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Tag: Manhattan – New York / New Amsterdam / Fort Amsterdam / Manna-hata

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

12/23/1613 Crewman Juan Rodriguez operates a trading post for Hendrick Christiaensen in Mannahattan

3/20/1613 Dutch Trader Thijs Volckenz Mossel voyages to the North River area

9/22/1613 Adriean Block and Hendrick Christeansen voyage to the North River area

1/1/1614 Adriean Block explores the Long Island Sound

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

5/1/1624 Dutch colonists arrive in New York Harbor

1/1/1625 The Dutch West India Company relocate colonists to Manhattan

5/26/1626 Director Peter Minuit negotiates the purchase of Manhattan

3/1/1638 Anneke Jans remarries with Domine Everardus Bogardus

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

8/15/1648 Anneke Jans moves her family from Fort Amsterdam to Fort Orange

1/1/1654 Director Stuyvesent issues a patent to Anneke Jans for land in New Amsterdam

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

6/1/1665 New Amsterdam is reincorporated under English law as New York City

3/8/1855 William Poole aka Bill the Butcher dies

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