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 1524:
Area explored by Giovanni Verrazano
1609: Henry Hudson arrives, travels up his namesake Hudson River
1618: Dutch trading post established at Bergen
1638: Swedish settlement built on the lower Delaware
1664: England acquires New Jersey from the Netherlands
1702: New Jersey becomes a Crown Colony, and is put under supervision of
the governor of New York
1736: New Jersey forms its own government
1763: William Franklin, son of Benjamin Franklin becomes governor
1770s: Major battles are fought here during the Revolutionary War
1776: George Washington and his soldiers defeat the British at Trenton
1787: New Jersey became the 3rd U.S. State
1804: New legislation states that any person born in New Jersey after
July 4, 1804, are considered free.
1838: Samuel Morse demonstrates his telegraph machine
1846: First baseball game played at Hoboken
1858: Dinosaur skeletons found near Haddonfield are the first discovered
in North America
1861: North Jersey Brigade is the first to begin the defense of
Washington during the Civil War
1869: The first intercollegiate football game is played at New Brunswick
1879: Thomas Edison invents the light blub
1912: The former governor of New Jersey - Woodrow Wilson - is elected
U.S. President.
1921: The first Miss America Contest is held in Atlantic City
1931: The George Washington Bridge - between New York and New Jersey -
opens to great fanfare
1933: The Hindenburg dirigible crashes in Lakehurst, killing dozens
1976: Meadowlands opens, and major league teams relocate there
1978: Casinos and legalized gambling open in Atlantic City
1994: Christine Whitman becomes the state's first female governor
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