Editing History of Pittsburgh (section)

==Jurisdiction timeline==
*Possibly as early as 17,000 [[Common Era|BCE]], and until approximately 1750 CE, the area was home to numerous Native American groups, including the [[Lenape]] and [[Seneca people|Seneca]] tribes.
*1669 Claimed for the French Empire by [[René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle]].
*1681 King Charles claims the forks for Pennsylvania with 5 degrees west of the Delaware.
*1694 [[Arnout Viele]] a Dutch trader explores the area.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bchistory.org/beavercounty/BeaverCountyTopical/Timelines/EarlyBCChronology.html |title=Early Beaver County Chronology--1600s-1800 |access-date=February 10, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130414154507/http://www.bchistory.org/beavercounty/BeaverCountyTopical/Timelines/EarlyBCChronology.html |archive-date=April 14, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
*1717 Settled by European traders, primarily Pennsylvanians; dispute occurs between Virginia and Pennsylvania.
*1727 Joncaire visits with a small French force.
*1748 Both Pennsylvanian Conrad Weiser visits and the Kingd approves the [[Ohio Company]] for Virginia.
*1749 Frenchman Louis Blainville deCeleron sails by on the Allegheny and Ohio burying lead plates claiming the area for France.
*1750 Cumberland County Pennsylvania founded, though its jurisdiction is not governable.
*1753 [[George Washington]] visits en route to Fort LeBeouf.
*1754 French Forces occupy the area and construct Fort Duquesne.
*1757 Jesuit Father Claude Francis Virot founded Catholic Mission at Beaver.
*1758 British Forces regain the area and establish Fort Pitt though some dispute over claims between the colonies of Pennsylvania (Cumberland County) and Virginia (Augusta County).
*1761 [[Ayr Township, Pennsylvania|Ayr Township]], [[Cumberland County, Pennsylvania]].
*1763 The [[Province of Quebec (1763–1791)|Proclamation of 1763]] grants Quebec rights to all lands west of the Alleghenies and North of the Ohio River.
*1767 [[Bedford Township, Pennsylvania|Bedford Township]], Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.<ref name="Old Bedford County Townships">{{cite web |url=http://www.pagenweb.org/~somerset/bedford.htm |title=Old Bedford County Townships |access-date=February 10, 2014 |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924063249/http://www.pagenweb.org/~somerset/bedford.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*1770 [[George Washington]] visits for Virginia.
*1771 (March 9) [[Bedford County, Pennsylvania]].<ref name="Old Bedford County Townships"/>
*1771 (April 16) Pitt Township founded.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.co.greene.pa.us/secured/gc2/history/Struggle-for-Possession.pdf |title=A Brief History of Greene County and Its Courts |access-date=February 10, 2014}}</ref>
*1773 (February 26) part of [[Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania]].
*1788 (September 24) part of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
*1788 (December 16) A new [[Pitt Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|Pitt Township]] is formed as a division of Allegheny County.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|volume=2|publisher=A. Warner & Co.|location=Chicago|date=1889|page=115|url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofalleghe1889cush#page/115/mode/2up/ }}</ref>
*1792 (June) Petition for a Pittsburgh Township at the forks.
*1792 (September 6) Pittsburgh Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
*1794 (April 22) Pittsburgh borough, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/apology3.html |title=How to Spell Pittsburgh |access-date=February 10, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221075636/http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/apology3.html |archive-date=February 21, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
*1816 (March 18) City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.