1683 – William Penn brings 13 German immigrant families to the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first immigration of German people to America

(Wikipedia) - German-American Day is a holiday in the United States, observed annually on October 6. The holiday, which celebrates German heritage, commemorates the date in 1683 when 13 German families from Krefeld near the Rhine landed in Philadelphia. These families subsequently founded Germantown, Pennsylvania, the first German settlement in the original thirteen American colonies. Continued

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