TABLE of EVENTS
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Year
1609.
Hudson discovers the island of Manhattan
1613.
Ship Tiger burned
1614.
United New Netherland Company organized
1614.
Fort Manhattan built
1621.
West India Company organized
1626.
Peter Minuit Governor
Fort Amsterdam built
1629.
Charter adopted under which the Manors were established
1633.
Van Twillier Governor
1636.
Annetje Jans' Farm laid out
1638.
William Kieft appointed Governor
1641.
First Cattle Fair held on Bowling Green
1642.
Stadt Huys built
Church built in the Fort
1643.
Beginning of the Indian wars
1644.
Fence erected, which was later replaced by a wall, and still later by Wall Street
1646.
Peter Stuyvesant appointed Governor
1647.
Kieft and Dominie Bogardus drowned in the wreck of the Princess while returning to Holland
1652.
City of New Amsterdam incorporated
1653.
New Amsterdam made a walled city by the building of a wall across the island
1655.
Stuyvesant subdues the Swedes on the Delaware
Indian war breaks out again
1664.
English capture New Amsterdam and it becomes New York
Richard Nicolls Governor
1667.
Francis Lovelace appointed Governor
1670.
Lovelace establishes the first Exchange
1673.
First mail route established
The Dutch retake New York
1674.
English again in possession of New York
Sir Edmund Andros Governor
Captain Manning disgraced for surrendering New York to the Dutch
1678.
Bolting Act created
1681.
Andros recalled
1682.
Thomas Dongan Governor
1686.
Dongan Charter granted to the city
1688.
New York and New England united, and Sir Edmund Andros Governor
1689.
William III. becomes King of England
Jacob Leisler assumes title of Lieutenant-Governor and takes charge of New York
1691.
Henry Sloughter Governor
Leisler and Milborne executed
Governor Sloughter dies
1692.
Benjamin Fletcher Governor
1693.
Bradford establishes first printing press in the colony
1696.
Trinity Church built
Bolting Act repealed
Lord Bellomont appointed Governor
Captain Kidd sails to search for pirates
1697.
Streets first lighted at night
1699.
City wall demolished and Wall Street laid out
City Hall built in Wall Street
1700.
First library opened
1701.
Captain Kidd executed in England
Lord Bellomont dies
1702.
Lord Cornbury Governor
1705.
Queen's Farm granted to Trinity Church by Queen Anne
1708.
Lord Lovelace Governor
1710.
Robert Hunter Governor
1711.
Public slave market established
1714.
First public clock set on City Hall in Wall Street
1715.
Lewis Morris appointed Chief-Justice
1720.
William Burnet Governor
1725.
Bradford prints first newspaper in city
1728.
John Montgomery Governor
1729.
First Jewish cemetery established
1731.
First Fire Department organized
Montgomery dies
1732.
William Cosby Governor
1733.
James De Lancey made Chief-Justice
1735.
Peter Zenger tried for libel
1736.
Governor Cosby dies
1741.
Negro Plot
1743.
George Clinton Governor
1745.
Louisburg captured
1752.
Walton House built
1753.
Sir Danvers Osborne Governor
1755.
Sir Charles Hardy Governor
1756.
Corner-stone of King's College laid
Lord Loudoun appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in America
1759.
General Jeffrey Amherst appointed Commander-in-Chief in place of Lord Loudoun
1760.
Montreal captured
Lieutenant-Governor De Lancey dies
George II. of England dies
George III. becomes King
1761.
Robert Monckton Governor
1763.
Monckton resigns as Governor
1765.
Stamp Act passed
First Colonial Congress held in New York
Sir Henry Moore Governor
1766.
Stamp Act repealed
Liberty Pole set up on the Common
1770.
Statues of William Pitt and George III. erected
Tax removed on all articles except tea
Battle of Golden Hill
1771.
Sir William Tryon Governor
1773.
Tax on tea reduced
1774.
Taxed Tea dumped into the river
First Continental Congress held
1775.
Lexington massacre
Second Continental Congress
Turtle Bay stores seized
Marinus Willett seizes the British ammunition wagons
Battle of Bunker Hill
Governor Tryon returns from England
General Montgomery killed at Quebec
1776.
April.--General Washington comes to New York after the success of the Continental army at Boston
July.--Independence declared
August.--Battle of Long Island
1776.
September.--British occupy New York Battle of Harlem Heights A Great Fire Nathan Hale executed
November.--Fort Washington captured
1777.
George Clinton, Governor of New York State
Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga
Washington at Valley Forge
1780.
Benedict Arnold's treason
1781.
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
1783.
September.--Treaty of Peace, between Great Britain and the United States, signed
November.--British troops depart from New York
December.--Washington bids farewell to his officers at Fraunces's Tavern
1788.
The Doctors' Mob
1789.
New York the seat of the National Government
Washington becomes First President of the United States and comes to live in New York
The Government House built
Tammany Society organized
1790.
Trinity Church rebuilt
1798.
Small-pox epidemic
Manhattan Company established
1803.
New City Hall begun
1804.
Alexander Hamilton killed by Aaron Burr
1805.
Free School Society organized
1807.
The Clermont launched
1811.
City Plan completed
1812.
United States at war with Great Britain
1814.
Fort Clinton (afterward called Castle Garden) built
War with Great Britain ended
1823.
Yellow fever epidemic
1824.
General Lafayette comes again to America
1825.
Erie Canal celebration
Gas introduced into city
1833.
First penny newspaper started
1835.
The "Great Fire" destroys six hundred houses
Work commenced on the Croton Aqueduct
1842.
Water admitted through the Croton Aqueduct
1845.
First telegraph recording apparatus publicly tested by Samuel F.B. Morse
1849.
Forrest-Macready riots
1853.
World's Fair in the Crystal Palace
1856.
Ground bought by the city for the Central Park
1863.
The Draft Riot
1870.
Brooklyn Bridge started
1878.
Elevated roads built
1883.
Brooklyn Bridge completed
1898.
The island of Manhattan becomes the Borough of Manhattan of Greater New York