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In 1617, officials of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland created a settlement at present-day Albany, and in 1624 founded New Amsterdam, on Manhattan Island.The Dutch colony included claims to an area comprising all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine in addition to eastern ...
The Province of New York thrived during this time, its economy strengthened by Long Island and Hudson Valley agriculture, in conjunction with trade and artisanal activity at the Port of New York; the colony was a breadbasket and lumberyard for the British sugar colonies in the Caribbean. New York's population grew substantially during this ...
Crown Colony of New Hampshire: 10 Virginia: June 25, 1788 [8] (ratified) Crown Colony and Dominion of Virginia: 11 New York: July 26, 1788 [13] (ratified) Crown Colony of New York: 12 North Carolina: November 21, 1789 [14] (ratified) Crown Colony of North Carolina: 13 Rhode Island: May 29, 1790 [8] (ratified) Crown Colony of Rhode Island and ...
New York Yacht Club founded. 1845 Bowery Theatre opens. New York City Police Department, and New York Art Union [21] established. Fire. [38] 1846 – Stewart Dry Goods Store built. [34] 1847 Free Academy of the City of New York founded (later City College of New York). [21] [7] Madison Square Park and Astor Opera House open. Grace Church built.
New York City attracted a large polyglot population, including a large black slave population. [60] New Jersey began as a division of New York, and was divided into the proprietary colonies of East and West Jersey for a time. [61] Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 as a proprietary colony of Quaker William Penn.
New York City attracted a large polyglot population, including a large black slave population. [19] In 1674, the proprietary colonies of East Jersey and West Jersey were created from lands formerly part of New York. [20] Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 as a proprietary colony of Quaker William Penn.
The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer, the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1528. European settlement began with the Dutch in 1608 and New Amsterdam was founded in 1624.
1559 - Tristan de Luna founded the first short-lived settlement Pensacola, Florida. 1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founds St. Augustine, Florida. [1] 1579 – Francis Drake claims New Albion for England. 1585 – The Roanoke Colony is founded. [1] 1588 – England and its Dutch allies defeat the Spanish Armada.