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The European installation began in 1614 in the hands of the Dutch and in 1626, the head of the colony, Peter Minuit, bought the island of Manhattan to Lenape. The place would be renamed Nieuw Amsterdam and would specialize in the fur trade. In 1664, the English conquered the city and renamed it New York in honor of the Duke of York and Albany.
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The name of the state comes from the Native American town Iowa that inhabited the region. The first Europeans who explored the region were the French Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette in 1673, who described the region as green and fertile.
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In 1754, the city's first study house was founded, Columbia University
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Julien Dubuque (1762 - 1810), born of Norman parents in St. Pierre les Brecquets, on the southern bank of the St. Lawrence River, just over a hundred kilometers east of Quebec City, Canada, was the first European to live in what is now Iowa.
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In 1789, the first president of the United States, George Washington, was announced at the Federal Hall on Wall Street.
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New York was the capital of the United States until 1790
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The first school in the state, a private school, was founded in 1830, when Iowa was still part of the Michigan Territory, which is currently Lee County.
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By 1835, New York City had surpassed Philadelphia as the largest city in the United States.
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The first Iowa newspaper, the Dubuque Visitor, was first published in 1836, in Dubuque, and the publication lasted only until 1837. The oldest newspaper in the state still in circulation, on the other hand, is the Hawk Eye, which first published in 1837, in Burlington, with the name of Wisconsin Territorial Gazette and Burlington Advertiser
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On December 28, 1846, Iowa became the 29th state of the Union.
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On December 28, 1846, as the state number 29.
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The road between Mexico and Cuernavaca is inaugurated, passing through Tepepan, San Mateo and Topilejo in the district of Xochimilco
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Central Park, became the first landscape park of an American city in 1857.
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The Municipal Palace of Xochimilco is inaugurated
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The development of electric lighting led to the production of theatrical productions, and in the 1880s, the theaters of the city of Broadway and 42nd streets began to create a new genre that would become known as the Broadway musical.
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In 1898, the modern city of New York was formed with the annexation to Manhattan of Brooklyn (until then an independent city) and municipalities of other districts thanks to projects such as the Brooklyn Bridge.
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The prison of Xochimilco is inaugurated
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The first electric train arrives in Xochimilco
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Porfirio Díaz solemnly inaugurates the potable water supply works of Xochimilco to Mexico City.
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The president of the Republic, Francisco I. Madero presides the first party to the goddess of flowers Xochiquetzalli in Xochimilco
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The generals Emiliano Zapata and Francisco Villa meet, where they reaffirm their revolutionary ideals, calling this interview the "Pact of Xochimilco"
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The first radio station was founded in 1919, in Iowa City
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The "Hospital Xochimilco" is inaugurated by the President of the General Republic Álvaro Obregón
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The first television station in the state was founded in 1949, also in Iowa City
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President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines inaugurates the Xochitl market in Xochimilco.
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Xochimilco is declared Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the Technical Committee of UNESCO World, Cultural and Natural Heritage
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Iowa voters supported Bill Clinton in the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections
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The 2000 national census, from the United States Census Bureau, estimated the population of Iowa at 2,926,324 inhabitants, 12 a growth of 5.4% compared to the population of the state in 1990, of 2,776,755 inhabitants
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The city was the main target of the attacks of September 11, 2001, in which almost 3000 people died in the suicide attacks that took place when 19 members of the terrorist network Al-Qaeda23 hijacked four passenger planes, Its objective was to impact the United States Capitol.
