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The history of New York begins around 10,000 B.C. when the first people arrived. By 1100 A.D. two main cultures had become dominant as the Iroquoian and Algonquian developed. European discovery of New York was led by the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524 followed by the first land claim in 1609 by the Dutch.
The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer, the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524. European settlement began with the Dutch in 1608 and New Amsterdam was founded in 1624.
The British renamed the colony New York, after the king's brother James, Duke of York and on June 12, 1665, appointed Thomas Willett the first of the mayors of New York. The city grew northward, remaining the largest and most important city in the colony of New York.
The revolutionary New York Provincial Congress of local representatives assumed the government on May 22, 1775, declared the province the State of New York in 1776, and ratified the first New York Constitution in 1777.
The city was the original home of the Albank (founded in 1820 as the Albany Savings Bank), [82] KeyBank (founded in 1825 as the Commercial Bank of Albany), [83] and Norstar Bank (founded as the State Bank of Albany in 1803). [84] American Express was founded in Albany in 1850 as an express mail business. [85]
History of New York may refer to: History of New York (state), about the history of the State of New York.
The New York State Museum was founded in 1836 as the New York State Geological and Natural History Survey, formed in 1836 by Governor William Marcy to document the mineral wealth of the state. [2]
New Netherland ( Dutch: Nieuw Nederland) was a 17th-century colonial province [5] of the Dutch Republic located on the east coast of what is now the United States of America. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to Cape Cod. Settlements were established in what became the states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outposts in Pennsylvania and ...
19th century. Cornell University was founded on April 27, 1865, by Ezra Cornell, an entrepreneur and New York State Senator, and Andrew Dickson White, an educator and also a New York State Senator, after the New York State legislature authorized the university as the state's land grant institution. [18]
Contents. Rochester, New York. For other uses, see Rochester, New York (disambiguation). ( 2020) Rochester ( / ˈrɒtʃɛstər, - ɪs -/) is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Monroe County. It is the fourth-most populous city and 10th most-populated municipality [3] in New York, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 ...