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CHRONOLOGY OF NEW YORK CITY'S FACTUAL "FIRST" 1524-1999
Researched and Compiled by Miriam Medina
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*Please note this is a work in progress. New
researched information will be added periodically.
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1) America's first cricket tournament was held in New York
City. *(a.com)
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1) Trinity Church opened its first chapel, St. George's on
Beekman Street, to accommodate its growing and prosperous
congregation.
2) November 30 -- William Livingston, William Smith, Jr. and
John Morin Scott issue first number of the Independent
Reflector, New York City's first periodical, consciously
modelled after English Whig periodicals. *(beatl)
C) In 1752 the " The NewYork Mercury" was founded by Hugh
Gaine, on Hanover Square at the sign of the "Bible and
Crown," and became the best newspaper of the colonies. * (NYS
History)
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1) Lewis Hallam, Anglo-American actor and manager of the
first professional theatrical company in the United States.
In 1753 he built the first theater in New York City, on
Nassau St., where he presented Elizabethan and Restoration
dramas, farces, and operettas. * (Bartleby)
2) The Presbyterians established a new journal in 1753,
called the Independent Reflector, in which their side of the
college controversy was fully argued. * (hocny)
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1) The Society Library had been started in 1754, and
incorporated in 1772, the books being stored in the old City
Hall in Wall Street. During the Revolution, the library was
looted by the British soldiers, and the books hawked about
the streets, and sold for drink, so that few of them
remained when the Americans came into their own again. The
Society started once more in 1793 in Nassau Street, removing
later to Chambers Street, where it remained until 1840, when
it removed to the above site on Broadway. * (mccny)
2) Columbia University established by Royal Charter on
October 31, 1754, as the College of the Providence of New
York, was known from the beginning as King's College. The
first president was Rev. Samuel Johnson, D.D. * (Concise)
3) Hallam's company of players, the first on record played
at New York in 1754. * (A&C)
4) November 2 -- Lieutenant Governor James DeLancey signed
charter on behalf of King George II; Designated "The College
of the Province of New York, in the City of New York...
known by the name of King's College;"
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1) May 7 -- First meeting of Governors of King's College --
26 members present.
2) The "Province Arms," in the Broadway, near Oswego
Market." The first event to start it on its long and
brilliant career was a public dinner given in 1755 to the
new governor, Sir Charles Hardy. *(Bwy)
3) The first "packet" running between New York and Staten
Island began its voyages semiweekly in 1755, and the
ferrymen summoned the passengers by the blast of a horn.
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1) August 23 -- Cornerstone of King's College building laid,
corner of Murray (N) and Church (E) Streets, near what is
now West Broadway; *(Bwy)
2) The Saint Andrew's Society at New York in the Province of
New York" was founded on November 19, 1756. *Heritage
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1) June 21st -- First commencement exercise of King's
College, held at St. George's Chapel, five AB graduates. * (beatl)
2) The history of the New York Quarantine is briefly this:
In 1758 the first hospital and offices were placed by the
Colonial Legislature upon Bedloe's Island
3) The city was honored by Benjamin West, the first american
born painter to attain world celebrity. * (NYS History) Vol:
V
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1) In 1759, the first insurance office was the Tontine
Coffee house. It was where the gathering of shippers whose
fortunes were tossing on the sea in quaint sailing vessels,
came to ask some citizen to underwrite them personally. *(NYS
History)
2) About 1759 public opinion became so strongly aroused
against the payment of tolls that a bridge, called the
Free Bridge was built by public subscription at or near the
site of the present farmer's or Fordham Bridge. *(borobx)
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1) The development of Broadway, the first section , from
Vesey Street to Duane; was surveyed in 1760 by Mr. Marschalk,
a city surveyor. *(Bwy)
2) The Provincial Assembly enacted the first New York
Statute regulating the practice of medicine in 1760. * (NYS
History) Vol: V
3) The house at No. 1 Broadway, was built in 1760 by Colonel
Kennedy, afterward Earl of Cassilis, and occupied in turn by
the American leaders, including Washington, and by the
English, including Cornwallis, Howe and Sir Henry Clinton,
was the scene of Major Andre's last interview with the
British commander before his fatal journey to West Point. *
(Historic Towns)
4) In 1760, the New York General Assembly provided a system
of examination and Licensing for those who intended to
practise medicine or surgery with the province.* (eafd)
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1) City Island was first settled in 1761 .
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1) First street lamps installed with City funds.An act of
the assembly gave authority to provide means of lighting the
city,
and in that year the first lamps and posts were purchased.
2) King's College opens a Grammar School to prepare students
for admission to King's College. *(beatl)
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1) The old Moravian church at New Dorp, Staten Island was
built in 1763. (NYS History) Vol. I
2) Fraunces Tavern at 54 Pearl Street (at Broad) in New York
City. The first announcement advertising the establishment
appeared in the New York weekly "Independent Gazette" of
April 4, 1763. Fraunces Tavern takes its name from Samuel
Fraunces, a west Indian of French antecedents who was the
Tavern's proprietor and a steward to George Washington. *
(Museums)
3) The first international sports hero, boxer Bill Richmond
of Staten Island, was born August 5, 1763. * (50S)
4) New York Packet and American Advertiser: This was
established in 1763 and published by Samuel Loudon.
5) The Rhinelander's Sugar-house on Rose and Duane streets
in New York City was erected in 1763, demolished in 1892.
Rhinelander Building erected on site 1893. * (NYS History)
6) New York City's first chamber of Commerce was established
in New York.
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1) Greenhouse was erected by James Beekman in New York City.
* (fff)
2) September, 1764. The new pillory, with a large wooden
cage behind it, was erected between the new Jail (the
present Hall of Records) and this Work-house (the site of
the City Hall) the cage being for disorderly boys who
publicly broke the Sabbath.* (Shannon)
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1) The British Parliament enacted the Stamp Act. A meeting
of the merchants of the city was called at Burns's Coffee
House on Broadway, and the first non-importation agreement
was signed, October 31, 1765.
2) The church edifice, or more properly, St. Paul's Chapel,
between Fulton and Vesey street was erected by Trinity
Corporation upon part of its farm in 1765, and opened the
following year when the Rev. Mr. Auchmuty preached the
dedication sermon. It is one of the three buildings of a
public, or semi-public, character, dating from
pre-Revolutionary days that still stand upon the island of
Manhattan*.(bwy)
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1) Irish soldiers in the British army stage New York City's
first Saint Patrick's Day parade.
2) June -- Literary Society organized to instill scholarly
competition among the students of King's College by awarding
medals and books. Society folded in 1772.
3) Gershom Mendes Seixas-Rabbi , Appointed minister of
Shearith Israel in New York, in 1766. *EOJK
4) The Methodists rank among the oldest denominations in the
city having been organized in 1766 by Philip Embury, a local
preacher from Ireland. * (Gaslight)
5) New York Journal: In 1766 John Holt established the "New
York Journal, or General Advertiser," which in the course of
the same year was united with "Parker's Gazette." John Holt
edited the first Whig newspaper published in New York City,
and managed it with considerable ability and courage. * (NYS
History)
6) In 1766, St. Paul's chapel, the oldest church surviving
in Manhattan was built as a subsidiary to Trinity Church. *
(eafd)
7) St. Paul's Chapel near the Park, between Fulton and
Vesey streets was erected and first opened for worship,
October 30th, 1766. It is a fine structure, of a reddish
grey stone, 113 feet long, and 73 feet wide. Continuing a
collegiate charge with Trinity Church, its ecclesiastical
affairs are consequently merged in that.* (hocadnyc)
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