4 May 1626
Discovery of Manhattan Island
Dutch explorer Peter Minuit lands on what is now Manhattan Island
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Manhattan Island in Netherlands. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Dutch explorer Peter Minuit lands on what is now Manhattan Island
Peter Schager of Amsterdam informs the States General that the ship "The Arms of Amsterdam" had arrived with a cargo of furs and timber from New Netherlands and that the settlers there had bought the Island of Manhatten for 60 guilders
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