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The English had renamed the colony the Province of New York, after the king's brother James, Duke of York and on June 12, 1665, appointed Thomas Willett the first of the Mayors of New York. The city grew northward and remained the largest and most important city in the Province of New York, becoming the third largest in the British Empire after ...
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 ...
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 ...
Long before the U.S. declared its independence on July 4, 1776, many European explorers had already founded lasting settlements. These are 10 of the oldest inhabited cities in the U.S. that you ...
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.
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.
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 ...
On March 22, 1622, Powhatan fighters killed 347 English colonists in Virginia. Instead, the survivors, supported by reinforcements and new weapons from England, launched a deadly series of reprisals.