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Some important dates in early Albany history - 1624 ---- Fort Orange established 1652 ---- Beverwyck created as a separate jurisdiction 1664 ---- Dutch surrender New Netherland to the Duke of York - Beverwyck becomes Albany! 1673 ---- Dutch regain control of New York for a year 1676 ---- English build a new fort overlooking Albany French map 1680 ---- Missionaries Danckaerts and Sluyter visit Albany 1683 ---- Albany County created 1686 ---- Albany receives its municipal charter Overview 1697 ---- Census shows city population at 714 1713-1744 ---- Three decades of peace on the New York frontier 1714 ---- city population counted at 1128 1749 ---- Peter Kalm arrives at Albany 1754 ---- The Albany Congress meets at city hall 1754-1763 ---- The French and Indian War 1765 ---- Albany buys the fort and other military buildings from the British 1766 ---- Sons of Liberty orchestrate opposition to the Stamp Act 1766 ---- Docks and seawall built by Albany Corporation 1771 ---- The Albany Gazette, Albany's first newspaper begins publication 1773 ---- Laws and Ordinances of Albany published 1775 ---- First public meeting of the Albany Committee of Correspondence 1776 ---- Tories arrested for drinking to the King's health 1778 ---- Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies prosecute Tories 1780 ---- New York State Legislature first meets in Albany 1782-83 ---- General George Washington visits Albany 1785 ---- Stewart Dean sails from Albany to China 1788 ---- Albany celebrates ratification of the Federal Constitution 1790 ---- Albany population reaches 3,498 1793 ---- Albany's first great fire destroys several blocks in the core city map - 1794 1799 ---- New York State passes law that will abolish slavery by 1827 1800 ---- Census fixes city population at 5,349 1813 ---- First Albany city directory published 1820 ---- City population reaches 12,630 1823 ---- Funding appropriated for creation of an Albany Basin 1827 ---- Slavery ended by statute in New York State This was the first online timeline produced by the Colonial Albany Project during the initial phase (early 2000s) of website development. It includes some dates important to the early history of the Albany community and is designed to facilitate access to the substantive parts of the site. Additional, more focused timelines will follow. See also: The compendious compilation entitled The Albany handbook, a popular guide to dates published in 1884. That chronology utilizes the word "first" more than a hundred times. [One thing this writer has learned over the last fifty years is to avoid that descriptor. last updated 5/1/18 |