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1648 – First fire wardens (Martin Krieger, Thomas Hall, Adrian Wyser, and George Woolsey) appointed by Peter Stuyvesant.Events partially took place within what would become the five boroughs. 1643 – Kieft's War between Lenape or Wappinger and Dutch colonists.1639 - Jonas Bronck, a Swedish settler bought 500 acres of land from the Lenape tribe, creating a settlement called 'Bronck's Land', soon after this settlement would be known as The Bronx.1626 – Chattel slavery introduced to North America with the unloading of 11 Africans.1626 – Lenape sell Manhattan Island to Dutch.1624 – New Amsterdam is founded by the Dutch West India Company.1614 – Dutch settle on Manhattan Island.He is considered the first immigrant, the first person of African heritage, the first person of European heritage, the first merchant, the first Latino, and the first Dominican to settle in Manhattan. 1613 – Juan (Jan) Rodriguez became the first documented non-Native American to live on Manhattan Island.1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano, the first European to see New York Harbor arrives and names it Nouvelle- Angoulême.

Main article: History of New York City (prehistory–1664)

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