Penn, William

1644 - Born on October 14th in London, England. He was the founder of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

1660 - He went to Christ Church College, Oxford. He joined the Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers, and was expelled from the college and arrested several times for being a Quaker.

1677 - The Quakers, including Penn, received the colonial province of West New Jersey. They founded the town of Burlington with settlers from Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, and towns near Buckinghamshire.

1682-1684 - He pushed through his political ideas and collaborated with the local Indians.

1699 - He visited America and planned to make a federation of all English colonies in American.

1701 - Went back to England because his financial adviser, Philip Ford, cheated him and almost lost Pennsylvania through Ford's machinations.

1712 - He was unable to speak and take of himself after he suffered from a stroke.

1718 - Died in Ruscombe and was buried next to his first wife in the cemetery at Chalfont St. Giles in Buckinghamshire, England.