Renaissance · North America · Politics
1626
Peter Minuit Arrives in New Netherland
1626
A Walloon from Wesel named Peter Minuit took over as director of the struggling New Netherland colony and reorganized its fur trade on a stricter footing. His famous purchase of Manhattan was merely one of many small transactions with Indigenous nations, but it became the founding myth of New York commerce.
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Also in 1626 (2 other events on record)
- Peter Minuit Purchases Manhattan · North America · Politics
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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