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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR | 
| 1623 | Dutch colony of New Netherlands | Adriaen Jorisszen Tienpoint | |
| 1624 | Cornelis Jacobzen Mey | ||
| 1625 | Willem Verhulst | ||
| 1626 | september | Peter Minuit | |
| 1632 | march | Bastiaen Jansz Krol | |
| 1633 | april | Wouter van Twiller | |
| 1638 | 28 march | Willem Kieft | |
| 1647 | 11 may | Petrus Stuyvesant | |
| 1653 | Dutch colony of New Amsterdam | ||
| 1664 | 8 september | UK colony | Richard Nicolls | 
| 1668 | 17 august | Francis Lovelace | |
| 1673 | 12 august | Dutch colony of New Amsterdam | Cornelis Evertsen | 
| 1673 | 19 september | Anthonie Colve | |
| 1674 | 10 november | UK colony | Sir Edmund Andros (I) | 
| 1681 | 13 january | Anthony Brockholls | |
| 1683 | 27 august | Thomas Dongan | |
| 1688 | 11 august | Sir Edmund Andros (II) | |
| 1688 | 9 october | Associated state at New England | Francis Nicholson | 
| 1691 | 29 march | Henry Sloughter | |
| 1691 | 26 july | Richard Ingoldsby (I) | |
| 1692 | 30 august | Benjamin Fletcher | |
| 1698 | 22 april | Richard Coote, Earl of Bellomont Baron Coloony | |
| 1701 | 19 may | John Nanfan | |
| 1702 | 3 may | Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury | |
| 1708 | 18 december | John Lovelace, Baron Lovelace of Hurley | |
| 1709 | 6 may | Peter Schuyler (I) | |
| 1709 | 9 may | Richard Ingoldsby (II) | |
| 1710 | 10 april | Gerardus Beekman | |
| 1710 | 14 june | Robert Hunter | |
| 1719 | 21 july | Peter Schuyler (II) | |
| 1720 | 17 september | William Burnet | |
| 1728 | 15 april | John Montgomerie | |
| 1731 | 1 july | Rip Van Dam | |
| 1732 | 1 august | William Cosby | |
| 1736 | 10 march | George Clarke | |
| 1743 | 22 september | George Clinton | |
| 1753 | 10 october | Sir Danvers Osborn | |
| 1753 | 12 october | James de Lancey (I) | |
| 1755 | 3 september | Sir Charles Hardy | |
| 1757 | 3 june | James de Lancey (II) | |
| 1760 | 4 august | Cadwallader Colden (I) | |
| 1761 | 26 october | Robert Monckton | |
| 1763 | 28 june | Cadwallader Colden (II) | |
| 1765 | 13 november | Sir Henry Moore | |
| 1769 | 12 september | Cadwallader Colden (III) | |
| 1770 | 19 october | John Murray, Earl of Dunmore | |
| 1774 | 10 april | William Tryon | |
| 1780 | 3 march | James Robertson | |
| 1783 | 17 april | Andrew Elliott | |
| 1783 | 25 november | State | |
| 1788 | 26 july | 11^ state of USA |