A Brief Early NYC Timeline
| 1524 | Verrazano explores Lower New York Harbor on behalf of the French | |
| 1609 | Henry Hudson sails up North [Hudson} River on behalf of Dutch | |
| 1611 | Adrien Block sails around Manhattan Island; discovers L/Island Sound | |
| 1624 | First Dutch settlement of Manhattan {New Amsterdam] | |
| 1626 | Peter Minuit to Manhattan -- Settlement of 30 houses | |
| 1640s | Dutch spread throughout southern region around New Amsterdam | |
| 1646 | Peter Stuyvesant begins 20-year regime | |
| 1664 | English displace Dutch rule; New Amsterdam becomes New York | |
| 1673 | Dutch temporarily resize new York; give it over in 1674 | |
| 1674 | Uninterrupted English governance until 1784 with evaculation of NYC | |
| 1775 | NYC as site of Continental Congress | |
| 1788 | NYC as first federal capital; lost to Philadelphia in 1790 | |
| 1790 | First Federal census reports population of 33,000; 3rd in nation | |