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.