Enlightenment · North America · War

1664

English Take New Amsterdam

August 27, 1664

An English fleet under Colonel Richard Nicolls anchored off Manhattan and demanded the surrender of New Netherland. Peter Stuyvesant wanted to fight; the burghers refused. The town was handed over without a shot and renamed New York after the king's brother, James, Duke of York. The Dutch commercial capital of North America became English overnight, though it kept its pluralist character.

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Before and after in North America

Before: March 24, 1663: Carolina Charter
After: 1669: Hudson's Bay Company Founded

Before and after in War

Before: 1663: Turkish War with Austria
After: 1665: Second Anglo-Dutch War Begins

Era

Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: New Amsterdam