New York City: a brief history: 1600-2017

Note: I use present-day names. Within each decade, things are not necessarily in chronological order. 

Manhattan circa 1600, looking north.

1600: Population: 1,000?

• 1600s: The Delaware – for at least the last 1,000 years. Munsee language, Eastern Woodland culture.
• 1610s:Juan Rodriguez’s trading post, Dutch fort.
• 1620s:The Dutch: “Manhattan was sold for $24”. Black slaves.
• 1630s:
• 1640s: Bowling Green Massacre (the real one); Kieft’s War drives the Delaware north out of Manhattan.
• 1650s: Free Blacks farm what is now Washington Square Park.
• 1660s:The British. New York English, yellow fever epidemic, the first of many.
• 1670s:
• 1680s:
• 1690s:

Wall Street in 1660 – when it still had a wall. And when Water Street was still on the water. North-east is up.

1700: Population: 5,000.

• 1700s: 42% of households have slaves.
• 1710s: slave uprising, African Burial Ground now in use.
• 1720s:
• 1730s:
• 1740s: