New York

• Location: USA
• Variant names: New Amsterdam, New Orange

A state and a city, New York City. The Dutch first sailed into the harbour and up the Hudson River in 1609 in search of a route to India. The first settlement in the state was made at present-day Albany in 1624 and Nieuw Amsterdam 'New Amsterdam' after the Dutch capital was established on Manhattan Island (now part of New York City) the following year. In 1626 the Dutch province of New Netherland (which included what is now New York City and parts of Connecticut and New Jersey) bought Manhattan from the Native Americans. In 1664 the British seized the city and renamed it New York after James (1633–1701), Duke of York and Albany, later King James II^†. The Dutch territories surrounding it were given to the Duke of York and Albany by his brother, King Charles II^†; those to the west of the Hudson River were temporarily named Albania while those to the east were called Yorkshire. The Duke passed the western lands on to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret who called them New Jersey; Yorkshire became the state of New York (and this subsequently grew to its present size). In 1673 the Dutch retook the city and renamed it New Orange in honour of the Prince of Orange, stadholder (governor) of the Netherlands at that time, who later became King William III^†. A year later, however, British rule was restored and so was the name New York. New York joined the Union in 1788 as the eleventh state and New York City became the first capital of the USA in 1789; it remained so only until 1790.

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