New Amsterdam (Dutch New York). While the Netherlands was a small country, the Dutch Empire was quite large so emigrants leaving the mother country had a wide variety of choices. In November 1674 the Dutch flag waved in Nieuw Oranje (New York) for the last time. Quite a bit of real estate. The siege of Leningrad, also known as ...read more, In a controversial executive action, President Gerald Ford pardons his disgraced predecessor Richard M. Nixon for any crimes he may have committed or participated in while in office. [citation needed], As of 1990, November 16 is "Dutch-American Heritage Day". Before leaving for New Netherland, several people had wills drawn up by public notaries in Amsterdam. This colony is composed of about one hundred persons, who reside in some twenty-five or thirty houses built along the river, each of them to be found most convenient. The Dutch-American historian and journalist Hendrik Willem van Loon wrote in 1933 a work of alternative history entitled "If the Dutch Had Kept Nieuw Amsterdam" (in If, Or History Rewritten, edited by J. C. Squire, 1931, Simon & Schuster). List of Portuguese colonial forts and possessions, Maramuca: an exercise in the combined use of Portuguese records and oral tradition: the History of the Mwanamutapa Empire, Isle of Pines: Prison ruins and Cemetery of the Deported (Cemetery of the Communards) in New Caledonia. [according to whom? The only thing is that the article must be original and not previously published on other websites. In the principal house lives the patron’s agent; the minister has his apartment, in which religious service is performed. The factorij became a settlement outside Fort Amsterdam. Scans of early records are increasingly becoming available online. There were also political pressures at the time that favored mass emigrations of Catholics. As over 2,000 Filipino-American farm workers refused to go to work picking grapes in the valley north of Bakersfield, California, they set into motion a chain of events that would ...read more, One of the world’s most beloved works art, “David,” the 17-foot-tall, 12,000-pound marble masterpiece by Michelangelo Buonarroti, is unveiled to the public in Florence, Italy’s Piazza della Signoria. In 1624, it became a provincial extension of the Dutch Republicand was designated as th… 2 Russia has most of its territory in Asia, but the vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here. The forest furnishing many large pines, they make boards by means of their saw mills, which they have established for this purpose. In 1664, New Amsterdam passed to English control, and English and Dutch settlers lived together peacefully. Examples include the article "the" (de in Dutch), the words "book" (boek), "house" (huis), "pen" (pen), and, "street" (straat), among others. Secondly, a colony sent here by Renselaers, who is the patron. Do you need a genealogist in the Netherlands to help you with your research? The mouth of the river, which some people call Nassau or Great North River, to distinguish it from another one, which they call the South River and which I think is called Maurice River on some maps, which I have recently seen, is at 40 degrees, 30 minutes. […. During the early nineteenth century, large numbers of Dutch farmers, forced by high taxes and low wages, started immigrating to America. Een district van New York City waarvan de naam (Duivelsspuit) Copyright © 1998-2020. See Tulip Festival for additional explanations of some of these festivals. The 17th century Dutch colony of Nieuw-Nederland was situated between the South River (Delaware River) and the Fresh River (Connecticut River) with his center on the North or Great River (Hudson River) practically in the present US States of New York, Delaware, Connecticut and New Jersey. They are the administrative records of the colony, unreadable by most scholars. Adaptation of place names between the languages is common, as was the case of New York, where several landmarks like Conyne Eylandt (Rabbit Island) became more suitable to Anglophones (Coney Island). By 1951 American consulates in the Netherlands registered 33,500 requests and had waiting times of 3 to 5 years. 2000. A Dutch Festival is also held at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York; and a Holland Festival[29] in Long Beach, California. Dutch settlers named the island Staten Eylandt in honor of the States General, the governing body of the United Provinces. [10] Troops from the fort used the triangle between the Heerestraat and what came to be known as Whitehall Street for marching drills. [contradictory] This was swiftly followed by the Second Anglo-Dutch War, between England and the Dutch Republic. The Patriots ...read more, On September 8, 1915, a German Zeppelin commanded by Heinrich Mathy, one of the great airship commanders of World War I, hits Aldersgate in central London, killing 22 people and causing £500,000 worth of damage.