Griffis, William Elliot, The story of New Netherland

(Boston and New York :  Houghton Mifflin Company,  1909.)

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APPENDIX

A.  THE FRAMEWORK OF CHRONOLOGY

1431. Dutch sailors re-discover and colonize the Azores.

1567. Spanish invasion of the Netherlands. Flight of
Walloons.

1577. First National Synod of the Netherlands Church.

1581. Dutch Declaration of Independence. Reward of
25,000 guilders offered for a new way to
China.

1597-1616. Dutch circumnavigations of the globe.

1602. The Dutch East India Company formed.

1609. Great Truce. Henry Hudson enters the Great
River.

1609-1614. Visits of fur-traders. Huts on Manhattan.

1614. Block's Exploration and Map. New Netherland
named. The United New Netherland Com¬
pany. Trading posts.

1621.  The West India Company chartered.

1622.  Jesse de Forest in Leyden enrolls emigrants for

America.
1623-1624. Walloons colonize New Netherland.
1626. Civil government. Minuit buys Manhattan.
1628. First Dutch Church. Domine Michaelius.
1630. Feudalism   introduced.   The   Patroon   system.

Colony at Rensselaerwijk begun by Nijkerk

Dutch people.
1633. Adam Roelandsen, first schoolmaster, arrives.
1633-1638. Walter van Twiller, Director-General.
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