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History of Bahamas
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Timeline[edit | edit source]

  • October 12, 1492 ➜ Landing of Christopher Columbus in San Salvador.
  • 1495 ➜ Establishment of the first Spanish colony on the islands, at Cat Island.
  • From 1495 to 1520 ➜ Deportation and gradual extinction of the Lucayan people.
  • 17th century ➜ Era of piracy.
  • 1629 ➜ King Charles I of England associates the islands with the new American colonies; they are governed by a governor general.
  • 1648 ➜ William Sayle lands on Eleuthera Island with 80 English Puritans.
  • 1649 ➜ The adventurers of Eleuthera proclaim an independent republic.
  • 1654 ➜ Cromwell goes to war against Spain and its monopoly on maritime trade.
  • 1666 ➜ Foundation of Charles Town which will become Nassau.
  • 1681 ➜ End of Cromwell's "reign". Charles II divided the islands among six nobles.
  • 1695 ➜ Charles Town is renamed Nassau.
  • 1701 ➜ Beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession.
  • 1703 ➜ Destruction of Nassau by the Spanish and French armies. The pirates proclaim their republic in Nassau.
  • 1714 ➜ Signature of the Treaty of Utrecht. End of rivalries between the English and the Spaniards.
  • 1718 ➜ King George II makes the Bahamas a royal colony.
  • 1729 ➜ First Bahamian parliament.
  • 1782 ➜ A Franco-Spanish-American coalition attacks Nassau; Spain regains possession of the Bahamas.
  • 1783 ➜ The English recapture Nassau. The Treaty of Versailles officially cedes the Bahamas to England.
  • 1783-1785 ➜ Influx of new loyalist settlers fleeing America. The population of the islands triples.
  • 1807 ➜ England abolishes the slave trade.
  • August 1, 1834 ➜ Abolition of slavery.
  • 1861-1865 ➜ Boom in trade with the southern states.
  • 1898 ➜ Establishment of a law promoting boat services and hotels.
  • 1920-1933 ➜ American prohibition is a windfall for the Bahamian economy.
  • 1953 ➜ Creation of the PLP, the Liberal Progressive Party led by Lynden Pindling.
  • 1959 ➜ Creation of BNT, the Bahamas National Trust. Its purpose is the development and management of the Bahamas national parks network.
  • 1961 ➜ Redeployment of the tourist industry, as Cuba turns to the Soviet Union.
  • 1962 ➜ Universal suffrage is granted.
  • 1963 ➜ General strike supported by the PLP. The elections bring to the post of Prime Minister the white Bahamian Symonette, leader of the UBP.
  • 1964 ➜ Great Britain grants internal autonomy to the Bahamas after a series of complex constitutional and political steps.
  • February 24, 1965 ➜ The Beatles start filming Help in the Bahamas
  • 1967 ➜ The Liberal Progressive Party (PLP) wins the elections, and its leader is appointed Prime Minister, a position Pindling will hold for 25 years.
  • 1967 ➜ Monroe Karmin wins the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for her article on the links between organized crime in the United States and business in the Bahamas.
  • 1969 ➜ A new Constitution gives the Bahamas full autonomy. The archipelago takes the name of Commonwealth of the Bahamas.
  • July 10, 1973 ➜ The Bahamas becomes an independent state after three centuries of domination by the British colony.
  • 1974 ➜ The Central Bank of the Bahamas is created.
  • 1977 ➜ Creation of the "People-to-People" program which allows visitors to live their travel experience alongside locals.
  • August 20, 1979 ➜ Diana Nyad made a success of the 165 km crossing which separated Bimini from the Florida coast.
  • 1986 ➜ The Bahamas ban fishing on coral reefs.
  • 1992 ➜ The elections are won by the conservative FNM (Free National Movement) whose leader, Hubert Ingraham, becomes Prime Minister.
  • 1993 ➜ Creation of BREEF, Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation, whose vocation is to protect the waters of the archipelago.
  • 1998 ➜ Opening of the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort built by South African businessman Sol Kerzner.
  • August 26, 2000 ➜ Death of former Prime Minister (1967-1992) Lynden Pindling, nicknamed the "Black Moses", at the age of 70.
  • August 25, 2001 ➜ Disappearance of R'n'B singer Aaliyah at the age of 22 in a plane crash in Marsh Harbor off the Bimini Islands, along with 8 other victims.
  • 2002 ➜ Elections bring Perry Christie to power and his Liberal-Progressive opposition party.
  • May 2, 2007 ➜ Hubert Ingraham becomes Prime Minister again after the victory of his party, the Free National Movement, in the legislative elections.
  • November 26, 2007 ➜ The Bahamas ratifies the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).
  • January 24, 2009 ➜ Resignation of Senator Pleasant Bridgewater accused of attempting to extort money from actor John Travolta after the death of his 16-year-old son following a heart attack caused by Kawasaki syndrome in Bahamas.
  • September 1, 2009 ➜ Amendment of the Fisheries Act which gives complete protection to all marine turtles by prohibiting the harvest, the possibility of
  • possession, purchase and sale including of its eggs.
  • July 5, 2011 ➜ Shark fishing is prohibited in the Bahamas, the ban also applies in its territorial waters (630,000 km²).
  • February 25, 2012 ➜ Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham inaugurates the Nassau National Stadium, designed and paid for by China, and built by Chinese migrant workers.
  • May 7, 2012 ➜ Former Prime Minister (2002-2007) Perry Christie leads the main opposition party (Liberal Progressive Party) to victory in the national elections.
  • May 11, 2017 ➜ Last legislative elections, the FNM wins and Hubert Minnis becomes Prime Minister.

Indian islands with little-known history[edit | edit source]

The first inhabitants of the Bahamian Islands came to settle there around the 10th century AD. Recent archaeological research has brought to light evidence of this first colonization. Prior to this time, it would appear that the Bahamas Islands were not inhabited.

The indigenous population that lives on the islands of the archipelago when the Spaniards arrived are made up of groups of aborigines, the Lucayans or Lucayos, a subgroup of the Arawaks who inhabit all of the Caribbean islands, large and small. This group is also established on the Turks and Caicos Islands.

The Lucayan Indians arrived on the islands during several waves of immigration at the turn of the 10th century. Their name "Lukku Cairi" means "inhabitants of the islands". Coming from the Caribbean islands to the south of the archipelago, perhaps from Cuba, the Lucayans flee the Lesser Antilles and the threat of the Caribbean Indians, valiant warriors and ferocious cannibals, who sacrifice their prisoners and put women in slavery. Great navigators, the Caribbean threatens all the populations of the islands of the region. These warriors have been said to be cannibals. In fact, if they eat their enemies captured during combat, it is not out of pure gluttony, but to obey sacrificial rituals. These formidable adversaries will never land in the Bahamas, however.

Relatively little is known about the original inhabitants of the archipelago. None of these ethnic groups, any more than those across the region, leaves a written record of their civilization. The only evidence of their culture are fragments of pottery, drawings, stone or bone tools, brought to light by recent archaeological research, which give us glimpses of their daily life.

The Lucayans, of Arawak origin, will be called Indians by the Spaniards, convinced of having arrived in India. In his correspondence, Christopher Columbus describes them as follows: "I have already seen three of my men on the ground put to flight a crowd of Indians ... They have no weapons and all go naked ... They are people full of humanity and without any wickedness ... They love their neighbor as themselves and they have a way of speaking which is the sweetest in the world, always kind and with a smile.

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