{"slug": "william-penn", "label": "William Penn", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209152", "qid": "Q209152", "description": "English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)", "entries": 20, "years": 13, "span": [1644, 1984], "span_label": ["1644 CE", "1984 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Springett Penn (I)"], "related": [{"slug": "pennsylvania", "label": "Pennsylvania", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "quakers", "label": "Quakers", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "philadelphia", "label": "Philadelphia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "province-of-pennsylvania", "label": "Province of Pennsylvania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "province-of-maryland", "label": "Province of Maryland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tower-of-london", "label": "Tower of London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "trinity", "label": "Trinity", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charles-ii-of-england", "label": "Charles II of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cork-city", "label": "Cork (city)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1644, "year_label": "1644 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "October 14", "text": "October 14 – William Penn, English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560996#October–December", "title": "1644", "revid": 1369560996, "section": "Births › October–December"}}, {"year": 1644, "year_label": "1644 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "October 14", "text": "14 October – William Penn, Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania (died 1718)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737189#Births", "title": "1644 in England", "revid": 1353737189, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1666, "year_label": "1666 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February", "text": "February – William Penn moves from London to Ireland to manage his father's estates. In May, he is involved in suppressing a mutiny in the English garrison at Carrickfergus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247387450#Events", "title": "1666 in Ireland", "revid": 1247387450, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1667, "year_label": "1667 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "William Penn attends meetings of the Quakers in Cork, marking his conversion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247387459#Events", "title": "1667 in Ireland", "revid": 1247387459, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1668, "year_label": "1668 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December", "text": "December – William Penn imprisoned for nearly 8 months in the Tower of London for writing a pamphlet attacking Trinitarian doctrine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737382#Events", "title": "1668 in England", "revid": 1353737382, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1669, "year_label": "1669 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May", "text": "May–August – George Fox, founder of the Quakers, visits Ireland. William Penn also returns to Ireland this year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247387478#Events", "title": "1669 in Ireland", "revid": 1247387478, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1670, "year_label": "1670 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "February", "text": "February–April – William Penn visits the Quaker William Morris at Castle Salem, Cork.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351866811#Events", "title": "1670 in Ireland", "revid": 1351866811, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1670, "year_label": "1670 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 14", "text": "14 August – Quakers William Penn and William Mead preach in Gracechurch Street in the City of London, in defiance of the new Conventicles Act, and are arrested and tried but on 5 September the jury refuses to convict.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737399#Events", "title": "1670 in England", "revid": 1353737399, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1670, "year_label": "1670 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 5", "text": "September 5 – William Penn and William Mead are found not guilty of violating the Conventicles Act 1670, after a five day jury trial in London. The two had been arrested on August 14 in front of a meeting house Gracechurch Street after preaching a Quaker sermon outside following a ban on preaching indoors. The defiance by the jury leads to the landmark English decision in Bushel's Case.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368809725#July–September", "title": "1670", "revid": 1368809725, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1681, "year_label": "1681 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 4", "text": "March 4 – In order to settle a debt of £16,000, King Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn, for territory west of Delaware River in America between 40° N and 42° N, later to be called Pennsylvania.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361310073#January–March", "title": "1681", "revid": 1361310073, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1681, "year_label": "1681 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 4", "text": "4 March – William Penn receives a royal charter to establish a sectarian colony in the Americas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737545#Events", "title": "1681 in England", "revid": 1353737545, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1682, "year_label": "1682 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "October 27", "text": "October 27 – The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded by William Penn.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560956#October–December", "title": "1682", "revid": 1369560956, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1682, "year_label": "1682 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 11", "text": "December 11 – William Penn meets with Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore for the first discussion of the boundary between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland, fixed at 40 degrees north. Recognizing that 40° north would remove Pennsylvania's access to the sea, Penn proposes a purchase of some of Maryland's territory.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560956#October–December", "title": "1682", "revid": 1369560956, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1693, "year_label": "1693 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "William Penn publishes his proposal for European federation, Essay on the Present and Future Peace of Europe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343170745#Date_unknown", "title": "1693", "revid": 1343170745, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1696, "year_label": "1696 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "William Penn offers an elaborate plan for intercolonial cooperation largely in trade, defense, and criminal matters.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361123555#Date_unknown", "title": "1696", "revid": 1361123555, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1696, "year_label": "1696 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 10", "text": "April 10 – Springett Penn, Member of the Penn family (b. 1674)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361123555#April–June", "title": "1696", "revid": 1361123555, "section": "Deaths › April–June"}}, {"year": 1718, "year_label": "1718 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 30", "text": "July 30 – William Penn, American settler, founder of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350255401#Deaths", "title": "1718", "revid": 1350255401, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1718, "year_label": "1718 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 30", "text": "30 July – William Penn, Quaker and founder of the Pennsylvania colony (born 1644)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360128937#Deaths", "title": "1718 in Great Britain", "revid": 1360128937, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1732, "year_label": "1732 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 10", "text": "May 10 – Representatives of the heirs of William Penn and of Lord Baltimore, the respective owners of most of the land in the Province of Pennsylvania and the Province of Maryland set out the boundary between the two future U.S. states after a survey determines that Philadelphia is located on the Maryland side of the border. The dispute eventually leads to a lawsuit and the eventual survey by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to determine the Mason–Dixon line.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369314491#April–June", "title": "1732", "revid": 1369314491, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1984, "year_label": "1984 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "November 28", "text": "November 28 – Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371242779#November", "title": "1984", "revid": 1371242779, "section": "Events › November"}}]}