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The Town of Gravesend is charted by the English. It is the only one of six original towns that was not settled by the Dutch.
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The Town of Breukelen (Brooklyn) is chartered by the Dutch West India Company.
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The Town of Flatlands (New Amersfoort) is chartered.
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The Dutch West India Company acquires Bay Ridge (called Yellow Hook then) from the Nyack Indians.
The Town of Flatbush (Midwout or Vlacke Bosch) is chartered. |
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Coney Island (Conye Islant) is acquired from the Indians.
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The Town of New Utrecht is chartered.
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The Town of Bushwick (Boswick) is chartered.
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J.M. Schenck builds his house (now in BMA).
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New Lots and Flatbush are separated by Governor Edmund Andro's charter.
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The Towns of Brooklyn, Bushwick, Flatbush, Flatlands, Gravesend and New Utrecht join to make up Kings County.
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Caesar Foster is freed from enslavement - the first recorded act in Brooklyn. |
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Steam ferry service begins between Brooklyn and New York.
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Brooklyn's oldest African-American church, Bridge Street A.W.M.E. Church, is founded. |
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Francis Guy finishes his painting, "A Winter Scene in Brooklyn".
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Slavery is made illegal in New York State. Weeksville is settled by free African-Americans.
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William Thomas becomes the first black landowner in Brooklyn. |
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The Town of Brooklyn becomes the City of Brooklyn. |
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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle begins being published.
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Brooklyn Academy of Music is incorporated.
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Brooklyn becomes the third largest city in America. Its population is 279,122. |
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Prospect Park opens.
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Eastern Parkway, the world's first six-lane parkway, is completed.
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Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
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The frankfurter is introduced in Coney Island.
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Brooklyn Dodgers are formed as a minor league team.
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The first roller coaster is built in Coney Island.
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Brooklyn Public Library is established.
Brooklyn Museum of Art opens. |
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The City of Brooklyn becomes part of New York City. |
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The Brooklyn Children's Museum (the world's first museum for children) opens.
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The IRT, New York's first subway, connects Manhattan to Brooklyn through the Joralemon Street tunnel.
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Brooklyn Botanic Barden opens.
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Ebbets Field Stadium for the Dodgers opens.
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The Brownsville Children's Library (the world's first library for children) opens. |
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The Cyclone roller coaster ride opens at Coney Island.
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Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American player in major league baseball.
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The Brooklyn Dodgers play their last game at Ebbets Field. They leave for California and become the L.A. Dodgers.
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Brooklyn Heights is designated as New York's first historic district.
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The first West Indian American Carnival Day parade is held along Eastern Parkway.
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The Fulton Mall is built in downtown Brooklyn. |
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Brooklyn is still New York City's most populous borough. with 2,300,664 people, it is the equivalent of the fourth largest city in the nation after New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. |
