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William Penn

English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)

20 dated entries naming William Penn, drawn from 13 separate years between 1644 CE and 1984 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Springett Penn (I) in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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17th century

  • 1644October 14 – William Penn, English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania (died 1718)source
  • 164414 October – William Penn, Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania (died 1718)source
  • 1666February – William Penn moves from London to Ireland to manage his father's estates. In May, he is involved in suppressing a mutiny in the English garrison at Carrickfergus.source
  • 1667William Penn attends meetings of the Quakers in Cork, marking his conversion.source
  • 1668December – William Penn imprisoned for nearly 8 months in the Tower of London for writing a pamphlet attacking Trinitarian doctrine.source
  • 1669May–August – George Fox, founder of the Quakers, visits Ireland. William Penn also returns to Ireland this year.source
  • 1670February–April – William Penn visits the Quaker William Morris at Castle Salem, Cork.source
  • 167014 August – Quakers William Penn and William Mead preach in Gracechurch Street in the City of London, in defiance of the new Conventicles Act, and are arrested and tried but on 5 September the jury refuses to convict.source
  • 1670September 5 – William Penn and William Mead are found not guilty of violating the Conventicles Act 1670, after a five day jury trial in London. The two had been arrested on August 14 in front of a meeting house Gracechurch Street after preaching a Quaker sermon outside following a ban on preaching indoors. The defiance by the jury leads to the landmark English decision in Bushel's Case.source
  • 1681March 4 – In order to settle a debt of £16,000, King Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn, for territory west of Delaware River in America between 40° N and 42° N, later to be called Pennsylvania.source
  • 16814 March – William Penn receives a royal charter to establish a sectarian colony in the Americas.source
  • 1682October 27 – The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded by William Penn.source
  • 1682December 11 – William Penn meets with Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore for the first discussion of the boundary between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland, fixed at 40 degrees north. Recognizing that 40° north would remove Pennsylvania's access to the sea, Penn proposes a purchase of some of Maryland's territory.source
  • 1693William Penn publishes his proposal for European federation, Essay on the Present and Future Peace of Europe.source
  • 1696William Penn offers an elaborate plan for intercolonial cooperation largely in trade, defense, and criminal matters.source
  • 1696April 10 – Springett Penn, Member of the Penn family (born 1674)source

18th century

  • 1718July 30 – William Penn, American settler, founder of Pennsylvania (born 1644)source
  • 171830 July – William Penn, Quaker and founder of the Pennsylvania colony (born 1644)source
  • 1732May 10 – Representatives of the heirs of William Penn and of Lord Baltimore, the respective owners of most of the land in the Province of Pennsylvania and the Province of Maryland set out the boundary between the two future U.S. states after a survey determines that Philadelphia is located on the Maryland side of the border. The dispute eventually leads to a lawsuit and the eventual survey by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to determine the Mason–Dixon line.source

20th century

  • 1984November 28 – Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.source

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