The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania issues the charter…

March 1859 CE

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania issues the charter establishing the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, the first organization of its kind in the United States, and founder of the nation's first zoo, on March 21, 1859.

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