1655–60 – Lenape attack and burn the last Cornelius Melyn/David de Vries attempt at settlement, capturing or killing the Dutch settlers.
1657 – Natives sign a deed to Lubbertus van Dincklage for the purchase of Staten Island.[5] This was annulled months later when the Dutch didn't deliver the promised goods.[6]
May: Huguenot-Walloon-New Netherland 300th Anniversary of Religious Freedom in 1924 celebrated in
Huguenot with 2,000 spectators attending dedication of a church as a National Memorial to the Huguenots.[28]
1957 –
Queen Elizabeth visits the Island by train en route from Washington DC to Manhattan, the first Royal to visit since
William IV during the American Revolution.
2020 – July: Buddy, a
German Shepherd and the first dog diagnosed with
COVID-19, dies.[48] By year-end, the virus kills approximately 1,300 Island residents.[49]
^
abcRichard Mather Bayles (1887), History of Richmond County (Staten Island), New York from its discovery to the present time, New York: L.E. Preston,
OL7061850M
^Ira K. Morris (1898), Morris's Memorial History of Staten Island, New York, New York: Memorial Pub. Co.
v.1,
v.2 (1900)
^Proceedings of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of Richmond County, Staten Island, New York, New York, 1883,
OL23327374M{{
citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link)
^"On Staten Island, the Fight to Save a Proud Past", The New York Times, September 19, 2009
^Kenneth M Gold; Lori Robin Weintrob (2011). Discovering Staten Island: a 350th anniversary commemorative history. Charleston, South Carolina: History Press.
ISBN9781609491703.
John Disturnell, ed. (1877),
"Staten Island", Summer Resorts and Watering Places ... within fifty miles of the city of New York, New York: J. Wiley & Sons
"Borough of Richmond", Appleton's Dictionary of New York and Vicinity (27th ed.), Appleton, 1905
Ernest Ingersoll (1906),
"Greater New York: Staten Island", Rand, McNally & Co.'s Handy Guide to New York City, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and other districts included in the enlarged city (20th ed.), Chicago: Rand, McNally,
OCLC29277709
Frank Bergen Kelley; City History Club of New York (1913),
"Borough of Richmond", Historical Guide to the City of New York (2nd ed.), New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company,
OCLC4723529
1655–60 – Lenape attack and burn the last Cornelius Melyn/David de Vries attempt at settlement, capturing or killing the Dutch settlers.
1657 – Natives sign a deed to Lubbertus van Dincklage for the purchase of Staten Island.[5] This was annulled months later when the Dutch didn't deliver the promised goods.[6]
May: Huguenot-Walloon-New Netherland 300th Anniversary of Religious Freedom in 1924 celebrated in
Huguenot with 2,000 spectators attending dedication of a church as a National Memorial to the Huguenots.[28]
1957 –
Queen Elizabeth visits the Island by train en route from Washington DC to Manhattan, the first Royal to visit since
William IV during the American Revolution.
2020 – July: Buddy, a
German Shepherd and the first dog diagnosed with
COVID-19, dies.[48] By year-end, the virus kills approximately 1,300 Island residents.[49]
^
abcRichard Mather Bayles (1887), History of Richmond County (Staten Island), New York from its discovery to the present time, New York: L.E. Preston,
OL7061850M
^Ira K. Morris (1898), Morris's Memorial History of Staten Island, New York, New York: Memorial Pub. Co.
v.1,
v.2 (1900)
^Proceedings of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of Richmond County, Staten Island, New York, New York, 1883,
OL23327374M{{
citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link)
^"On Staten Island, the Fight to Save a Proud Past", The New York Times, September 19, 2009
^Kenneth M Gold; Lori Robin Weintrob (2011). Discovering Staten Island: a 350th anniversary commemorative history. Charleston, South Carolina: History Press.
ISBN9781609491703.
John Disturnell, ed. (1877),
"Staten Island", Summer Resorts and Watering Places ... within fifty miles of the city of New York, New York: J. Wiley & Sons
"Borough of Richmond", Appleton's Dictionary of New York and Vicinity (27th ed.), Appleton, 1905
Ernest Ingersoll (1906),
"Greater New York: Staten Island", Rand, McNally & Co.'s Handy Guide to New York City, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and other districts included in the enlarged city (20th ed.), Chicago: Rand, McNally,
OCLC29277709
Frank Bergen Kelley; City History Club of New York (1913),
"Borough of Richmond", Historical Guide to the City of New York (2nd ed.), New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company,
OCLC4723529