Henry Hudson Explores the Hudson River

Name: Henry Hudson Explores the Hudson River
Start: 1609

Type Event Region North America Time 1609

In 1609, English navigator Henry Hudson, employed by the Dutch East India Company, sailed the Half Moon north along the North American coast, enterin…

Timeline

1609Mouth of the Hudson River · New York StateHudson steered the Half Moon into the wide river mouth, made contact with indigenous tribes along the banks, and charted the channel, opening the way for later Dutch merchants and the fur trade.
1609Near present-day Albany · New York StateThe fleet sailed upriver until shallow waters made further progress impossible, confirming the waterway was not a Northwest Passage to the Pacific, then returned to Europe; his logbook became an important basis for Dutch colonial expansion.

Sources

Henry Hudson's 1609 Voyage https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/