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Bergen was new jersey first town that was permanent.it was where now is Jersey City and Hoboken.
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British took control from dutch in new jersey. they divide the land between Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkley
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new jersey in 1776 declared itself as an independent state and joined the colonial side.
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In 1787, New Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution and the first state to sign the Bill of Rights. In 1790, Trenton officially became the state capital of New Jersey. William Livingston became New Jersey's first state governor.
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New Jersey is the first state to sign the Bill of Rights.
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Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr have a famous duel in Weehawken had a strong dislike of one another for several years prior to the duel. Tensions reached a boiling point
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the first ferry service U.S opens between Hoboken and Manhattan
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This was during the beginning part of the revolutionary war against Britain for our independents
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fossil hobbyist William Parker Foulke was vacationing in Haddonfield, New Jersey, when he heard that twenty years previous, workers had found gigantic bones in a local marl pit. Foulke spent the late summer and fall directing a crew of hired diggers shin deep in gray slime. Eventually he found the bones (above, right) of an animal larger than an elephant with structural features of both a lizard and a bird.
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Inventor Thomas Edison of Menlo Park, New Jersey first patented his carbon-filament lamp on 1 November 1879. His laboratory first produced promising results for this electrical lamp on 21 October 1879; a glowing carbonized thread which lasted for more than fourteen.
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The first amusement pier over the ocean is built in Atlantic City
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Roselle is the first U.S. town to be lighted by electricity
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New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson is elected President of the U.S.
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A German U-boat sinks six American ships off the coast of New Jersey
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The first drive-in movie theater in the U.S. opens in Camden
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The U.S.S. New Jersey battleship is put into active service
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second African American to play Major League Baseball Larry Doby, from Paterson
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Four teams qualify for the New Jersey state tournament, including two teams from Northern Jersey, one from Central Jersey, and one from South Jersey. In recent years, the tournament has used either a double-elimination format or a round-robin schedule that is followed by a winner-take-all championship game.
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Snowboarding pioneer Tom Sims of Haddonfield creates the "ski board," an early version of the snowboard
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Christine Todd Whitman is elected New Jersey's first female governor
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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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The New Jersey population in the 2000 is 8,414,350
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The U.S.S. New Jersey battleship becomes a museum
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New Jersey preserves a record 20,000 acres of farmland
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A beluga whale swims up the Delaware River to Trenton; more than 100 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.
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New Jersey Supreme Court rules on gay couple’s issues; are entitled to the same legal rights and financial benefits as heterosexual couples.
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first person to view a supernova,a star in the act of exploding Princeton astronomer, Alicia Soderberg
