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1625  | The Dutch left Governor's Island and built Fort Amsterdam in what is now southern Manhattan. Fort Amsterdam was the administrative seat of 'New Amsterdam'. The construction of Fort Amsterdam in 1625 marked the official founding of what is now the city of New York. Construction began in 1625 under the direction of Willem Verhulst, the second director of the colony of New Netherland. At this time, Lenape Indians were living on Manhattan. When the first Europeans arrived in 1620, there were an estimated 15,000 Lenape Indians living in around 80 villages in the area that is now New York City. In 1626, Peter Minuit, the third director of the New Netherland colony, bought the Manhattan peninsula from the Lenape Indians at a very favorable price.   | Lenape | - |
| 1626 | Purchase of Manhattan 1626The Manhatta band of the Lenape (Delaware) Indians sold the island of Manhattan to the Rhinelander Peter Minuit for a ridiculous price (there are sources that say that the Canarsie band of the Lenape sold the island to Peter Minuit). Manhattan was called the Island of Drunkenness in Native American. Peter Minuit built New Amsterdam on Manhattan. In 1664, the English took New Amsterdam from the Dutch and renamed the settlement New York. | Manhatta (Lenape) Canarsie (Lenape) Delaware | - |
| 29 March 1638 | Swedish, Finnish, German and Dutch settlers establish a base with Fort Christina and the port of Christinahamn on the Delaware River with two ships under the leadership of Peter Minuit. The two ships had set sail from Sweden. The colony was called New Sweden, which led to protests from the Dutch, as they were already present in the area with Fort Nassau and the then abandoned village of Zwaanendael. Peter Minuit died in a storm on his way back to Sweden. A little further north, the settlement of New Amsterdam was established in 1625, around which the Swedes and Dutch fought each other. | - | - |