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Oct 9, 1524
Sailing for France, Giovanni daVerrazano possibly explored New Jersey’s shores
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Henry Hudson on Half Moon sailed up river that will bear his name
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Dutch West India Company chartered.
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Peter Stuyvesant became Director General of New Netherland
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Dutch under Peter Stuyvesant forced Swedes to give up forts in South Jersey
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Duke of York gave landto his freinds, George Carteret and Lord John Berkley
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First Assembly meeting held in Elizabethtown
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Third New Jersey Regiment, known as the "Jersey Blues," started at Piscataway
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Edward Byllynge and John Fenwick, Quakers, bought West Jersey from Lord Berkeley
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George Carteret died
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Period: to
2,581 to over 4 thousand slaves
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The College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University) was chartered
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New Jersey state seal is approved at the Indian King Tavern in Haddonfield
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John Fitch demonstrated the first steamboat on the Delaware River; he received patent in 1791
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New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights
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Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery
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Joseph Dixon Crucible Company founded in Jersey City
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The Morris Canal is opened
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The Delaware and Raritan Canal completed
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The first locomotive in state built in Paterson
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Cranberries first cultivated in the state
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Second Constitution of New Jersey adopted; it provided suffrage only to white males
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First state hospital opened at Trenton due to efforts of Dorothea Dix
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The first normal school in New Jersey founded at Trenton
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The second normal school in New Jersey founded at Trenton
