The history of the most iconic city in the world.
History of New YorkBack in 1524, New York Bay was first discovered by Giovanni da Verrazano, an Italian-born navigator. An Englishman named Henry Hudson who was employed by the Dutch, reached New York Bay in 1609 and then sailed up the river that is now named after him. This was during the same year that Samuel de Champlain explored northern New York and then claimed for France. Only a few years later, in 1624, the first permanent Dutch settlement was established in Albany, then know as Fort Orange. The Island of Manhattan was purchased a year later from the Native Americans by Peter Minuit who paid them with trinkets that were worth sixty Dutch guilders. It was there that he founded the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, however, in 1664 he had to relinquish this location to the English who then renamed it New York City. |
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