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Tag: Dutch Republic

9/2/1609 English navigator Henry Hudson, hired by the Dutch Republic, explores the New York Harbor and 100 miles upstream

6/3/1621 The Dutch West India Company is founded and granted a charter by the Dutch Republic

10/1/1647 Peter Stuyvesant is Director General of New Netherland

8/27/1664 Peter Stuyvesant provisionally cedes New Netherland to the English