August.--Battle of Long Island

1776. September.--British occupy New York
Battle of Harlem Heights
A Great Fire
Nathan Hale executed
November.--Fort Washington captured

1777. George Clinton, Governor of New York State
Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga
Washington at Valley Forge

1780. Benedict Arnold's treason

1781. Surrender of Lord Cornwallis

1783. September.--Treaty of Peace, between Great Britain and the
United States, signed
November.--British troops depart from New York
December.--Washington bids farewell to his officers at
Fraunces's Tavern

1788. The Doctors' Mob

1789. New York the seat of the National Government
Washington becomes First President of the United States and
comes to live in New York
The Government House built
Tammany Society organized

1790. Trinity Church rebuilt

1798. Small-pox epidemic
Manhattan Company established

1803. New City Hall begun

1804. Alexander Hamilton killed by Aaron Burr

1805. Free School Society organized

1807. The Clermont launched

1811. City Plan completed

1812. United States at war with Great Britain

1814. Fort Clinton (afterward called Castle Garden) built
War with Great Britain ended

1823. Yellow fever epidemic

1824. General Lafayette comes again to America

1825. Erie Canal celebration
Gas introduced into city

1833. First penny newspaper started

1835. The "Great Fire" destroys six hundred houses
Work commenced on the Croton Aqueduct

1842. Water admitted through the Croton Aqueduct

1845. First telegraph recording apparatus publicly tested by
Samuel F.B. Morse

1849. Forrest-Macready riots

1853. World's Fair in the Crystal Palace

1856. Ground bought by the city for the Central Park

1863. The Draft Riot

1870. Brooklyn Bridge started

1878. Elevated roads built

1883. Brooklyn Bridge completed

1898. The island of Manhattan becomes the Borough of Manhattan
of Greater New York

INDEX

Adventure Galley, 82, 83
Amherst, General Jeffrey, 123
Amsterdam, 2, 14
Andre, Major John, 177, 178
Andros, Edmund, 61, 62, 64, 66, 68
Anne, Queen, 28, 91-93
Annetje Jans's farm, 27, 28
Anti-Federalists, 187
Anti-Leislerian Party, 68
Apthorpe, Charles Ward, 156
Apthorpe mansio