25,000 B. C.
The Manhattan area is inundated by the sea.
10,000 B. C.
Native Americans inhabit Manhattan island.
1200 B. C.
Woodland Indian habitations and burial sites are located on Lake Champlain, near Ticonderoga.
1100 A. D.
The approximate date of Indian settlements in the Brooklyn area.
1524
Apr 17
Explorer Giovanni da Verrazano, commissioned by France's Francis I, discovers, enters New York’s Upper Bay through the Narrows, between Staten Island and Brooklyn. He meets a party of Lenape Nayack Indians; relations are amicable.
1525
Black Portuguese navigator sailing for Emperor Charles V of Spain. arrives from Labrador, sails up the Hudson River (naming it the Deer, or San Antonio River) decides it doesn't lead to the Moluccas and sails back out again, continuing on to Florida.
1586
Deborah Dunch (later Lady Moody), the first female landowner in the New World, is born in London to Walter and Debora Dunch.
1597
September
Dutch merchant and New Netherland director-general Willem Kieft is born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to a Portuguese Sephardic family.
1602
March
Provincial governments of the Netherlands, along with local merchnts, form the United Netherlands Chartered East India Company (The Dutch East India Company or VOC, Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie). Trade routes are limited to around the Cape of Good Hope or through the Strait of Magellan.
1604
Apr 28
Brooklyn settler Joris Jansen de Rapalje, a Walloon, is born to Jean Rapareilles and Elizabeth Baudoin, in Valenciennes, France.
1609
Sep 2
English explorer Henry “Hendrick” Hudson, seeking a northeast passage to the Orient for the Dutch East India Company, anchors his ship the Half Moon in the lower end of New York harbor.
Sep 3
Hudson enters the Narrows.
Sep 4
Hudson anchors off southwestern Brooklyn, names the bay Gravesend. Canarsie Indian's canoes come out to see the Half Moon. He will name the Lenni-Lenape Indian's Eghquaons large island across the Nartrows Status Eylandt, in honor of the Netherland's Staats General.
Sep 5
Hudson sends a party to Long Island, where they meet with friendly natives and invite them for a visit aboard to trade.
Sep 6
Hudson sends a five-man crew under John Colman ashore on Long Island to explore. On their return to the ship they are attacked by two canoes full of natives. Colman is killed, two others injured. The survivors can’t find the Half Moon in the dark. Colman is buried at one of the following possible locations - Sandy Hook or the future Keansburg in New Jersey, on Staten Island, or in the Coney Island area of the future Brooklyn - the first recorded victim of violence in the general area of the future New York City.
Sep 7
Hudson takes two Indians hostage.
Sep 10
Hudson enters the bay.
Sep 11
Hudson anchors in the bay.
Sep 12
Hudson crosses upper New York Bay, purchases oysters and beans from the natives on Manhattan Island, and heads north into the Hudson River.
Sep 13
Henry Hudson anchors off the Yonkers area.
Sep 14
Hudson anchors off today’s West Point area. The two Indian hostages escape.
Sep 15
Hudson arrives in the Kingston area.
Sep 16
Hudson arrives in the Hudson area.
Sep 17
Hudson arrives in the Castleton area, home to the Mahican Indian’s Schotak (Schodack) village.
Sep 19
Hudson arrives in the Albany area.
Sep 23
Hudson leaves the Albany area.
Sep 24
The Half Moon runs aground on Upper Schodack Island in the Castleton area.
Sep 30
The Half Moon arrives in the area near West Point.
Oct 1
After a failed attempt by the natives to steal from the Half Moon Indians in
Haverstraw Bay attack the vessel. The crew kills two.
Oct 2
The Half Moon passes Nappeckamack (today’s Yonkers). Off Spuyten Duyvil Creek the
vessel is attacked by local Indians in canoes. Two of the attackers are killed.
Oct 4
Hudson sails for England.
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