- 1655
- Dutch ship wrecked within the mouth of the Brandywine River, laden with brandy or “brandewijn.”
- 1684
- Birmingham Township settled and incorporated. Chichester Meeting founded.
- 1686
- Concord Meeting established.
- 1690
- Birmingham Meeting founded.
- 1670
- Andrew Braindwine received a grant of land near the mouth of the Brandywine River.
- 1704
- William Brinton 1704 House built.
- 1710
- Elizabeth Richardson, second daughter of Isaac and Catharine Richardson of Whiteland Township, is born on September 19th.
- 1713
- Francis Chadsey dies 1713 or 1714.
- 1714
- Barns-Brinton House built.
- 1725
- John Chads House built.
- 1729
- On August 2nd, John Chads married Elizabeth Richardson at Goshen Monthly Meeting.
- 1750
- Most Lenapes have been pushed west to the Susquehanna River Valley and Ohio.
- 1755
- Lenape Indians become known as the Delawares.
- 1760
- John Chads dies.
- 1763
- Birmingham Meeting builds stone building to replace the wooden one.
- 1765
- Ohio and Pennsylvania Delawares sign a peace treaty with the English.
- 1777
- Battle of Brandywine
- 1789
- Southeastern townships of Chester County were organized as Delaware County.
- 1790
- Elizabeth Chads, widow of John Chads, dies.
- 1799
- Westtown School founded.
- 1802
- Indian Hannah, last of the Lenape Indians in Chester County, dies.
- 1819
- Octagonal schoolhouse built across the road from the Birmingham Meetinghouse.
- 1898
- Howard Pyle starts a summer art school in the old Turner grist mill, just across the road from the house owned by Benjamin Ring and used by Washington as his headquarters during the Battle of Brandywine.
- 1902
- Newell Convers Wyeth comes to Chadds Ford to attend Pyle’s summer art school and decided to reside there permanently.
- 1958
- First Chadds Ford Days held to commemorate the Battle of Brandywine.
- 1960
- Birmingham Township experiences enormous population growth throughout the 1960’s.
- 1967
- Brandywine Conservancy formed.
- 1968
- Chadds Ford Historical Society formed to save the crumbling John Chads House. Brandywine River Museum opens in former Hoffman Mill along the Brandywine River.
- 1996
- Residents in Birmingham Township, Delaware County, vote to change their township name to Chadds Ford Township.
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