Timeline: (Historic Highlights of Pine Plains and Vicinity)
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Historic Highlights of Pine Plains and Vicinity

Sesquicentennial Edition


2008

§3 Timeline

by
Rod Davis


 Contents:
 

Abbreviations

  • DC: Dutchess County
  • FAM: F&AM = Free and Accepted Masons
  • L9P: Little Nine Partners
  • NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • NYC: New York City
  • NYS: New York State
  • PP: Pine Plains
  • TSP: Taconic State Parkway
  • US: United States



Timeline

 

1500

 
Verrazano enters New York Harbor  1524  
 

1600

 
Hendrik Hudson navigates the Hudson River  1609  
  1624 Dutch colonies started in Albany and NYC area 
Peter Minuet purchases Manhattan from Manahatta Indians  1626  
  1640 First book printed in America: Bay Psalm Book 
English seize New Netherlands from the Dutch  1664  
  1675 Bloody Indian war begins: King Philip's War 
  1676 King Philip's War ends 
  1683 Dutchess County formed 
Rombout patent  1685  
  1686 Minisink patent 
Kipsbergen patent  1688  
  1688 Schuyler patent 
Pawling patent (now Staatsburg)  1696  
  1697 Great Nine Partners patent 
Poughkeepsie patent  1697  
  1697 Philipse patent 
 

1700

 
  1701 Dutchess County provisionally annexed to Ulster County 
Rhinebeck patent  1703  
  1703 Beekman patent 
Little Nine Partners patent  1706  
  1708 Queen Anne sends a number of indentured Palatines for production of naval stores 
First Europeans in the L9P area: Sackett  1711  
  1712 Slave revolt in NYC (more) 
Dutchess elects officers; independent from Ulster  1713  
  1719 Dutchess divided into wards: North, Middle, South 
Great Awakening, general revival of evangelical religion  1726  
  1728 Quakers settle in the Oblong from Westchester and CT 
Oblong patent (a/k/a Equivalent Tract)  1731  
  1733 Influenze epidemic in New York City and Philadelphia 
Dutchess divided into seven Precincts: Beekman, Charlotte, Crom Elbo, North, Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, South East Town  1737  
  1740 (PP) Brother Rausch arrives to establish the Moravian Mission to the Indians; First permanent settlement. 
Slave Insurrection in NYC (more)  1741  
  1742 (PP) First North American regular congregation of Christian Indians, composed of ten persons 
(PP) Old Moravian Church erected  1743  
  1744 Little Nine Partners patent divided into 64 lots 
North East Precinct formed from North Precinct  1746  
  1764 (PP)Capt. Thomas "Baron" Ross dies 
Boston Massacre  1770  
  1772 (PP) Morris Graham stone house completed 
(PP) Graham-Brush house erected (more)  1773  
  1774 Rhode Island abolishes slavery 
  1775 American Revolutionary War begins 
  1776 Declaration of Independence 
Johannes Rowe, a German, purchases 911 acres from chancellor Livingston, the first sale made to an individual.  1780  
  1781 American Revolutionary War ends 
Articles of Confederation take effect  1781  
  1783 Treaty of Paris grants America unconditional independence 
Massachusetts abolishes slavery  1783  
  1785 Poughkeepsie Journal begins publication; now oldest NYS paper, 3rd oldest national 
Regular stagecoach routes established between Albany, New York City and Boston  1785  
  1785 Temple Lodge established in North East Precinct, first Masonic lodge in L9P 
Charlotte Precinct divided into Clinton Precinct and Washington Precinct  1786  
  1787 Federalist Papers first published, NY Independent Journal 
General Organization Act reorganizes DC into townships
Northeast Township formed, includes Pine Plains and Milan 
1788  
  1788 NY ratifies Federal Constitution at Poughkeepsie, 11th state to do so 
U.S. Constitution in effect  1789  
  1789 George Washington inaugural 
US Bill of Rights adopted  1791  
  1793 Eli Whitley invents the cotton gin 
(PP) Union Library opens, first Dutchess public library  1798  
 

1800

 
Federal government moved to Washington, D.C.  1800  
  1802 (PP) Church St relocated to the south as part of the Dutchess and Ulster Turnpike 
U.S. Milirary Academy established at West Point  1803  
  1804 Vice President Aaron Burr slays Alexander Hamilton in a duel 
Fauconier patent (now Hyde Park)  1805  
  1807 First practical steamboat: Robert Fulton, NYC to Albany in 32 hrs 
Importation of slaves outlawed  1808  
  1808 (PP) Warren Masonic Lodge No. 157 
  1812 War of 1812 begins 
  1812 Putnam County set off from Dutchess 
  1815 War of 1812 ends 
  1818 Milan taken off from Northeast 
Hudson River School of painters comes to public attention  1823  
  1823 Pine Plains taken off from Northeast; first town election 
Erie Canal opens  1825  
  1829 (PP)Graham-Brush house sold to Alfred Brush 
Mormon Church organized in Fayette, NY  1830  
  1835 (PP) Methodist church erected 
(PP) Baptist church erected; destroyed by tornado, rebuilt  1837  
  1844 First telegraph message, Washington to Baltimore, by S.F.B. Morse 
Elias Howe invents sewing machine  1846  
  1848 Gold discovered in California 
(PP) William Eno purchases land and lays out Evergreen Cemetery  1852  
  1858 First Atlantic telegraph cable laid 
Moravian Historical Society pilgrimage to Shekomeko  1858  
  1861 (PP) Episcopal church erected 
Vassar College founded  1861  
  1861 Civil War begins 
Draft riots in NYC  1863  
  1863 Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 
  1865 Civil War ends 
  1866 (PP) Stissing Lodge FAM organized 
U.S. purchaes Alaska from Russia  1867  
  1873 The Panic of 1873 (more) 
(PP)Lamp District organized  1874  
  1876 A.G. Bell invents telephone 
(PP) Seymour Smith Academy opens (more)  1879  
  1879 F. W. Woolworth opens first 5¢ & 10¢ store in Utica, NY 
Brooklyn Bridge opens, world's longest suspension bridge  1883  
  1888 The Great Blizzard of ´88 
Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge over the Hudson River completed (more)  1888  
  1895 Pine Plains Hose Co. organized (more) 
(PP)Water District organized  1895  
  1899 Central New England Railway Company (CNE) formed; takes over extant Dutchess lines 
 

1900

 
  1903 Wright Brothers, first flight 
General Slocum burns, sinks in East River, 1,021 dead  1904  
  1904 First section of NYC subway system opens 
Henry Ford introduces the Model T  1908  
  1910 Railroad abandonments begin in DC 
Triangle Shirtwaist Co. file in NYC  1911  
  1912 (PP) Roman Catholic Church erected 
HMS Titanic disaster, 1,503 dead  1912  
  1915 HMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine, 1,198 dead 
  1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I 
  1918 WW I ends 
Prohibition begins  1919  
  1920 19th Amendment enfranchises women 
(PP) Presbyterian church struck by lightning, burns down; rebuilt next year  1922  
  1927 Lindbergh: first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight 
CNE merges with New York, New Haven and Hartford system  1927  
  1929 Stock market crash on 29 Oct, "Black Tuesday"; The Great Depression begins. (more) 
Empire State Building opens; world's tallest building  1931  
  1932 Franklyn D. Roosevelt elected to first presidental term 
(PP) Seymour Smith Academy torn down, Pine Plains Central School erected in its place  1933  
Prohibition ends  1933  
Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY  1936  
  1938 (PP) NYS Rte Highway route sign extended north from PP to Bell Pond in Columbia County (more) 
  1939 Great Depression ends 
  1939 New York World's Fair 
First peacetime draft
Forty-hour work week established 
1940  
  1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor; US enters World War II 
  1945 US drops two atomic bombs on Japan
Japan surrenders 
  1947 AF Capt. Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier in X-1 rocket plane 
Soviet blockade of Berlin, US airlift  1948  
  1949 NATO organized 
TSP Highway route sign reaches NYS Rte Highway route sign in Milan (more)  1949  
  1950 Korean War starts 
Rosenbergs executed at Sing Sing for espionage  1953  
  1953 Korean War armistice signed 
Brown vs Board of Education ends "separate but equal" segregation  1954  
  1955 Hurricanes Connie and Dianne cause widespread DC flooding 
First transatlantic telephone cable  1956  
  1957 Soviets launch Sputnik, first artificial Earth satellite 
First domestic jet airline passenger service, NYC-Miami  1958  
  1961 Little Nine Partners Historical Society formed (more) 
John Glenn is first American to orbit the Earth  1962  
  1963 President John F. Kennedy assassinated 
New York World's Fair  1964  
  1964 Vietnam War starts 
Senator Robert F. Kennedy assassinated  1968  
  1969 Neil Armstrong, US Astronaut, first man to set foot on the moon 
Sharon Tate and others slain by Charles Manson followers  1969  
  1969 Woodstock Music Festival, Bethel, NY 
  1973 End of Vietnam War 
  1974 Nixon resigns 
Three Mile Island nuclear accident  1979  
  1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid
US defeats Russian hocky team 
Mt St Helens erupts
Beatle John Lennon assassinated 
1980  
  1986 Space shuttle Challenger disaster;
Explodes on launch 
(PP) Graham-Brush house and plot conveyed to Little Nine Partners Historical Society  1997  
  1998 (PP) Arsonists set fire in Graham-Brush house; roof damage 
 

2000

 
  2001 9/11 terrorist attack brings down NYC World Trade towers 
Space shuttle Columbia disaster;
Disintegrates on reentry 
2003  


This page was inspired by the Town of Brookfield Historical Timeline, a page on the Brookfield Museum and Historical Society site, http://www.brookfieldcthistory.org/page_historical_timeline.html.


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