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On September 11th, 1609, the Dutch ship, the Halve Maen, entered New York Bay and sailed up the mighty river it found there.

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The Dutch established a colony on what’s now Manhattan Island called New Amsterdam.

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In 1625, the Dutch settlers moved their cattle to Lower Manhattan from Governors Island.

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It was renamed New York once the British took control of the area.

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On April 19th, 1775

The first shots of the Revolutionary War are fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts.

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On February 22th 1797 – The last invasion of Britain: An American colonel named William Tate leads French forces in a landing near Fishguard in Wales.

On March 4th 1797 – John Adams is sworn in as the second president of the United States, and Thomas Jefferson is sworn in as the second vice president.

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In 1825, New York became a very important port city in the 19th century, especially in the 1820s, that's when the Erie Canal opened.

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In 1892 the United States presidential election started.

United States presidential election: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver, to win the second of his non-consecutive terms. An anarchist bomb kills six in a police station in Avenue de l'Opéra, Paris.

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In 2018 there were 8,397 million residents living in New York city

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New York City is a very popular city in the United States, actually one of the most popular cities in the US.