Purchase of Manhattan
An island bought from the Lenape for 60 guilders' worth of goods
In 1626 Peter Minuit, director of the colony of New Netherland, bought the island of Manhattan from the Lenape for goods worth 60 guilders. New Amsterdam grew up at the island's southern tip; the English seized it in 1664 and renamed it New York.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1603 Union of the Crowns — 23 years earlier
- 1610 Galileo's telescopic discoveries — 16 years earlier
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — 8 years earlier
- 1640–1668 Portugal regains independence — 14 years later
- 1648 Peace of Westphalia — 22 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1610 Battle of Klushino — 16 years earlier
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — 14 years earlier
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — 13 years earlier
- 1649 Law Code of 1649 — 23 years later
Africa
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — 2 years earlier
Asia
- 1616 Nurhaci founds the Later Jin — 10 years earlier
- 1632–1653 Building of the Taj Mahal — 6 years later
- 1644 Fall of the Ming, rise of the Qing — 18 years later
Alive at the time
- Galileo Galilei (aged 62)
- René Descartes (aged 30)
- Rembrandt (aged 20)
- Francis Bacon (aged 65)
- Johannes Kepler (aged 55)
- Abbas the Great (aged 55)
- Nur Jahan (aged 49)
- Ferdinand II (aged 48)
- Tokugawa Hidetada (aged 47)
- Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba (aged 43)