William Penn: Founding of Pennsylvania and Vision of Tolerance

William Penn

An English Quaker, religious thinker, writer, and colonial proprietor. In 1681, he was granted the proprietorship of the Province of Pennsylvania by Charles II, and in 1682, he traveled to North America to found Philadelphia. Grounded in his Quaker faith, he envisioned colonial governance centered on religious tolerance and engaged in treaty and land negotiations with Native Americans. He also wrote numerous works defending the Quaker faith in England.

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Year	William Penn
1644	Birth of William Penn (Period: October 14, 1644 (Old Style; October 24, 1644 in New Style), Location: London (Tower Hill, England))
1652	Anglo-Dutch Wars (Age: 7 years old, Period: 1652–1674, Location: England, the Netherlands, Atlantic Ocean, North America, etc.)
1660	Activities as a Quaker Thinker and Writer (William Penn, Age: 15 years old, Period: 1660s–1680s, Location: England and Europe)
1666	Quaker Conversion (William Penn, Age: 21 years old, Period: Around 1666, Location: Ireland)
1668	Imprisonment in the Tower of London (William Penn, Age: 23 years old, Period: Around 1668–1669, Location: Tower of London, London)
1670	Involvement in the Governance Principles of West Jersey (Age: 25 years old, Period: 1670s, Location: England and New Jersey) Trial of William Penn and William Mead (Age: 25 years old, Period: September 1670, Location: Old Bailey, London)
1672	Marriage (William Penn, Gulielma Maria Posthuma Springett, Age: 27 years old, Period: April 4, 1672, Location: King John's Farm, Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, England)
1680	Boundary Dispute with Maryland (Age: 35 years old, Period: 1680s–1760s, Location: Present-day Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland area)
1681	Design of the Pennsylvania Colony (Age: 36 years old, Period: 1681–1682, Location: England) The "Holy Experiment" of Pennsylvania (Age: 36 years old, Period: 1681–early 18th century, Location: Pennsylvania Colony) Grant of the Charter for the Pennsylvania Colony (Age: 36 years old, Period: March 4, 1681, Location: London, England)
1682	Establishment of Philadelphia (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1682–1683, Location: Philadelphia, present-day Pennsylvania) Land Negotiations and Treaties with the Lenape (Age: 37 years old, Period: After 1682, Location: Around present-day Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Enactment of the Frame of Government (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1682, Location: Pennsylvania Colony) Arrival in Pennsylvania (William Penn, Age: 37 years old, Period: October 1682, Location: Delaware River / Pennsylvania Colony)
1690	Proposal for Colonial Union (Age: 45 years old, Period: 1690s–early 18th century, Location: England and British Colonies in North America)
1696	Marriage (William Penn, Hannah Margaret Callowhill, Age: 51 years old, Period: March 5, 1696, Location: Quakers' Friars Meeting House, Bristol, England)
1699	Final Visit to Pennsylvania (William Penn, Age: 54 years old, Period: 1699–1701, Location: Pennsylvania Colony)
1701	Separation of the Three Lower Counties of Delaware (Age: 56 years old, Period: 1701–1704, Location: Delaware Bay area)
1718	Death of William Penn (Age: 73 years old, Period: August 10, 1718 (July 30 in Old Style))

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East India Company	James Lancaster John Davis William Keeling Henry Middleton Thomas Best Thomas Roe Josiah Child Gerald Aungier Job Charnock
Expansion into North America	John Smith John Winthrop William Bradford William Penn James Oglethorpe Cecil Calvert John Cabot
Science and Astronomy	Galileo Galilei Johannes Kepler Francis Bacon René Descartes William Harvey Robert Boyle Robert Hooke Christiaan Huygens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Isaac Newton Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Arts and Culture	Peter Paul Rubens Rembrandt van Rijn Diego Velázquez Johannes Vermeer Anthony van Dyck Giovanni Battista Lulli Antoine Watteau

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