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The stable is a two-story brick building connected to the station house by a one-story brick passage. It ceased being used as a police station in 1970, [3] and was bought by the Sunset Park School of Music. [2] [4] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, [1] and was designated a New York City landmark in ...
'A Map of the Myriad Countries of the World'; Italian: Carta Geografica Completa di tutti i Regni del Mondo, "Complete Geographical Map of all the Kingdoms of the World"), printed by Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci at the request by Wanli Emperor in 1602, is the first known European-styled Chinese world map (and the first Chinese map to ...
1492 – Christopher Columbus' first voyage. [1] 1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas divides the New World between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Portugal. 1496 – Santo Domingo, the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, is settled. 1497 – First voyage of John Cabot, searching for the Northwest Passage. [1]
The Spanish government made a land grant to Louis St. Germain in 1776. Joseph Chretien bought the property in 1781 and his grandson, Hipolyte Chretien II, inherited the land from his father. The plantation was a 3000-acre cotton farm worked by the forced labor of over 500 enslaved people. Hippolyte Chretien started construction on the mansion ...
1492: Columbus reaches the Bahamas, [5] Cuba and Hispaniola. 1492: La Navidad is established on the island of Hispaniola; it was destroyed by the following year. 1493: The colony of La Isabela is established on the island of Hispaniola. [6] 1493: Columbus arrives in Puerto Rico; 1494: Columbus arrives in Jamaica.
The cemetery was established as Sunset Cemetery in 1905, but had been used for burials since the 1880s. In 1926, the name was officially changed to Westwood Memorial Park and was later renamed to Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary.
1565: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés establishes the city of St. Augustine. 1565 September 20: Spanish attack Fort Caroline and kill most of the French, some escape. 1571 December: Pedro Menéndez wrecks at Cape Canaveral and meets hostile natives thought to be of the Ais Indian Nation. 1586 June: Sir Francis Drake attacks and sacks St. Augustine.
1892 Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch dedicated to the memory of the veterans and the casualties from the Civil War of which the people and resources of Brooklyn, played a large part. Renaissance Apartments, at Hancock Street and Nostrand Avenue in the Bedford-Stuyvesant community constructed. [75]