1681    Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.

1682    William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.

1683    William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.

1683    William Penn brings 13 German immigrant families to the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.

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