Queens, bwalo lakummawa la New York City, liri ndi mbiri yobwerera mmbuyo kuposa nthawi zamakono. Chigawochi ndi mbali ya Long Island ndipo inali nyumba ya anthu Achimereka a ku Lenape.
Anthu a ku England ndi a Dutch anafika ku Queens kukhazikika mu 1635 ndi midzi ku Maspeth ndi Vlissingen (tsopano Flushing) m'zaka za m'ma 1640. Unali mbali ya dziko la New Netherlands.
Mu 1657 a Flushing analembetsa chikalata chomwe chinadziwika kuti Flushing Remonstrance, chomwe chimapereka ufulu wa chipembedzo cha US Constitution.
Chipepalacho chinatsutsa boma la Dutch colonial kuti lizunze Quakers.
Queens County - monga idadziwika pansi pa ulamuliro wa Chingerezi - inali yoyambirira ya New York, yomwe inakhazikitsidwa mu 1683. Mzindawu panthawiyo unali ndi Nassau County.
Pa Nkhondo Yachivumbulutso, Queens anakhalabe pansi pa ulamuliro wa Britain. Nkhondo ya Long Island inkachitika pafupi kwambiri ku Brooklyn ndi Queens kusewera pang'ono pa nkhondoyo.
M'zaka za m'ma 1800 derali linakhalabe ulimi. Mu 1870 Long Island City inakhazikitsidwa, inang'ambika kuchoka ku tawuni ya Newtown (tsopano Elmhurst).
Queens Akulowa ku New York City
Bwalo la Queens, monga mbali ya New York City, linakhazikitsidwa pa January 1, 1898. Pa nthawi yomweyi, kumadzulo kwa dera - midzi ya North Hempstead, Oyster Bay, ndi tauni ina ya Hempstead, adatsalira monga gawo la Queens County, koma osati bwalo latsopano. Patapita chaka mu 1899, adagawanika kuti akhale a Nassau County.
Zaka zotsatirazi zinatanthauzidwa ndi njira zatsopano zoyendetsa ndikusintha malo ogona. Bridge ya Queensborough inatsegulidwa mu 1909 ndi msewu wa sitima pansi pa East River mu 1910. IRT Flushing subway line linagwirizanitsa Queens ku Manhattan mu 1915. Kuphatikizana ndi kuwonjezeka kwa galimoto kwawathandiza anthu a Queens kawiri pa zaka khumi 500,000 mu 1920 mpaka oposa 1 miliyoni mu 1930.
Queens anali ndi mphindi yomweyi pamene malo a 1939 a New York World Fair komanso malo a New York World Fair mu 1964-65, ku Flushing Meadows-Corona Park .
Ndege ya LaGuardia inatsegulidwa mu 1939 ndi JFK Airport mu 1948. Pambuyo pake inkadziwika kuti Idlewild Airport.
Queens adadziwika kwambiri pa chikhalidwe cha pop popanga nyumba ya Archie Bunker mu Onse mu Banja mu 1971. Chiwonetsero cha TV choterechi chinatanthawuza kuti bwalo labwino ndi loipa kapena loipa. M'zaka zaposachedwa ochita kuchokera ku Queens akwera kutchuka kwambiri padziko lonse la hip-hop ndi zowala monga Run DMC, Russell Simmons, ndi 50 Cent.
Zaka za m'ma 1970 ndi 2000 zakhala mbiri ina ya mbiri ya Queens pamene chidziwitso chachikulu cha dziko la America chinatsegulira dziko lapansi. Ufulu Wosamuka ndi Ufulu wa 1965 unasamukira kudziko lina kuchokera kudziko lina. Queens wakhala akupita kwa anthu othawa kwawo omwe ali ndi anthu oposa theka la anthu obadwira kumayiko ena komanso zinenero zoposa zana.
M'zaka za m'ma 2000, Queens yakhudzidwa ndi tsoka. Nkhondo ya 9/11 inapha anthu komanso anthu oyambirira kuderali. Ndege ya Airfield 587 inagwa mu November 2001 mu Rockaways kupha anthu 265.
Sandy yotchedwa Superstorm m'mwezi wa October 2012 anawononga malo otsika kwambiri kumwera kwa Queens. Pambuyo pa mphepo yamkuntho, moto waukulu unadutsa malo a Breezy Point, kuwononga nyumba zoposa zana.