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Jan 1, 1524
1524
Explorer Giovanni de Varrazzano commissioned by the king of france, sailed to the new world, and into what is now the new york harbor, probably accompained by jaques cartier -
1624
Dutch settlers founded the colony of New Netherland. -
swedes
Settled by swedes -
diversity
many different kinds of people settled in new netherlands -
1655
Peter suyvesant wanted to add more land to new netherlands and attacked the charter colony of new sweden -
proprietary colony
Became a proprietary colony and then became new york -
conquored new netherlands
the british army conquered the colony of New Netherland, Which was then re-named new york in honor of the duke of york -
the duke brought ships
The duke brought ships to new amersterdam and the colony surrendered -
french and indian war
french and indian war -
Colonial congress
New york hosted the first colonial congress a conference called to discuss the king of englands stamp act -
revolutionary war
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independence
new york delarced its independence -
stock exchange
new york stock exchange was founded in new york city\ -
albany
albany became new yorks capital -
salvery
new york outlawed slavery -
8th president
martin van burn became the eighth president of the untied states -
womens right convention
elizabeth cady stanton created the first womes right convention -
millard fillmore
millard fillmore became the 13th president of the untied states -
capital
the state capital at albany was created -
skyscraper
new yorks first skyscraper was completed -
first subway
new yorks first subway opened -
32nd president
franklin d. rosevelt became the 32nd president -
world trade center
the world trade center was completed. both measured in 1368 ft -
new york mets
new york mets won the world series -
new york mets
new york mets won the world series again -
9-11
terrorist attack destoyed the world trade center and killed about 3000 people. -
same sex marriage
6th state in america to legalize same sex marriage -
9-11 monument opened
9-11 monument opened in honor of 9-11 -
captial
new york became the first capital of the untied states.
