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Was a British proprietary colony and later royal colony on the northeast coast of North America. It was a successor to the Dutch Province of New Netherland, conquered in 1664 by England.
Establishment
January 1665: In 1664, the Province of New York was established as a proprietary colony after the English successfully captured the territory from the Dutch. The Duke of York, who later became King James II, was granted the land by his brother King Charles II.
January 1665: Long Island was claimed by Connecticut until 1664 when it was annexed by the Province of New York under the leadership of English Duke of York, James II.
Chronology
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Were a series of conflicts mainly fought between the Dutch Republic and England (later Great Britain) from mid-17th to late 18th century.
1.1.Third Anglo-Dutch War
Was a conflict between the Dutch Republic and England, in alliance with France.
September 1673: The Dutch recaptured New Netherland from England with a fleet of 21 ships led by Vice Admiral Cornelius Evertsen and Commodore Jacob Binckes.
March 1674: The Treaty of Westminster concluded the Third Anglo-Dutch War and ceded New Netherland to England.
Were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America throughout the Saint Lawrence River valley in Canada and the lower Great Lakes region which pitted the Iroquois League against the Hurons, northern Algonquians and their French allies.
January 1678: In 1677, the Iroquois adopted the majority of the Iroquoian-speaking Susquehannock into their nation.
Was a revolution in England and Scotland that led to the deposition of Catholic King James II.
November 1688: By November 1688 William of Orange, who was Stadtholder of the Netherlands, and his wife Mary, were in control of England and Wales. They would later become King and Queen of Great Britain.
Was a global conflict that involved most of the European great powers, and was fought primarily in Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. At the end of the war the main winner was Great Britain, that obtained territories in North America, the Caribbean and India, becoming the most powerful maritime and colonial of the European powers.
4.1.French and Indian War
Was a theater of war of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.
August 1757: In early August 1757, French General Montcalm and his 7,000 troops besieged Fort William Henry, leading to its capitulation. The British forces agreed to withdraw under parole, handing over the territory to France.
August 1757: The French forces, led by General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and his subordinate Louis Antoine de Bougainville, remained at Fort William Henry for several days after its surrender by the British in 1757. They destroyed the remaining British fortifications before departing on August 18th to return to Fort Carillon.
Was the war of independence of the United States of America (at the time the Thirteen Colonies) against Great Britain.
July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence: the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.
5.1.Invasion of Quebec (1775)
Was the unsuccesful invasion of the British Province of Quebec by the United States Continental Army.
May 1775: Capture of Fort Ticonderoga.
May 1775: Battle of Crown Point.
October 1775: On October 18, Fort Chambly fell.
5.1.1.Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec
Colonel Benedict Arnold led a force of 1,100 Continental Army troops on an expedition from Cambridge in the Province of Massachusetts Bay to the gates of Quebec City.
September 1775: Continental Army troops led by Colonel Benedict Arnold sailed from Newburyport, Massachusetts to the mouth of the Kennebec River.
January 1675: Whorekills was restored to the Province of New York when New York was recaptured from the Dutch in November, 1674.
January 1702: The Lower Counties petitioned for and were granted an independent colonial legislature.
March 1702: As William III of England was also the de facto ruler of the Dutch Republic (as Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic), the Personal Union between Netherlands and Great Britain ended at his death.
Disestablishment
July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence: the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.
Selected Sources
Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Fredriksen, J.C. (2010): Chronology of American Military History - Volume 1, Facts On File, p.20
Fredriksen, J.C. (2010): Chronology of American Military History - Volume 1, Facts On File, p.6
Frothingham, R. (1903): History of the Siege of Boston, and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill: also an Account of the Bunker Hill Monument. Little, Brown, & Company, pp. 100-101
Israel, J. I. (1995): The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, Clarendon Press, pp. 959-960
Jennings, F. (1968). Glory, Death, and Transfiguration: The Susquehannock Indians in the Seventeenth Century. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 112(1), 15–53. http://www.jstor.org/stable/986100
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