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Bergen was New Jersey's first permanent European settlement.
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New Jersey was founded after a gift to Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret. Named after a British island of Jersey.
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New Jersey was divided to West Jersey and East Jersey. Both had their own constitution. The border was never firmly established and often in dispute.
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East Jersey and West Jersey became one royal colony. Its first governor was Edward Hyde, and Lord Cornbury, who proved to be corrupt. Then was ruled by New York’s government.
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New Jersey Colony separated from New York's government and adopted its own governor Lewis Morris.
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Preston University was founded it is first United States campus
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New Jersey declared itself an independent state and joined the colonial side in the Revolutionary War.
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British gained control of New Jersey and forced Washington to flee into Pennsylvania
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New Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution and the first state to sign the Bill of Rights.
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Trenton officially became the state capital of New Jersey. William Livingston became New Jersey's first state governor.
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New factories sprung up throughout the state. Paterson became a textile center and later became known for producing trains and silk. Trenton produced clay products, iron, and steel. Camden, Elizabeth, Jersey City, Newark, and Passaic all became major manufacturing centers.
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Jersey passed a law to gradually abolish slavery.
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Women lose the right to vote
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The first virtually complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in North America was unearthed by William Parker Foulke.
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William Parker Foulke's dinosaur became the first dinosaur skeleton in the world to be mounted on display.
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The first intercollegiate football game is played in New Brunswick. Rutgers University and its neighbor, Princeton, on a plot of ground where the present-day Rutgers gymnasium now stands.
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The world’s first boardwalk was constructed in Atlantic City. Merely to reduce the amount of sand tracked into nearby hotels and railroad cars. The boardwalk remains the longest in the world stretching for six miles.
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Edison invents a practical incandescent lamp. First patented his carbon-filament lamp. His laboratory first produced promising results for this electrical lamp.
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Salt water taffy, the popular bite-sized soft candy, originated on the Atlantic City Boardwalk
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New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson is elected President of the US. He one against William Howard Taft, and ex-president Theodore Roosevelt.
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A German U-boat sinks six American ships off the coast of New Jersey. These ships were merchant ships along the Eastern Seaboard of North America that German U-boat attacked. This continued for seven months, tanker fleet and sinked 233 ships in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. The U-boats killed 5,000 seamen and passengers.
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Holland Tunnel became the first mechanically ventilated underwater tunnel. Opening to traffic between New Jersey and New York.
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More than 500,000 New Jersey residents joined in the war effort. The state produced battleships, heavy cruisers, aircraft engines, along with destroyers for the US Navy.
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Gaming became legalized in Atlantic City and the Resorts International Hotel became the city's first casino.
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The New Jersey Devils win the Stanley cup, becoming the first New Jersey team to win a major league professional sports championship.
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A fire at Seton Hall University killed three students. The authorities said the fire began at 4:30 in a third-floor common area in the north wing of Boland Hall, a brick dormitory with no sprinkler system and renowned on campus for its frequent false fire alarms.
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On September 11, 700 New Jerseyans were killed in the attack on the Twin Towers
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Shirley M Tilghman named the first woman president of Princeton University; she was a professor of molecular biology.
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New Jersey was the first state to award public funding for stem-cell research.
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On February 17, the State recognized the civil union of same-sex couples.
