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Timeline Of Philadelphia
The following is a :Timelines of cities in the United States, timeline of the History of Philadelphia, history of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 17th century * 1682 – Philadelphia founded as capital of the Kingdom of England, English Crown Province of Pennsylvania by William Penn * 1689 – William Penn Charter School founded * 1691 – Appointment of first Mayor of Philadelphia, mayor, Humphrey Morrey, by Penn 18th century * 1700 – Swedish Lutheran Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church, Gloria Dei Church consecrated. * 1710 – Town Hall built. * 1711 – Old Trinity Church, Trinity Church built * 1719 – ''American Weekly Mercury'' newspaper begins publication. * 1722 – James Logan (statesman), James Logan becomes mayor * 1728 ** ''Pennsylvania Gazette'' newspaper begins publication ** Printer Benjamin Franklin in business. * 1731 – Library Company of Philadelphia established * 1735 – Independence Hall, Pennsylvania State House built * 1736 – Union Fire Company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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:''Related: :Urban planning in the United States'' {{CatAutoTOC, numerals=no *Timeline united states City A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ... city history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Fire Company
Union Fire Company, sometimes called Franklin's Bucket Brigade, was a volunteer fire department formed in Philadelphia in 1736 with the assistance of Benjamin Franklin. It was the first firefighting organization in Philadelphia, although it was followed within the year by establishment of the Fellowship Fire Company. The fire company was formed on 7 December 1736 after a series of publications in the ''Pennsylvania Gazette'' by Franklin and others pointing out the need for more effective handling of fires in Philadelphia and remained active until approximately 1820.Scharf and Westcott, 1889. Although modeled after the Mutual Fire Societies of Franklin's native Boston, the Union Fire Company protected all members of the community rather than only the members of the company. Organization In the 1884 book ''History of Philadelphia, 1609–1884'', John Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott described the organization of the company: The Union Fire Company was an association for mutual a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dickinson (Pennsylvania And Delaware)
John Dickinson (November 13, O.S. November 2">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. November 21732Various sources indicate a birth date of November 8, 12 or 13, but his most recent biographer, Flower, offers November 2 without dispute. – February 14, 1808), a Founding Father of the United States, was an attorney and politician from Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware. Dickinson was known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his twelve '' Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania'', published individually in 1767 and 1768, and he also wrote " The Liberty Song" in 1768. As a member of the First Continental Congress, where he signed the Continental Association, Dickinson drafted most of the 1774 Petition to the King, and then, as a member of the Second Continental Congress, wrote the Olive Branch Petition in 1775. Both of these attempts to negotiate with King George III of Great Britain failed. Dic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennsylvania Chronicle
The ''Pennsylvania Chronicle and Universal Advertiser'' was an American colonial newspaper founded in 1767 that was published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, prior to the American Revolution. It was founded by William Goddard and his silent business partners Joseph Galloway and Thomas Wharton. Benjamin Franklin, an associate of Galloway, was also a partner with the ''Chronicle''. The newspaper was established to challenge the power of the Penn family and ultimately the Crown authorities who at that time were placing laws and taxes on the colonists without fair representation in the British Parliament. The ''Chronicle'' was published once a week on a Monday, the first issue being released on January 6, 1767, and was printed from a new ''Bourgeois type set'' by Goddard's printing company in Philadelphia, ''The New Printing Office'', on Market Street, near the post office. The annual subscription rate was ten shillings. Zimmerman, 1957, p. 351–364 The publication maintained ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwark Theatre In Philadelphia
Southwark Theatre, was a theatre in Philadelphia, founded in 1766. It played a significant part in the Culture of Philadelphia as well as the United States, being the first permanent theatre in Philadelphia and the first permanent theatre in the United States, one year prior to John Street Theatre in New York. It was the oldest theatre building in North America before it was demolished in 1913. History The Southwark Theatre was founded on the intersection of Fourth Street and South Street outside of the city borders in the south of Philadelphia. It was founded by the American Company, who regularly used the building during their tours to the city for about thirty years onward.Dunlap, William, A history of the American theatre' David Douglass, a member of the company, built it, and it became the first permanent theatre building in North America in 1766. It had a capacity of about 800 people. On April 24, 1767, at the Southwark, the American Company staged '' The Prince of Parth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Of Philadelphia
The Academy and College of Philadelphia (1749–1791) was a boys' school and men's college in Philadelphia in the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania. Founded in 1749 by a group of local notables that included Benjamin Franklin, the Academy of Philadelphia began as a private secondary school, occupying a former religious school building at the southwest corner of 4th and Arch Streets. The academy taught reading, writing, and arithmetic to both paying and charity students. The College of Philadelphia was founded in 1755, when the academy's charter was amended to allow the granting of advanced academic degrees. The Medical School of the College of Philadelphia, founded in 1765, was the first medical school in North America. In 1791, the College of Philadelphia merged with the University of the State of Pennsylvania, to form the present-day University of Pennsylvania. History Benjamin Franklin was the first president of the board of trustees and authored the constitution for the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberty Bell
The Liberty Bell, previously called the State House Bell or Old State House Bell, is an iconic symbol of American Revolution, American independence located in Philadelphia. Originally placed in the steeple of Pennsylvania State House, now known as Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell today is located across the street from Independence Hall in the Liberty Bell Center in Independence National Historical Park. The bell was commissioned in 1752 by the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly from the London-based firm Lester and Pack, later renamed the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, and bellfounding, was cast with the lettering "Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof", a Bible, Biblical reference from the Book of Leviticus (). The bell first cracked when rung after its arrival in Philadelphia, and was twice recast by local workmen John Pass and John Stow, whose surnames appear on the bell. In its early years, the bell was used to summon lawmakers to legislati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennsylvania Hospital
Pennsylvania Hospital is a Private hospital, private, non-profit, 515-bed teaching hospital located at 800 Spruce Street (Philadelphia), Spruce Street in Center City, Philadelphia, Center City Philadelphia, The hospital was founded on May 11, 1751 by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond (American physician), Thomas Bond. It was the second public hospital in the United States (after only Bellevue Hospital) and had its first surgical amphitheater. and its first medical library. It is part of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. The hospital's main building, dating to 1756, is a National Historic Landmark. History 18th century Pennsylvania Hospital was originally conceived in 1751 by Thomas Bond as an institution "for the reception and cure of the sick poor...free of charge. It was funded by "matching grant" to donations of the people of Philadelphia by a bill, which the House passed unanimously on February 7, 1750. Franklin later wrote that, "I do not remember any of my pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Academy And College Of Philadelphia
The Academy and College of Philadelphia (1749–1791) was a boys' school and men's college in Philadelphia in the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania. Founded in 1749 by a group of local notables that included Benjamin Franklin, the Academy of Philadelphia began as a private secondary school, occupying a former religious school building at the southwest corner of 4th and Arch Streets. The academy taught reading, writing, and arithmetic to both paying and charity students. The College of Philadelphia was founded in 1755, when the academy's charter was amended to allow the granting of advanced academic degrees. The Medical School of the College of Philadelphia, founded in 1765, was the first medical school in North America. In 1791, the College of Philadelphia merged with the University of the State of Pennsylvania, to form the present-day University of Pennsylvania. History Benjamin Franklin was the first president of the board of trustees and authored the constitution for the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Market And Head House
New Market, as it was originally known, and later also known as Head House (or Headhouse) Market and Second Street Market, is an historic street market which is located on South 2nd Street between Pine and Lombard streets in the Society Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With a history dating to 1745, it is one of the oldest surviving market buildings of its type in the nation. This portion, which survives from a longer structure originally extending all the way to South Street (Philadelphia), South Street, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966, and is the centerpiece of the Head House Square historic district. History Established on Lombard Street in 1745 by mayor Edward Shippen and Joseph Wharton, a wealthy merchant,, p. 25 and named "New Market" to distinguish it from the established market on High (now Market) Street, the market was used well into the 19th century. It originally consisted of sixteen stalls created by two rows of brick pillars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christ Church, Philadelphia
Christ Church is an Episcopal church in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1695 as a parish of the Church of England, it played an integral role in the founding of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. In 1785, its rector, William White, became the first Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. History Christ Church was founded in 1695 by members of the Church of England, who built a small wooden church on the site by the next year. In 1700, Evan Evans traveled from Wales to become their rector. When the congregation outgrew the original building twenty years after its construction, they decided to erect a new church, the most sumptuous in the Thirteen Colonies. The main body of the church was constructed between 1727 and 1744, and the steeple was added in 1754, making it the tallest building in the future United States, at . Christ Church is considered one of the nation's most beautiful surviving 18th-cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, source text, library resources, and community outreach. It was founded by the polymath Benjamin Franklin and is considered the first learned society founded in what became the United States.Philosophical Hall, the society's headquarters and a museum, is located just east of Independence Hall in Independence National Historical Park. In 1965, in recognition of the building's history, it was designated a National Historic Landmark. The society has about 1,000 elected members. As of April 2020, 5,710 members had been inducted since its creation. Through research grants, published journals, the American Philosophical Society Museum, an extensive library, and regular meetings, the society supports a variety of disciplines in the humanitie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
