| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1683/08/16 | Francis Pastorius arrives in Philadelphia with a warrant to buy land for a group of men from Frankfurt who plan to emigrate to Willam Penn's Province of Pennsylvania. The Frankfurt Company will never emigrated to the new colony. | |
| 1683/10/06 | Thirteen German-Dutch families from Krefeld in the Rhine valley make their land claims. Francis Pastorius negotiates with William Penn to combine Dutch and German land claims. | Colonial Germantown Historic District, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1760/01/01 | The Germantown Union School is opens in a new schoolhouse with belfry built of Wissahickon schist with 131 pupils, 61 in the English department and 70 in the German side. | Old Germantown Academy And Headmasters' Houses, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1855/00/00 | During the 1850s, 900,000 Germans immigrate to the United States of America. The population of the German Confederation in Europe is about 40 million. | |
| 1862/01/00 | Private August Bloedner carves a monument to his fallen comrades of the 32nd Indiana Infantry Regiment. | 32nd Indiana Monument, Frazier History Museum |
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| Cultural Affiliation: | German-American |
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