array('Charles II', '1662', 'Charles II grants the Colony of Connecticut lands westward to the frontier between the 41st and 42nd parallels                                                                  '), 1 => array('William Penn', '1681', 'Charles II grants the Province of Pennsylvania to William Penn and his heirs                                                                                                                                                                    '), 2 => array('Wyoming Valley', '1700s', 'Wyoming Valley is occupied by Nanticokes, Shawaneses, and Delaware Indians                                                                                        '), 3 => array('Count Zinzendorf', '1742', 'Count Zinzendorf visits Wyoming Valley'), 4 => array('Stories from the west', '1750', 'Stories of a western paradise come to Connecticut                                                                                                                                    '), 5 => array('Sesquehannah Company', '1753', 'Sesquehannah Company of Connecticut organized for purposes of settling the Wyoming lands'), 6 => array('Complaints', '1754', 'Governor of Pennsylvania complains to the Governor of Connecticut'), 7 => array('Indian Council', '1754', 'Indian Council met at Albany - Sesquehannah Company purchases Wyoming from the Iroquois'), 8 => array('French and Indian War', '1762', 'After the French and Indian War – 200 men clear land and settle near Mill Creek in North Wilkes-Barre and return to Connecticut'), 9 => array('Indian Attack', '1763', 'Connecticut people return for the summer and harvest but are attacked by Indians October 15, 1763'), 10 => array('Pennsylvania Purchases', '1768', 'Pennsylvania purchases Wyoming lands from the Iroquois'), 11 => array('Thomas Penn', '1768', 'Manor of Stokes (east side) Manor of Sunbury (west side) surveyed for Governor Thomas Penn'), 12 => array('Odabiah Gore', '1768', 'Obadiah Gore, first to use anthracite in a forge   '), 13 => array('Town Plots', '1769', 'Settlement of the Town Plots and Township of Wilkes-Barre, Kingston, Hanover, Pittston, and Plymouth by Captain John Durkee – 40 in February – 200 in the spring'), 14 => array('Fort Durkee', '1769', 'Fort Durkee is built by Connecticut people'), 15 => array('Fort Wyoming', '1771', 'Fort Wyoming is built by Pennsylvania people'), 16 => array('Northumberland County', '1772', 'Establishment of Northumberland County by Pennsylvania (carved out of Northampton County)'), 17 => array('WestMoreland County', '1776', 'Establishment of Westmoreland County by Connecticut'), 18 => array('Burning of Wilkes-Barre', '1778', 'Battle and Massacre of Wyoming and the burning of Wilkes-Barre'), 19 => array('Frances Slocum Abducted', '1778', 'Frances Slocum abducted by Indians – found in 1837 – 59 years later'), 20 => array('General Sullivan', '1779', 'General Sullivan expedition against the Iroquois staged from River Common - 3,500 men, 1,200 horses and 214 boats follow the Susquehanna up to New York'), 21 => array('Decree of Trenton', '1782', 'Decree of Trenton declares that Wilkes-Barre the Wyoming region is under the political jurisdiction of Pennsylvania and not Connecticut '), 22 => array('Luzerne County', '1786', 'Establishment of Luzerne County by Pennsylvania – Timothy Pickering moves to Wilkes-Barre'), 23 => array('Matthias Hollenback', '1793', 'Matthias Hollenback buys 1,200 acres for Robert Morris and Louis XVI – land in now Bradford County'), 24 => array('Lord Butler', '1793', 'Lord Butler builds a house including parts of his father Zebulon Butler’s 1773 log cabin – the house still exists '), 25 => array('French King', '1795', 'Matthias Hollenback, Lord Butler, Arnold Colt entertain the Duke of Orleans, the future French King, Louis Philippe '), 26 => array('George Catlin', '1796', 'George Catlin, the great American painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans is born in house just off Public Square'), 27 => array('Wilkes-Barre INC', '1806', 'Wilkes-Barre incorporated; Jesse Fell elected Burgess (Mayor) – Lord Butler elected president of town council'), 28 => array('Jesse Fell', '1808', 'Jesse Fell of Wilkes-Barre successfully burns anthracite in an open grate as a home heating fuel'), 29 => array('Abijah Smith', '1807', 'Abijah Smith of Plymouth sends first shipment of anthracite down the Susquehanna River'), 30 => array('First Church', '1807', 'First church in Northeastern Pennsylvania, the Forty Fort Meeting House is built'), 31 => array('Meeting House Opens', '1812', 'First church in Wilkes-Barre, the Wilkes-Barre Meeting House on Public Square opens'), 32 => array('Turnpike Begins', '1815', 'Construction of the Easton/Wilkes-Barre Turnpike – present day State Route 115'), 33 => array('Market Street Bridge', '1816', 'Construction of the first Market Street Bridge begins – opens in 1819'), 34 => array('Canal Boats', '1834', 'First canal boat links Pittston to Wilkes-Barre'), 35 => array('First Catholic Church', '1842', 'First Roman Catholic Church, St. Mary’s, is built'), 36 => array('First Passenger Railroad', '1843', 'First passenger railroad reaches Wilkes-Barre '), 37 => array('Wyoming Seminary Opens', '1844', 'Wyoming Seminary, one of the nations first co-ed school opens'), 38 => array('First Synagogue', '1845', 'First Jewish synagogue in Wilkes-Barre, B’nai B’rith, opens'), 39 => array('Catlin In Louve', '1845', 'George Catlin of Wilkes-Barre becomes first American artist to exhibit at the Louvre in Paris by royal invitation of King Louis Philippe'), 40 => array('First Welsh Church', '1864', 'First Welsh Church is built in the Heights section of Wilkes-Barre'), 41 => array('Emily Post', '1874', 'Emily Post, the famous etiquette writer, spends a few years in Wilkes-Barre as her architect father, Bruce Price, designs several mansions and the Methodist Church downtown.  Her parents are buried in Hollenback Cemetery'), 42 => array('Henry Hoyt', '1878', 'Henry M. Hoyt of Kingston elected Governor of Pennsylvania'), 43 => array('Last Canal Boat', '1881', 'Last canal boat passed through Wilkes-Barre'), 44 => array('Electric Car Line', '1888', 'First electric street car line opens, Wilkes-Barre to Plains'), 45 => array('Greek Catholic Union', '1892', 'Greek Catholic Union is founded by Carpatho-Rusyins or Byzantines'), 46 => array('Lyman Howe', '1901', 'Lyman Howe of Wilkes-Barre films newsreels and travelogues making his film an industry first'), 47 => array('Coal Strike', '1902', 'Great Anthracite Coal Strike'), 48 => array('Wireless Test', '1905', 'Father Joseph Murgas conducts successful wireless test'), 49 => array('Mary Trescott', '1906', 'Mary Trescott of Wilkes-Barre becomes second female attorney admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court'), 50 => array('Planters Nuts', '1908', 'Planters Nut and Chocolate Co. founded in Wilkes-Barre'), 51 => array('Penn State WB', '1916', 'Penn State opens Wilkes-Barre campus'), 52 => array('Misericordia', '1924', 'Misericordia University founded'), 53 => array('Babe Ruth', '1926', 'Babe Ruth hits longest homerun at Wilkes-Barre’s Artillery Park'), 54 => array('Ham Fisher', '1928', 'Ham Fisher launches comic strip “Joe Palooka”'), 55 => array('Wilkes U Founded', '1933', 'Wilkes University founded as Bucknell Junior College'), 56 => array('Penn State Hazleton', '1934', 'Penn State opens Hazleton campus'), 57 => array('Arthur H James', '1938', 'Arthur H. James of Plymouth elected Governor of Pennsylvania'), 58 => array('Herman Mankiewicz', '1941', 'Wilkes-Barre’s Herman Mankiewicz wins Oscar for Citizen Kane'), 59 => array('Kings College', '1946', 'King’s College founded'), 60 => array('John S Fine', '1950', 'John S. Fine of Nanticoke elected Governor of Pennsylvania'), 61 => array('WBRE', '1953', 'WBRE become first television station'), 62 => array('Edgar Patience', '1964', 'Artist C. Edgar Patience presents Lady Bird Johnson with sculpted coal clock and bookends, later displayed at the White House'), 63 => array('School Consolidation', '1964', 'Luzerne County School Districts Consolidation plan begins - dropping from 60 to 10 districts'), 64 => array('LCCC Founded', '1967', 'Luzerne County Community College founded'), 65 => array('Agnes flood', '1972', 'Hurricane Agnes floods Wilkes-Barre and the Wyoming Valley and becomes the costliest natural disaster in the United States at that time'), 66 => array('City Slickers', '1991', 'Hazleton’s Jack Palance wins Oscar for City Slickers'), 67 => array('Arena Opening', '1999', 'Grand opening of The Arena, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League made their debut  '), 68 => array('River Commons Opens', '2009', 'Restored River Common opens'), ); ?>