats of iron with that one fire. Here was an important discovery, and it was the first practically successful use of our anthracite coal, now so common. The important discovery was the simple fact that all that was wanted to ignite it was time, and to be 'let alone'. All this may appear strange now, but the men employed in that mill — and everyone else who used the bituminous coal — were accustomed to see it blaze up the moment they threw it on the fire, and because the anthracite would not do so they could not understand it, and the more they scratched and poked at it — an operation necessary with the bituminous coal — the worse it was with the anthracite. Upon making this discovery, Josiah White immediately began to make experiments in contriving various kinds of grates to make the anthracite applicable for domestic use, in which he finally succeeded to admiration' This coal was sent down from the Lehigh; it cost delivered in Philadelphia about fourteen dollars a ton.

1815 • February 13. New received of the signing of a treaty of peace with England.

Grand illumination in the evening. Grand Ball given at Vauxhall Garden, northeast, corner of Broad and Walnut Streets. A grand Te Deum, in honor of the event, sung at St.

Augustine's Church on February 26th. • December 29. Launching of the new steamboat Baltimore at the shipyard of Vaughn & Bowers, Kensington. 1816 • Gas as an illuminant introduced. The first private residence in the United States lighted by gas was that of William Henry, coppersmith, at No. 200 Lombard Street, near Seventh.

1818 • In November, 1815, the county Commissioners proposed a plan of education to the City Councils, which led, in January, 1816, to the appointment of a committee to consult with the commissioners of Southwark and of the Northern Liberties. But it was not until 1818 that the details were sanctioned by the Legislature, when an act was passed providing for the education of poor children at the public expense in the city and county of Philadelphia, forming the 'first School District of Pennsylvania.' The School Controllers established two schools in Southwark, two in Moyamensing, two in Northern Liberties and two in Penn Township. A model school was erected on the side of Chester Street, above Race. The first Superintendent of schools was Joseph Lancaster. • The team boat Peacock ran from Market Street Ferry to the mineral Springs on the Rancocas. The team boat Phoenix ran between Greenwich Point and Gloucester, propelled by the action of eight horses.

• The legislature passed an act dividing the Northern Liberties into seven wards.