ad so
much in common, that they, with some of their suburbs, were united into
one great city in the year 1898.

Then the Island of Manhattan became simply the Borough of Manhattan, one
of the five boroughs of Greater New York.

So the story of the Island of Manhattan is ended.

TABLE of EVENTS

Year

1609. Hudson discovers the island of Manhattan

1613. Ship Tiger burned

1614. United New Netherland Company organized

1614. Fort Manhattan built

1621. West India Company organized

1626. Peter Minuit Governor
Fort Amsterdam built

1629. Charter adopted under which the Manors were established

1633. Van Twillier Governor

1636. Annetje Jans' Farm laid out

1638. William Kieft appointed Governor

1641. First Cattle Fair held on Bowling Green

1642. Stadt Huys built
Church built in the Fort

1643. Beginning of the Indian wars

1644. Fence erected, which was later replaced by a wall, and still
later by Wall Street

1646. Peter Stuyvesant appointed Governor

1647. Kieft and Dominie Bogardus drowned in the wreck of the Princess
while returning to Holland

1652. City of New Amsterdam incorporated

1653. New Amsterdam made a walled city by the building of a wall
across the island

1655. Stuyvesant subdues the Swedes on the Delaware
Indian war breaks out again

1664. English capture New Amsterdam and it becomes New York
Richard Nicolls Governor

1667. Francis Lovelace appointed Governor

1670. Lovelace establishes the first Exchange

1673. First mail route established
The Dutch retake New York

1674. English again in possession of New York
Sir Edmund Andros Governor
Captain Manning disgraced for surrendering New York to the Dutch

1678. Bolting Act created

1681. Andros recalled

1682. Thomas Dongan Governor

1686. Dongan Charter granted to the city

1688. New York and New England united, and Sir Edmund Andros Governor

1689. William III. becomes King of England
Jacob Leisler assumes title of Lieutenant-Governor
and takes charge of New York

1691. Henry Sloughter Governor
Leisler and Milborne executed
Governor Sloughter dies

1692. Benjamin Fletcher Governor

1693. Bradford establishes first printing press in the colony

1696. Trinity Church built
Bolting Act repealed
Lord Bellomont appointed Governor
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