This article is a timeline of the history of New York City in the state of New York, US. Prior to 1700s 1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano, the first European to see New York Harbor arrives and names it Nouvelle-Angoulême. 1613 – Juan (Jan) Rodriguez became the first documented non-Native American to live 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. 1614 – Dutch settle on Manhattan Island. 1623 – Dutch fort built. 1624 – New Amsterdam is founded by the Dutch West India Company. 1626 – Lenape sell Manhattan Island to Dutch. 1626 – Chattel slavery introduced to North America with the unloading of 11 Africans. 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. 1643 – Kieft's War between Lenape or Wappinger and Dutch colonists. Events partially took place within what would become the five boroughs. 1648 – First fire wardens (Martin Krieger, Thomas Hall, Adrian Wyser, and George Woolsey) appointed by Peter Stuyvesant 1650 – Population: approximately 1,000 1652 – City of New Amsterdam incorporated. 1653 – "Burgher government" established. 1654 – Sephardi Jews arrive from the Iberian peninsula form Congregation Shearith Israel, the oldest Jewish congregation in the U.S. 1656 – Streets laid out. 1657 – Flushing Remonstrance signed laying foundation of religious freedom in America. 1659 – Labor strike by bakers. 1664 – September 24 – New Amsterdam is ceded by Peter Stuyvesant to England who renamed it New York after James, Duke of York. 1665 June 12: Thomas Willett was appointed as the city's first mayor. Wallabout Bay in Brooklyn location of first recorded murder trial - Albert Wantanaer accused of killing Barent Jansen Blom. 1666 – Thomas Delavall was appointed as the city's second mayor. 1667 Town becomes part of England per Treaty of Breda (1667). Thomas Willett became mayor for the second time, and only the third overall mayor of the city. 1668 First yellow fever epidemic in the city. Cornelius Van Steenwyk was appointed as the fourth mayor of the city. 1672 – Boston Post Road constructed. 1673 – The Dutch regain New York, renaming it "New Orange" (from February 1673