Lenape & Dutch · event 5 of 13

1625

New Amsterdam founded. The company concentrates its settlement on the southern tip of Manhattan and begins Fort Amsterdam. The settlement around it is named New Amsterdam. It is a trading post run for profit, not a colony.

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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