St. Vincent Timeline

ST. VINCENT TIMELINE

See Also: St. Vincent Calendar

1300 – Carib Indians of South America conquer the indigenous Arawak Indians

1498 – 1500 – Island is discovered in the third voyage of Christopher Columbus

1627 – Granted to Britain’s Lord CARLISLE

1660 – Declared neutral

1672 – Granted to Lord WILLOUGHBY

1675 – African slaves became the first permanent non-Carib settlers after swimming ashore from a Dutch shipwreck

1718 – La Soufriere volcano eruption

1719 – Yellow Caribs allow French settlement and slaves are brought in to work their estates

1722 – King George I grants the island to the Duke of Marlborough

1722 – 1748 French settle the island

1748 – Declared neutral again in the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

1762 – Captured by British General Robert MONCKTON

1763 – Ceded to Great Britain

24 Sept. 1772 – Start of First Carib War, British forces led by Sir William YOUNG

17 Feb. 1773 – British sign treaty with Caribs giving them the Windward Coast of the island

1778 – French seize the island again

1780 – Hurricane destroys almost all the dwelling houses, the churches, and other buildings

1783 – Treaty of Versailles returns the island to the British

01 Jan. 1784 – France returns St. Vincent to the English following the Treaty of Versailles

1795 – 1797 – France supports Britain in deporting 5,000 Caribs to Roatan Island/Belize, after the Second Carib War

1812 – La Soufriere volcano erupts, many estates destroyed or damaged

1819 – Hurricane – heavy damage to outlying islands

1833 – Becomes part of the Windward Islands

1834 – Slavery is abolished – 18,000+ freed

1840 – Portuguese immigrant workers arrive

1898 – Widespread hurricane damage

1902 – La Soufriere volcano eruption kills 2,000 Vincentians

1935 – Labor Rebellion

1958 – 1962 – Part of the Federation of the West Indies

27 Oct. 1969 – Becomes an associated state

13 Apr. 1976 – La Soufriere erupts again

27 Oct. 1979 – Independence

SOURCE: Various reference books