1614. United New Netherland Company organized 1614. Fort Manhattan built 1621. West India Company organized 1626. Peter Minuit Governor Fort Amsterdam built 1629. Charter adopted under which the Manors were established 1633. Van Twillier Governor 1636. Annetje Jans' Farm laid out 1638. William Kieft appointed Governor 1641. First Cattle Fair held on Bowling Green 1642. Stadt Huys built Church built in the Fort 1643. Beginning of the Indian wars 1644. Fence erected, which was later replaced by a wall, and still later by Wall Street 1646. Peter Stuyvesant appointed Governor 1647. Kieft and Dominie Bogardus drowned in the wreck of the Princess while returning to Holland 1652. City of New Amsterdam incorporated 1653. New Amsterdam made a walled city by the building of a wall across the island 1655. Stuyvesant subdues the Swedes on the Delaware Indian war breaks out again 1664. English capture New Amsterdam and it becomes New York Richard Nicolls Governor 1667. Francis Lovelace appointed Governor 1670. Lovelace establishes the first Exchange 1673. First mail route established The Dutch retake New York 1674. English again in possession of New York Sir Edmund Andros Governor Captain Manning disgraced for surrendering New York to the Dutch 1678. Bolting Act created 1681. Andros recalled 1682. Thomas Dongan Governor 1686. Dongan Charter granted to the city 1688. New York and New England united, and Sir Edmund Andros Governor 1689. William III. becomes King of England Jacob Leisler assumes title of Lieutenant-Governor and takes charge of New York 1691. Henry Sloughter Governor Leisler and Milborne executed Governor Sloughter dies 1692. Benjamin Fletcher Governor 1693. Bradford establishes first printing press in the colony 1696. Trinity Church built Bolting Act repealed Lord Bellomont appointed Governor Captain Kidd sails to search for pirates 1697. Streets first lighted at night 1699. City wall demolished and Wall Street laid out City Hall built in Wall Street 1700. First library opened 1701. Captain Kidd executed in England Lord Bellomont dies 1702. Lord Cornbury Governor 1705. Queen's Farm granted to Trinity Church by Queen Anne 1708. Lord Lovelace Governor 1710. Robert Hunter Governor 1711. Public slave market established 1714. First public clock set on City Hall in Wall Street 1715. Lewis Morris appointed Chief-Justice 1720. William Burnet Governor 1725. Bradford prints first newspaper in city 1728. John Montgomery Governor 1729. First Jewish cemetery established 1731. First Fire Department organized Montgomery dies 1732. William Cosby Governor 1733. James De Lancey made Chief-Justice 1735. Peter Zenger tried for libel 1736. Governor Cosby dies 1741. Negro Plot 1743. George Clinton Governor