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1/1/1603 Roeloff Jansen is born

1/1/1611 Dutch trader Cornelis Rijser voyages to the North River area

9/22/1612 Adriaen Block voyages to the North River area

1/1/1630 Roeloff Jansen and Anneke Jans emigrate to New Netherland

1/1/1636 Wouter van Twiller grants land in New Amsterdam to Roeloff Jansen and his wife Anneke Jans

1/1/1643 Kieft War begins

12/31/1645 Kieft War ends

9/27/1647 Director General Willem Kieft and Domine Everardus Bogardus die in a shipwreck

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

1/1/1699 The British seize the Hempstead area from the Dutch

5/1/1916 The Dutch expedition ship Tyger is partially excavated by subway construction crews