1850s

1852

• First state women's rights convention is held in West Chester.^[1]

1854

• The Fifth National Women's Rights Convention is held in Philadelphia.^[2]

1860s

1866

• The Equal Rights Association formed in Philadelphia was created to support African American and women's suffrage.^[3]

1869

• December 22: The Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association (PWSA) was formed.^[3]

1870s

1871

• Caroline Burnham Kilgore attempts to vote in Philadelphia, is denied and takes her case to court.^[4]

1872

• The Citizen's Suffrage Association is formed in Philadelphia where it affiliates with the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA).^[5]

1876

• Suffragists are denied a booth at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, but still manage to take the stage in front of an audience of 150,000 onlookers at Independence Square.^[6] Susan B. Anthony reads from A Declaration of Rights for Women.^[6]

1880s

1885

• Matilda Hindman goes to Harrisburg to lobby the state legislature to remove the word "male" as a description of a voter in the state.^[7]

1890s

1892

• The Woman Suffrage Society of Philadelphia is formed.^[5]

1900s

1901

• November 26: State women's suffrage convention is held in Philadelphia.^[8]

1902

• November 7: State women's suffrage convention is held in Philadelphia.^[9]
• December 5: The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends creates an Equal Rights Association.^[10]

1903

• November 7: State women's suffrage convention is held in Philadelphia.^[10]

1904

• The Allegheny County Equal Rights Association (ACERA) is created.^[11]
• November 3–5: The state suffrage convention is held in Easton.^[10]

1905

• November 14: The state suffrage convention takes place in Philadelphia.^[10]

1906

• November 6–8: The State suffrage convention is held in Kennett Square.^[10]

1907

• November 6–8: ACERA hosts the PWSA convention in Pittsburgh.^[12][10]

1908

• November 4–6: The state suffrage convention is held in Norristown.^[13]

1909

• November 22–24: The state suffrage convention is held in Newton, Pennsylvania.^[14]

1910s

1910

• Headquarters for PWSA is formed in Philadelphia.^[15]
• The new Equal Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania replaces ACERA.^[11]
• The state suffrage convention is held in Harrisburg.^[14]
• The Pennsylvania Federation of Labor pledged to support women's suffrage.^[14]

1911

• March 14: Women's suffrage amendment hearing takes place in the state legislature, and the amendment is referred to a commission.^[15]
• September 30: Alice Paul's open-air suffrage campaign has its last stop in Independence Square in Philadelphia.^[16]
• Suffragists set up headquarters in Pittsburgh and create the "Pittsburgh Plan."^[17]

1912

• March: Pennsylvania chapter of the Men's League for Woman Suffrage is formed.^[14]
• March 12: The Electoral Commission rules that women's suffrage is not "germane to its task."^[18]
• March 22: The state women's suffrage commission reports during a hearing at the state legislature.^[19]
• March 29: Anti-suffragist, Minnie Bronson, speaks at the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Music.^[20]
• November 21: A second open-air rally is held in Independence Square in Philadelphia.^[16]
• November 26–27: State suffrage convention is held in Philadelphia. It is suggested that suffrage headquarters are moved.^[14]
• December: State suffrage headquarters are moved to Harrisburg.^[14]

1913

• January: Women's suffrage resolution is introduced in the state legislature, and passes narrowly. It will have to pass a second time to go to a voter referendum.^[21]
• First women's suffrage parade in the state takes place in Perry.^[6]
• July 8: A women's suffrage parade is held in Erie.^[22][23]
• August: Woman's suffrage day at the Granger's picnic in Williams Grove.^[24]
• October 28–30: PWSA meets in Pittsburgh, where money for the upcoming campaign is pledged, including a $10,000 pledge from philanthropist, Elizabeth Dohrman Thaw.^[25][26]

1914

• August: Suffragists and anti-suffragists campaign at the Lebanon County fair.^[27]
• The first anti-suffrage convention in the United States takes place in Harrisburg.^[28]
• Suffrage School is held in Pittsburgh.^[28]
• November 19–24: State suffrage convention is held in Scranton.^[26]

1915

• March 31: The Justice Bell is forged at the Meneely Bell Foundry.^[29]
• June 23: Suffragists take the Justice Bell on a tour of the state starting in Sayre.^[29][30]
• October: Suffragists show scores for the World Series at the Pittsburgh headquarters and hand out suffrage literature to the crowds that come to see the scores.^[28]
• November 2: The women's suffrage amendment is defeated at the polls.^[31]
• November 30: The state suffrage convention is held in Philadelphia.^[32]

1916

• Carrie Chapman Catt addresses a convention held in Harrisburg.^[32]
• July 7: The Pennsylvania Suffrage Flag is dedicated.^[33][34]
• November 21–24: The state suffrage convention is held in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.^[32]

1919

• June 24: Pennsylvania ratifies the 19th Amendment.^[35]
• November: PWSA dissolves and the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania is formed.^[36]

1920s

1920

• September 25: The Justice Bell is finally rung at a celebration of women winning the right to vote where Katharine Wentworth is the first to ring the bell.^[29]
• November 2: Pennsylvania women vote for the first time.^[33]
• November 18: PWSA dissolves and reforms as the League of Women Voters (LWV) of Pennsylvania.^[37]