The village was mentioned in 1446. In the 16th century, it was the property of Brykcy Chądzyński, then Kiszków. In 1622, Sterdyń was inherited by Anna Iwanowska from Kiszków, the wife of the cup-bearer of Drohicz Jakub Iwanowski of the Łodzia coat of arms, and then, as a dowry, it was received by the daughter of Anna and Jakub Iwanowski, Barbara, the wife of the starost of Drohicz, the castellan of Czersk Zbigniew Ossoliński. In this way, from 1643 to 1706, the village remained in the hands of the Ossolińskis. From 1709 to around 1726, it was the property of Wiktoryn Kuczyński, the castellan of Podlasie. Wiktoryn Kuczyński (born 1668), active in many fields, a participant in the political events of his time, a supporter of King Stanisław Leszczyński, exposed himself to Russian persecution - the devastation of his estates and the imprisonment of his son. Active in the field of economy, he floated grain on the Nurzec, Bug and Vistula rivers to Gdańsk with his own ships. He died in 1738 and was buried with the Benedictine nuns in Drohiczyn. In the 18th and early 19th centuries Sterdyń belonged to the Ossolińskis again, including the starost of Sulejów Stanisław Ossoliński. In 1809 Józef Wawrzyniec Krasiński married Emilia Ossolińska and received the Sterdyń estates from her hand. Józef Wawrzyniec Krasiński (1783–1845) was a writer, translator and memoirist, an activist of the Warsaw Charitable Society, decorated for his Napoleonic campaigns with the Golden Cross of Virtuti Militari and the French Legion of Honour, senator castellan of the Kingdom of Poland. Together with the hand of his daughter Paulina Sterdyń it passed in 1849 to Ludwik Górski (1818–1908), an outstanding agricultural activist, socially engaged, founder of the Agricultural Society, publicist. A devout Catholic, through his connections among cardinals he had considerable influence in Rome. Pope St. Pius X personally decorated him with the Knight's Cross of the Order of Pius IX. After Ludwik Górski's death the estate was taken over by Kazimierz Krasiński, and then by his son Franciszek Krasiński. The estate remained in the hands of the Krasińskis until the end and around 1930 it had 2,300 hectares.
Sterdyń, as a small town located far from the main communication routes, never played a major historical role. However, we know that the inhabitants of the Sterdyń land took part in the January Uprising and also provided selfless help to the insurgents, for which the tsarist authorities imposed severe repressions on them. For this reason, Sterdyń lost its city rights in 1869. In the second half of the 19th century, persecution of the Uniates took place, and in 1905 peasant uprisings were recorded. In 1863, the tsarist authorities carried out the emancipation of the peasants. On the hundredth anniversary (1963), a monument commemorating this event was erected on the Sterdyń market square. During World War I, Russian troops burned down over 1/3 of the buildings in Sterdyń. During World War II, the inhabitants helped or participated in actions organized by the AK districts "Sęp" and "Proso". For this reason, the Germans shot about 400 people. During the occupation, there was also a ghetto in Sterdyń. 400 people of Jewish origin died there. The remaining Jewish population was transported to the nearby extermination camp in Treblinka. In the first years after the war, the residents of Sterdyń also experienced dramatic events at the hands of the people's government. An example of this is the execution of Józef Myszko, the village mayor of Sewerynówka. Józef Myszko helped unknown partisans. Accused of aiding bandits and considered an enemy of the people, he was sentenced by a "court" in the form of UB officers to death by shooting. The sentence was carried out immediately in front of the forcibly gathered residents of Sterdyń. The "trial" and the sentence took place in the market square on December 28, 1946. The murdered man was 37 years old.
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