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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. ==17th-18th centuries== * 1682 – Philadelphia founded as capital of the English Crown Province of Pennsylvania by William Penn. * 1685 – Quaker meeting house built * 1689 – William Penn Charter School founded.〔 * 1691 – Appointment of first mayor, Humphrey Morrey, by Penn. * 1700 – Swedish Lutheran Gloria Dei Church consecrated. * 1703 – Flower's coffeehouse in business. * 1710 – Town Hall built. * 1711 – Trinity Church built. * 1719 – ''American Weekly Mercury'' newspaper begins publication. * 1722 – James Logan becomes mayor. * 1728 * * ''Pennsylvania Gazette'' newspaper begins publication. * * Printer Benjamin Franklin in business. * 1731 – Library Company of Philadelphia established * 1735 – Pennsylvania State House built.〔 * 1736 – Union Fire Company formed * 1740 – Kahal Kadosh Mikveh Israel founded. * 1742 * * ''The Pennsylvania Journal'' newspaper begins publication.〔 * * October: Philadelphia Election Riot. * 1743 – Philosophical Society founded. * 1744 – Christ Church built. * 1745 – New Market built. * 1749 – Academy of Philadelphia founded. * 1751 * * Street lighting begins.〔 * * Pennsylvania Hospital founded. * 1753 – Bell hung in tower of State House. * 1755 – College of Philadelphia chartered. * 1757 – Amicable Library Co. founded. * 1766 – American Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge established.〔 * 1767 * * January 6: ''Pennsylvania Chronicle'' newspaper begins publication.〔 * * November: Dickinson's ''Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania'' begin publication. * * New Circulating Library in business.〔 * 1769 – American Philosophical Society formed.〔 * 1771 * * Carpenters' Hall in use. * * ''Pennsylvania Packet'' newspaper begins publication.〔 * * Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick founded. * 1773 – Walnut Street Jail in operation. * 1774 * * First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry organized. * * September 5: First Continental Congress of the United Colonies begins meeting in Carpenters' Hall. * 1775 * * April 14: Pennsylvania Abolition Society founded. * * May 10: Second Continental Congress of the thirteen colonies begins. * * Samuel Powel becomes mayor. * * The United States Marine Corps founded in Tun Tavern. * 1776 * * January 10: Thomas Paine's ''Common Sense'' published. * * July 4: United States Declaration of Independence signed in the Pennsylvania State House. * 1781 – The Religious Society of Free Quakers founded. * 1783 – June 20: Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783. * 1784 * * Charles Willson Peale's Philadelphia Museum founded.〔 * * Dock Street laid out.〔 * 1785 – Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture instituted.〔 * 1786 – Philadelphia Dispensary established.〔 * 1787 * * May–September: U.S. Constitutional Convention held. * * College of Physicians〔 and Free African Society founded. * 1789 – Pennsylvania Abolition Society for the Abolition of Slavery incorporated.〔 * 1790 * * November: George Washington moves into President's House on High Street. * * December: United States capital relocates to Philadelphia from New York City. * * Philadelphia Stock Exchange founded. * * ''General Advertiser'' newspaper begins publication.〔 * * Population: 28,522.〔 * 1791 * * City Hall building constructed; U.S. Supreme Court convenes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of the Court )〕 * * University of Pennsylvania established.〔 * 1792 * * Philadelphia Medical Society incorporated.〔 * * Philadelphia Mint building constructed. * 1793 – Yellow Fever Epidemic. * 1794 * * Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Society for the Information and Assistance of Emigrants, and Byberry Library〔 established. * 1798 – Bank of the United States opens.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timeline of Philadelphia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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