1624 ---- Fort Orange established

1652 ---- Beverwyck created as a separate jursidiction

1664 ---- Dutch surrender New Netherland to the Duke of York - Beverwyck becomes Albany!

1673 ---- Dutch regain control of New York for a year

1676 ---- English build a new fort overlooking Albany

1680 ---- Missionaries Danckaerts and Sluyter visit Albany

1683 ---- Albany County created

1686 ---- Albany receives its municipal charter

1697 ---- Census shows city population at 714

1713-1744 ---- Three decades of peace on the New York frontier

1714 ---- city population counted at 1128

1749 ---- Peter Kalm arrives at Albany

1754 ---- The Albany Congress meets at city hall

1754-1763 ---- The French and Indian War

1765 ---- Albany buys the fort and other military buildings from the British

1766 ---- Sons of Liberty orchestrate opposition to the Stamp Act

1766 ---- Docks and seawall built by Albany Corporation

1771 ---- The Albany Gazette, Albany's first newspaper begins publication

1773 ---- Laws and Ordinances of Albany published

1775 ---- First public meeting of the Albany Committee of Correspondence

1776 ---- Tories arrested for drinking to the King's health

1778 ---- Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies prosecute Tories

1785 ---- Stewart Dean sails from Albany to China

1790 ---- Albany population reaches 3,498

1793 ---- Albany's first great fire destroys several blocks in the core city

1799 ---- New York State passes law that will abolish slavery by 1827

1800 ---- Census fixes city population at 5,349

1813 ---- First Albany city directory published

1820 ---- City population reaches 12,630

1823 ---- Funding appropriated for creation of an Albany Basin

1827 ---- Slavery ended by statute in New York State