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1000 the Manhattan island is inhabited by the Algonquian Indians who gave the present-day Manhattan, the island borough of New York City, its name (in the language of the Algonquian Indians Manhattan means '' island of hills)
c.1500 Approximately as many as 15,000 Indians reside in 80 different places scattered all over the island
1609 Henry Hudson, commissioned by the Dutch West India Company, sails into the New York Harbor and sails along the Hudson River
1624 the Dutch West India Company establishes a settlement in the southern part of Manhattan and calls it New Amsterdam
1626 Peter Minuit, the director-general of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, gets into the posession of Manhattan, purchasing it from the Native Americans for goods valued at about 60 guilders (equal to $24)
1664 Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, surrenders at the British invasion, whereas King Charles II of England changes the name of the Dutch colony into New York, after his brother the Duke of York
1776 New York becomes the center of major military operations, commonly referred to as New York Campaign, during the War of Independence
1789 George Washington becomes the first President of the United States, whereas New York becomes America's first capital
1792 the NY Stock Exchange opens, with New York becoming the country's major financial center
1830 Loads of immigrants from Germany and Ireland come to New York
1835 Great Fire of the city takes place
1861-65 Civil War
1860-69 the Chinese, Italians and Eastern European Jews migrate to New York
1880 the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens
1883 the Broklyn Bridge opens
1886 the Statue of Liberty unveils
1892 the Immigration Office opens on Ellis Island
1898 the five outer boroughs become incorporated into New York City
1929 the New York Stock Exchange Crash, the Great Crisis begins
1931 the Empire State Building opens, making New York the world's capital city of skyscrapers
1952 New York City is chosen by the United Nations for the headquarters
1975 New York gets on the verge of bankruptcy
1982 IBM opens its first personal computer product center store
1997 Rudolf Giuliani becomes the first Republican mayor of New York City
2001 the terrorists in the hijacked planes crash into the World Trade Center, killing approximately 3,000 people
2003 Daniel Libeskind wins the award for the design of the new World Trade Center site building
2004 Time Warner Center opens, whereas the Museum of Modern Art re-opens (after thorough refurbishment)
2005 New York loses in the 2012 Olympics bid