New Amsterdam Colonial City

Timeline

1. c. 1625–1635Southern tip of Manhattan Island · New AmsterdamThe Dutch West India Company established a fort and trading post at the southern tip of Manhattan, enclosing the town with a wooden palisade; the confluence of the Hudson and East Rivers formed a natural harbor, and fur traders used it as a base to penetrate the interior.
2. c. 1641–1650Within New Amsterdam's walls · New AmsterdamThe city expanded its walls and wharves, built a town hall and church, circulated wampum alongside Dutch guilders, and grew to about fifteen hundred people, becoming New Netherland's fur trade and colonial administrative center.
3. 1664Manhattan Island · New York CityEnglish forces occupied New Amsterdam; the Dutch West India Company was unable to recover it, and the city passed to England along with the colony, renamed New York, ending the period of direct Dutch rule.