=1613.= Hollanders build on Manhattan and Nassau Islands. =1617.= Iroquois form an alliance with the Dutch. =1623.= Jesse De Forest and the Walloons settle and found New York City.—Fort Orange built.—Settlement at Albany. =1630.= Patroon Kilian Van Rensselaer.—Arrival of Arendt Van Curler. =1642.= Van Curler enters the Mohawk Valley and ransoms Isaac Jogues. =1661.= Van Curler founds the city of Schenectady. =1664.= English Conquest of New Netherlands. =1667.= Kryn leads the Caughnawaga Indians to Canada. =1690.= Massacre at Schenectady. =1710.= Palatine Germans in New York. =1713.= The Tuscaroras join the Iroquois Confederacy. =1715.= Sir William Johnson born. =1722.= Palatines settle in Mohawk Valley.—Oswego founded. =1738.= Johnson settled at Warrensburgh, N. Y. =1740.= Johnson made head of the Indian Department. =1754.= The Congress and Council at Albany. =1755.= Battle of Lake George. =1757.= Massacre at German Flats. =1759.= Surrender of Niagara to Johnson.—Fall of Quebec and the French power in America. =1763.= Conspiracy of Pontiac.—Johnstown founded, and Johnson Hall built. =1768.= Treaty at Fort Stanwix. =1770.= January 18, First bloodshed of the Revolution. =1771.= First battle of the Revolution at Alamance, N. C. =1772.= Division of Albany County.—Johnstown made the county-seat of Tryon County. =1774.= Death of Sir William Johnson. =1777.= Battle of Oriskany. =1778.= Massacre at Cherry Valley. =1779.= Brant at Minnisink.—General Sullivan’s Expedition against the Six Nations. =1782.= New York’s Western lands transferred to the nation. =1783.= Tories banished from the Mohawk Valley. TABLE OF CONTENTS.