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Brooklyn

borough of New York City, New York, United States

17 dated entries naming Brooklyn, drawn from 16 separate years between 1683 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.

Also written as Brooklyn, New York, Kings County, New York in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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17th century

  • 1683November 1 – The English crown colony of the Province of New York is subdivided into 12 counties: Albany, Dutchess, Orange, Ulster, and Westchester (upstate); Kings, New York County, Queens, Richmond (within New York City); Suffolk (eastern Long Island), and two areas not in New York state, Dukes County (now in Massachusetts) and Cornwall County (now 11 counties in Maine).source

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

  • 1845January 1 – The Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn is completed.source
  • 1851House sparrows first released in the U.S., in Brooklyn.source
  • 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, USS Monitor, is launched in Brooklyn.source
  • 1863October 5 – The Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Rail Road starts operations in Brooklyn, New York, making it the oldest right-of-way on the New York City Subway, the largest rapid transit system in the United States, and one of the largest in the world.source
  • 1863October 5 – The Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Rail Road starts operations in Brooklyn, New York; this is now the oldest right-of-way on the New York City Subway, the largest rapid transit system in the United States and one of the largest in the world.source
  • 1871April 10 – In Brooklyn, New York, P. T. Barnum opens his three-ring circus, hailing it as "The Greatest Show on Earth".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
  • 192118 November – Baruch Ben Haim, Sephardic rabbi, Chief Rabbi of the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn for 55 years (died 2005)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 15,596 mi in 7 days 18 hours 45 minutes.source
  • 1941January 6 – The keel of battleship USS Missouri is laid at the New York Navy Yard 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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