was crowned King of England. He was the English Monarch who lost the British Colonies. He is credited with first sowing the seeds of revolution in his American colonies, when he issued the “Proclamation Line of 1763,” a line which set aside an Indian Reserve beginning at the Appalachian Mountains and west to the Mississippi River. Colonials were not allowed to migrate into the Indian Reserve, yet the demand for western expansion was already a powerful movement in America. Devoted to his German wife Charlotte, with whom he had 15 children, George III died in 1820, blind, deaf, and quite insane.

1764 Mason-Dixon Line. After years of arguments between the Penn Family and the Calvert Family, surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon marked the Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware boundarywhich became known as the “Mason-Dixon Line.” It soon became the unofficial dividing line between the southern and northern British colonies. Along the length of the Mason-Dixon Line, stone monuments were erected every five miles, each with the engraved coat of arms of the Penn Family on the PA/DE side, the arms of the Calvert family on the MD side. For nearly one hundred years, all of the slave states south of the Mason-Dixon line became known informally as “Dixie.” But the Mason-Dixon line was not the dividing line between the Union and Confederate states in 1861, since the two slave states of Maryland and Delaware were to join the Union side, rather than the Confederate side.

1775 Delaware. The three “Lower Counties on Delaware” broke away from Pennsylvania.