St. Vincent Timeline
Posted on September 29, 2006
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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
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