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Brooklyn

borough of New York City, New York, United States

11 dated entries naming Brooklyn, drawn from 11 separate years between 1776 CE and 1989 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1776August 27 – American Revolution: Battle of Long Island – George Washington's troops are defeated in Brooklyn by the British, under William Howe.source

19th century

  • 1855July 4 – Walt Whitman's poetry collection Leaves of Grass is published in Brooklyn.source
  • 1862January 30 – American Civil War: The first U.S. ironclad warship, , is launched in Brooklyn.source
  • 1890The folding carton box is invented by Robert Gair, a Brooklyn printer who developed production of paper-board boxes in 1879.source
  • 1898January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island.source

20th century

  • 1918November 1 – Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 dead.source
  • 1925March 1 – New York City Fire Department Rescue 2 is put in service in Brooklyn.source
  • 1933July 22 – Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world, landing at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, after traveling eastbound 15596 mi km in 7 days 18 hours 45 minutes.source
  • 1941January 6 – The keel of battleship is laid at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn.source
  • 1979July 12 – Carmine Galante, boss of the Bonanno crime family, is assassinated in Brooklyn.source
  • 1989August 23 – Murder of Yusef Hawkins in a shooting in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York, sparking racial tensions between African Americans and Italian Americans.source

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