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2852 BC: The beginning of the period of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors in China. 2832 BC: Estimated germination of the oldest living tree and organism on earth as of 2020 the Methuselah Tree, the second-oldest known organism. Sprouting in what would become Inyo County, California.
Human History Timeline B.C. Time Period. 200,000 B.C. Homo sapiens, the first modern humans, appear in Africa. 62,000 B.C. Bow and arrows with stone points (arrowheads) are used. 30,000 B.C. Cro-Magnon man is flourishing, moving from the Near East into Europe, lives by hunting and gathering. Cro-Magnon’s painted caves with drawings of the ...
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In 1609, after the Englishman Henry Hudson, working for the Dutch East India Company, sailed up what is now the Hudson River to Albany, excitement finally began to build over the region’s possibilities, and in 1624, the new Dutch West India Company sent the first settlers to what is now Lower Manhattan. The following spring the colonists built a sm...
The earliest immigrants included Walloons, Scandinavians, Germans, Spaniards, and Portuguese Jews, not to mention black slaves from the Caribbean. In 1643 a priest counted 18 languages spoken in this town of 1,500 inhabitants. An atmosphere of religious tolerance even attracted British dissidents from New England. In 1653 Governor Peter Stuyvesa...
Although the city again came under Dutch control in 1673 (again without a fight) and was briefly known as New Orange, a treaty the following year returned it to British control. In the 18th century the town grew into a city of 25,000 and life became more comfortable. British control of the colony of New York was a mixed success. The city was split ...
New York remained a British stronghold throughout the Revolutionary War and only gave up after the final surrender in Virginia in 1781. Two years later England recognized the independence of the American colonies. Washington returned triumphantly to New York and bade farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern. He later became the country’s firs...
January 1: Michael Bloomberg becomes the 108th Mayor of New York. January: New York City is put in a "Drought Warning" after a warm and dry winter. That is upgraded to a "Drought Emergency" in March until the Fall. March 11: The Tribute in Light memorial is unveiled and lit up every day for the next month.
The history of British Columbia covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. Prior to European colonization, the lands encompassing present-day British Columbia were inhabited for millennia by a number of First Nations . Several European expeditions to the region were undertaken in the late 18th ...
First settlement of Ur. c. 3600 BCE. Invention of writing in Sumer at Uruk. 3400 BCE. Priests become the rulers of Mesopotamian cities. c. 3000 BCE - c. 2900 BCE. Mari, the earliest known planned city, is built near the eastern bank of the Euphrates. 2900 BCE - 2334 BCE. The Early Dynastic Period in Sumer.
Aug 27, 2013 · The map was drawn by Joseph Colton, who one of the most prominent map publishers in New York City, with a career spanning three decades from the 1830s to the 1850s. Colton’s production was ...
