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•  AUGUST:    On August 29 of this year the British Duke of York's forces are successful in capturing New Amsterdam in North America from the Dutch; this is part of their overall conquest of the Dutch colony of New Netherland. New Netherland is then renamed New York, and includes the modern United States  states of New York, New Jersey, Vermont, the southeast portion of Pennsylvania, and Delaware.  (Source:  York Shire (Province of New York)  (3 November 2023) In Wikipedia at York Shire (Province of New York) - Wikipedia ).

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• NO SPECIFIC DATE:    At some time during this year, even before the capture of New Amsterdam from the Dutch in North America, the English Duke of York gives New Jersey, the region between the Hudson River and the Delaware Rver in North America, to two of his friends, John, Lord Berkeley, and Sir George Carteret.  (Source:  The American nation...to 18787-Volume I, Second Edition-John A. Garraty, pg. 37).