New Amsterdam founded
1625 · Event
The Dutch West India Company plants a fur-trading town at the tip of Manhattan; the English will rename it in 1664, but the street plan of Wall Street is Dutch.
On these timelines: The Low Countries, Master, USA
More from The Low Countries
- Dutch Golden Age (1588)
- Dutch Republic (1588)
- Johannes Vermeer (1632)
- William the Silent (1533)
- Jan van Eyck (1390)
- Belgian Revolution (1830)
- Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652)
- German invasion of the Netherlands (1940)
Around 1625
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)