Lenape & Dutch · event 4 of 13

1624

The first Dutch settlers arrive. The Dutch West India Company lands about thirty families, mostly Walloon, and distributes them across the new province of New Netherland — some to Governors Island, some up the Hudson to Fort Orange, which becomes Albany.

The Lenape & Dutch era

  1. c. 1000 BC
  2. 17 April 1524
  3. 11 September 1609
  4. 1624
  5. 1625
  6. 1626
  7. c. 1626
  8. 1643
  9. 11 May 1647
  10. 1653
  11. 1654
  12. 27 December 1657
  13. 8 September 1664

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