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The Swedish settlement led by Peter Minuit started the New Sweden colony.
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In 1646 Peter Stuyvesant became Dutch Governor of the New Netherlands.
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In 1655 the Dutch defeat the Swedes on the Delaware and Stuyvesant took possession of the New Sweden Colony. https://www.landofthebrave.info/new-york-colony.htm
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In 1664 the Dutch lose New Amsterdam to the British which is re-named as New York, after the Duke of York. https://www.landofthebrave.info/new-york-colony.htm
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New York City hosted the first Colonial Congress, a conference called to discuss the King of England's Stamp Act.
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New York did not sign the Declaration of Independence until July 9, 1776 as they were waiting for approval from their colony.
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In June, 1777, the New York Colony elected its first governor, George Clinton.
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The colony of New York became a state on July 26th, 1788.
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On April 30th, 1789 George Washington was inaugurated as the President of the United States in New York City. New York City was the new country's first capital city.
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In January 1797 Albany became New York State's capitol city.
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The US Military Academy opened at West Point
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The “Commissioner’s Plan” established an orderly grid of streets and avenues for the undeveloped parts of Manhattan north of Houston Street.
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Work began on a 363-mile canal from the Hudson River to Lake Erie.
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The Erie Canal opened in 1825, linking the Hudson River to the Great Lakes and leading to greater development in the western part of the state.
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New York outlawed slavery in 1827
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Construction began on the Croton Aqueduct, which provided clean water for the city’s growing population.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and more than 300 women and men gathered in Seneca Falls, for the nation's first women's rights convention.
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A late summer economic panic precipitates a Wall Street crash and the most severe economic crisis in U.S. history.
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New York State's Constitutional Convention of 1894 is held.
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Residents of Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island and Brooklyn–all independent cities at that time–voted to “consolidate” with Manhattan to form a five-borough “Greater New York.”
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When President William McKinley was assassinated in Buffalo, Theodore Roosevelt (born in New York City), was hurriedly sworn in as the 26th president of the US.
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New York City’s first subway line, called the IRT, opened.
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The Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building were completed, and the George Washington Bridge opened, all adding to the New York City's burgeoning skyline.
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The World's Fair opened in New York City, corresponding to the 150th anniversary of George Washington’s inauguration as first President of the US.
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New York City became the permanent headquarters of the United Nations.
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The World’s Fair opened (again) in New York City.
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David Dinkins was elected Mayor of New York City. He was the City’s first African-American mayor.
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New York City suffered the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United States when a group of terrorists crashed two hijacked jets into the city’s tallest buildings: the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
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In March, Lieutenant Governor David Paterson became Governor of NY, upon the resignation of Eliot Spitzer. He is New York’s first African-American governor and first legally blind governor, as well as the fourth African-American governor in the US.
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On June 24, New York became the sixth state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage.
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