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Story of Manhattan, The

<h2>CHAPTER XL</h2> <h3>THE GREATER NEW YORK</h3> The time came when the city of New York grew beyond the limits of the Island of Manhattan, though the island had seemed such a boundless tract of land, that it had been thought laughable for the City Plan to provide for streets over its entire length. The city grew larger and larger. It stretched up to the Harlem River, leaped over it and went branching out into the country beyond. Great libraries were built; hospitals for the sick; prisons for the wrong-doer, markets, churches, public institutions of every kind. Buildings grew taller and taller until they came to be twenty and twenty-five stories high. Even then there were so many people that there were not houses enough to hold them all. So they swarmed over into the already large city of Brooklyn, on Long Island. And the ferry-boats being no longer able to carry the vast crowds in comfort, a great suspension bridge was built over the East River from New York to Brooklyn. At last the city of New York and the city of Brooklyn had so much in common, that they, with some of their suburbs, were united into one great city in the year 1898. Then the Island of Manhattan became simply the Borough of Manhattan, one of the five boroughs of Greater New York. So the story of the Island of Manhattan is ended. <hr style='width: 65%;' /> <h2>TABLE of EVENTS</h2> Year 1609. <ul><li>Hudson discovers the island of Manhattan</li></ul> 1613. <ul><li>Ship Tiger burned</li></ul> 1614. <ul><li>United New Netherland Company organized</li></ul> 1614. <ul><li>Fort Manhattan built</li></ul> 1621. <ul><li>West India Company organized</li></ul> 1626. <ul><li>Peter Minuit Governor</li> <li>Fort Amsterdam built</li> </ul> 1629. <ul><li>Charter adopted under which the Manors were established</li></ul> 1633. <ul><li>Van Twillier Governor</li></ul> 1636. <ul><li>Annetje Jans' Farm laid out</li></ul> 1638. <ul><li>William Kieft appointed Governor</li></ul> 1641. <ul><li>First Cattle Fair held on Bowling Green</li></ul> 1642. <ul><li>Stadt Huys built</li> <li>Church built in the Fort</li></ul> 1643. <ul><li>Beginning of the Indian wars</li></ul> 1644. <ul><li>Fence erected, which was later replaced by a wall, and still later by Wall Street</li></ul> 1646. <ul><li>Peter Stuyvesant appointed Governor</li></ul> 1647. <ul><li>Kieft and Dominie Bogardus drowned in the wreck of the Princess while returning to Holland</li></ul> 1652. <ul><li>City of New Amsterdam incorporated</li></ul> 1653. <ul><li>New Amsterdam made a walled city by the building of a wall across the island</li></ul> 1655. <ul><li>Stuyvesant subdues the Swedes on the Delaware</li> <li>Indian war breaks out again</li></ul> 1664. <ul><li>English capture New Amsterdam and it becomes New York</li> <li>Richard Nicolls Governor</li></ul> 1667. <ul><li>Francis Lovelace appointed Governor</li></ul> 1670. <ul><li>Lovelace establishes the first Exchange</li></ul> 1673. <ul><li>First mail route established</li> <li>The Dutch retake New York</li></ul> 1674. <ul><li>English again in possession of New York</li> <li> Sir Edmund Andros Governor</li> <li> Captain Manning disgraced for surrendering New York to the Dutch</li></ul> 1678. <ul><li>Bolting Act created</li></ul> 1681. <ul><li>Andros recalled</li></ul> 1682. <ul><li>Thomas Dongan Governor</li></ul> 1686. <ul><li>Dongan Charter granted to the city</li></ul> 1688. <ul><li>New York and New England united, and Sir Edmund Andros Governor</li></ul> 1689. <ul><li>William III. becomes King of England</li> <li> Jacob Leisler assumes title of Lieutenant-Governor and takes charge of New York</li></ul> 1691. <ul><li>Henry Sloughter Governor</li> <li> Leisler and Milborne executed</li> <li> Governor Sloughter dies</li></ul> 1692. <ul><li>Benjamin Fletcher Governor</li></ul> 1693. <ul><li>Bradford establishes first printing press in the colony</li></ul> 1696. <ul><li>Trinity Church built</li> <li> Bolting Act repealed</li> <li> Lord Bellomont appointed Governor</li> <li> Captain Kidd sails to search for pirates</li></ul> 1697. <ul><li>Streets first lighted at night</li></ul> 1699. <ul><li>City wall demolished and Wall Street laid out</li> <li> City Hall built in Wall Street</li></ul> 1700. <ul><li>First library opened</li></ul> 1701. <ul><li>Captain Kidd executed in England</li> <li> Lord Bellomont dies</li></ul> 1702. <ul><li>Lord Cornbury Governor</li></ul> 1705. <ul><li>Queen's Farm granted to Trinity Church by Queen Anne</li></ul> 1708. <ul><li>Lord Lovelace Governor</li></ul> 1710. <ul><li>Robert Hunter Governor</li></ul> 1711. <ul><li>Public slave market established</li></ul> 1714. <ul><li>First public clock set on City Hall in Wall Street</li></ul> 1715. <ul><li>Lewis Morris appointed Chief-Justice</li></ul> 1720. <ul><li>William Burnet Governor</li></ul> 1725. <ul><li>Bradford prints first newspaper in city</li></ul> 1728. <ul><li>John Montgomery Governor</li></ul> 1729. <ul><li>First Jewish cemetery established</li></ul> 1731. <ul><li>First Fire Department organized</li> <li> Montgomery dies</li></ul> 1732. <ul><li>William Cosby Governor</li></ul> 1733. <ul><li>James De Lancey made Chief-Justice</li></ul> 1735. <ul><li>Peter Zenger tried for libel</li></ul> 1736. <ul><li>Governor Cosby dies</li></ul> 1741. <ul><li>Negro Plot</li></ul> 1743. <ul><li>George Clinton Governor</li></ul> 1745. <ul><li>Louisburg captured</li></ul> 1752. <ul><li>Walton House built</li></ul> 1753. <ul><li>Sir Danvers Osborne Governor</li></ul> 1755. <ul><li>Sir Charles Hardy Governor</li></ul> 1756. <ul><li>Corner-stone of King's College laid</li> <li> Lord Loudoun appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in America</li></ul> 1759. <ul><li>General Jeffrey Amherst appointed Commander-in-Chief in place of Lord Loudoun</li></ul> 1760. <ul><li>Montreal captured</li> <li> Lieutenant-Governor De Lancey dies</li> <li> George II. of England dies</li> <li> George III. becomes King</li></ul> 1761. <ul><li>Robert Monckton Governor</li></ul> 1763. <ul><li>Monckton resigns as Governor</li></ul> 1765. <ul><li>Stamp Act passed</li> <li> First Colonial Congress held in New York</li> <li> Sir Henry Moore Governor</li></ul> 1766. <ul><li>Stamp Act repealed</li> <li> Liberty Pole set up on the Common</li></ul> 1770. <ul><li>Statues of William Pitt and George III. erected</li> <li> Tax removed on all articles except tea</li> <li> Battle of Golden Hill</li></ul> 1771. <ul><li>Sir William Tryon Governor</li></ul> 1773. <ul><li>Tax on tea reduced</li></ul> 1774. <ul><li>Taxed Tea dumped into the river</li> <li> First Continental Congress held</li></ul> 1775. <ul><li>Lexington massacre</li> <li> Second Continental Congress</li> <li> Turtle Bay stores seized</li> <li> Marinus Willett seizes the British ammunition wagons</li> <li> Battle of Bunker Hill</li> <li> Governor Tryon returns from England</li> <li> General Montgomery killed at Quebec</li></ul> 1776. <ul><li>April.--General Washington comes to New York after the success of the Continental army at Boston</li> <li> July.--Independence declared</li> <li> August.--Battle of Long Island</li></ul> 1776. <ul><li>September.--British occupy New York Battle of Harlem Heights A Great Fire Nathan Hale executed</li> <li> November.--Fort Washington captured</li></ul> 1777. <ul><li>George Clinton, Governor of New York State</li> <li> Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga</li> <li> Washington at Valley Forge</li></ul> 1780. <ul><li>Benedict Arnold's treason</li></ul> 1781. <ul><li>Surrender of Lord Cornwallis</li></ul> 1783. <ul><li>September.--Treaty of Peace, between Great Britain and the United States, signed</li> <li> November.--British troops depart from New York</li> <li> December.--Washington bids farewell to his officers at Fraunces's Tavern</li></ul> 1788. <ul><li>The Doctors' Mob</li></ul> 1789. <ul><li>New York the seat of the National Government</li> <li> Washington becomes First President of the United States and comes to live in New York</li> <li> The Government House built</li> <li> Tammany Society organized</li></ul> 1790. <ul><li>Trinity Church rebuilt</li></ul> 1798. <ul><li>Small-pox epidemic</li> <li> Manhattan Company established</li></ul> 1803. <ul><li>New City Hall begun</li></ul> 1804. <ul><li>Alexander Hamilton killed by Aaron Burr</li></ul> 1805. <ul><li>Free School Society organized</li></ul> 1807. <ul><li>The Clermont launched</li></ul> 1811. <ul><li>City Plan completed</li></ul> 1812. <ul><li>United States at war with Great Britain</li></ul> 1814. <ul><li>Fort Clinton (afterward called Castle Garden) built</li> <li> War with Great Britain ended</li></ul> 1823. <ul><li>Yellow fever epidemic</li></ul> 1824. <ul><li>General Lafayette comes again to America</li></ul> 1825. <ul><li>Erie Canal celebration</li> <li> Gas introduced into city</li></ul> 1833. <ul><li>First penny newspaper started</li></ul> 1835. <ul><li>The "Great Fire" destroys six hundred houses</li> <li> Work commenced on the Croton Aqueduct</li></ul> 1842. <ul><li>Water admitted through the Croton Aqueduct</li></ul> 1845. <ul><li>First telegraph recording apparatus publicly tested by Samuel F.B. Morse</li></ul> 1849. <ul><li>Forrest-Macready riots</li></ul> 1853. <ul><li>World's Fair in the Crystal Palace</li></ul> 1856. <ul><li>Ground bought by the city for the Central Park</li></ul> 1863. <ul><li>The Draft Riot</li></ul> 1870. <ul><li>Brooklyn Bridge started</li></ul> 1878. <ul><li>Elevated roads built</li></ul> 1883. <ul><li>Brooklyn Bridge completed</li></ul> 1898. <ul><li>The island of Manhattan becomes the Borough of Manhattan of Greater New York</li></ul> <hr style='width: 65%;' /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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