New Netherland
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Was the 17th century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the northeastern coast of North America. The colony notably included modern-day New York.
Establishment
January 1615: Foundation of Fort Nassau (1614) on Castle Eylandt in the North River, now Westerlo Island.
Chronology
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A series of wars fought in northern and northeastern Europe from the 16th to the 18th century.
1.1.Second Northern War
Was a war between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden (along with their respective allies) over the hegemony in the Baltic Sea.
September 1655: The Dutch moved an army to the Delaware River in the summer of 1655, easily capturing Fort Trinity and Fort Christina. The Swedish settlement was incorporated into Dutch New Netherland on September 15, 1655.
Was Royal Charter that united four English settlements together into the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
July 1663: The Royal Charter of 1663 consolidated four settlements into a single entity known as the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Were a series of conflicts mainly fought between the Dutch Republic and England (later Great Britain) from mid-17th to late 18th century.
3.1.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.
January 1622: Foundation of Fort Nassau (1621) on the Zuyd River, dismantled and relocated in (1651), now Gloucester City.
January 1625: Foundation of Fort Orange (1624) to replace Fort Nassau on the North River, now Albany.
January 1625: Foundation of Fort Wilhelmus (1624), on the Zuyd Rivier .
January 1625: Foundation of New Amsterdam (1624), now Lower Manhattan.
January 1625: Foundation of Noten Eylant (1624) at the mouth of the North River, now Governors Island.
January 1625: Kievets Hoek was founded in 1624 by English Puritans led by John Winthrop and Dutch settlers led by Adriaen Block. The settlement was later renamed Old Saybrook and became part of New Netherland.
January 1626: Foundation of Fort Amsterdam (1625), at the tip of the isle of Manhattan.
January 1631: Foundation of Pavonia (1630) on the North River, attempted patroonship of Michael Pauw, now Hudson County.
January 1631: Foundation of Rensselaerswyck (1630), patroonship Kiliaen van Rensselaer on the North River, now Capital District.
January 1634: Foundation of Fort Huis de Goed Hoop (1633) near the Fresh River, now Hartford.
January 1635: Foundation of Communipaw (1634), as Jan de Lacher's Hoeck, now Liberty State Park.
January 1636: The Saybrook Colony was an English colony established in late 1635 at the mouth of the Connecticut River in present-day Old Saybrook, Connecticut by John Winthrop, the Younger, son of John Winthrop, the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
January 1636: Foundation of Noortwijk (1630s), now Greenwich Village.
March 1636: Connectitut was organized on March 3, 1636 as a settlement for a Puritan congregation.
January 1637: Foundation of Quetenesse (1636), now Dutch Island in Rhode Island, and possibly nearby Fort Ninigret.
January 1638: Foundation of Nieuwe Haarlem (1637) and (1652) municipal charter.
January 1638: Foundation of Pelham (1637), a New Englander's homestead.
January 1639: New Sweden was a Swedish colony along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in America, established in 1638.
January 1640: Foundation of Broncks (1639) now The Bronx, settled by Jonas Bronck.
January 1640: Foundation of Staaten Eylandt (1639), an attempted patroonship of Cornelius Meyln.
January 1641: Foundation of Vriessendael (1640), homestead of David Pietersen de Vries, now Edgewater.
January 1641: The foundation of Southold in 1640 was led by Puritan minister Reverend John Youngs and a group of English settlers from New Haven, Connecticut. The territory was originally part of New Netherland before being transferred to the English in 1664.
January 1643: Foundation of Maspat (1642), under a charter granted to Rev. Francis Doughty, now Maspeth.
January 1643: Foundation of Greenwich (1642), English manor under Dutch jurisdiction.
January 1643: Foundation of Vriedelandt (1642), Englishman John Throckmorton settles, now Throg's Neck.
January 1644: Foundation of Hoboken (1643), a lease at Pavonia.
January 1644: Foundation of Eastchester (1643) homestead of Anne Hutchinson's family and followers.
January 1644: Foundation of Hemsteede (1643), New England settlement on Lange Eylandt.
January 1646: Foundation of Gravesend (1645) settled under Dutch patent by English Anabaptist Lady Deborah Moody and followers.
January 1646: Foundation of Vlissingen (1645) under Dutch patent, mostly English colonists, many of them Quakers, now Flushing.
January 1647: Foundation of Colen Donck (1646), homestead of Jonkheer Adriaen van der Donck, now Yonkers.
January 1647: Foundation of Constable Hook.
January 1648: Foundation of Nieuw Amersfoort (1647), now Flatlands.
January 1648: Foundation of Weehawken (1647), a land patent.
January 1648: Foundation of Minkakwa (1647), now Caven Point.
January 1652: Fort Casimir was founded in 1651 by the Dutch West India Company in present-day Delaware. It was named after the Dutch governor of New Netherland, Jacob Alrichs. The fort was later captured by the Swedish in 1654 and then recaptured by the Dutch in 1655.
January 1653: In the peace treaty of 1652 the Susquehannock ceded to Maryland large territories on both shores of the Chesapeake Bay in return for arms and for safety on their southern flank.
January 1653: Foundation of Nieuw Utrecht (1652), or New Utrecht.
January 1653: Foundation of Esopus (1652) now Ulster County.
January 1654: In 1653, the territory under the leadership of Johan Björnsson Printz, governor from 1643 to 1653, expanded along the river from Fort Christina. This territory was part of New Sweden, a Swedish colony in North America.
January 1654: Foundation of Oester Baai (1653), at the 1650 border between New England and New Netherland, now Oyster Bay.
June 1654: In New Sweden, the Dutch Fort Casimir was captured by soldiers from the New Sweden colony led by governor Johan Risingh.
January 1655: Foundation of Pamrapo (1654) Achter Col patents, now Bayonne.
January 1657: Foundation of Rustdorp (1656) land patent, now Jamaica.
January 1658: Foundation of Wiltwyk (1657), now Kingston.
January 1660: Expansion of New Netherland by 1660 (based on maps).
January 1662: Foundation of Schenectady.
August 1664: On August 27, 1664, four English frigates led by Richard Nicolls sailed into New Amsterdam's harbor and demanded New Netherland's surrender.
Disestablishment
March 1674: The Treaty of Westminster concluded the Third Anglo-Dutch War and ceded New Netherland to England.
