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Historical Timeline for British Indian Ocean Territory - A chronology of key events
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  • The islands of the Chagos Archipelago were uninhabited until the late eighteenth century, when the French set up copra manors utilizing slave work in 1793. The islands have a been British area beginning around 1814 when they were surrendered to Britain with Mauritius (which then, at that point, incorporated the Seychelles). For regulatory comfort, and following the French practice, the islands were controlled from Mauritius. With respect to the number of inhabitants in the islands, after liberation a few slaves became contract representatives; the populace changing over the long haul by import of provisional work from Mauritius and, during the 1950s, from Seychelles, so that by the last part of the 1960s, those living on the islands were contract workers of the copra ranches. Neither they, nor those allowed by the estate proprietors to stay, claimed land or houses. They had licenses to live there at the circumspection of the proprietors and moved from one island to another as work required.
  • The islands were established as the British Indian Ocean Territory in 1965 by an Order in Council under the Royal Prerogative. This involves every one of the islands of the Chagos Archipelago and until June 1976 additionally incorporated the islands of Aldabra, Desroches and Farquhar which were then surrendered to the Seychelles, of which they are currently part. The Order in Council additionally accommodated the arrangement of a Commissioner for the Territory. One capacity gave on the Commissioner was the ability to make laws for the "harmony, request and great government" of the Territory.
  • The UK paid the state of Mauritius a £3 million award in acknowledgment of the unit of the Chagos Archipelago and among other legitimately restricting endeavors, gave a responsibility, rehashed by progressive legislatures, to surrender the islands to Mauritius when as of now not needed for protection purposes. Additionally, the UK likewise paid for the development of an air terminal in Seychelles in acknowledgment of the unit of their islands, however these were surrendered after Seychelles' autonomy.
  • In a distributed Exchange of Notes with the US Government in 1966, the Territory was made accessible to meet the safeguard needs of the United Kingdom and the United States legislatures. The Exchange of Notes imagined US utilization of Diego Garcia for an underlying time of 50 years and could stay in power for a further 20 years past 2016 except if either side pulls out to end it in the two years before its expiry – that is, from December 2014 to December 2016. There were updates to these Notes in 1972 and 1976.
  • In 1967 the BIOT Administration obtained the land and the business interests of the organization working the copra manors on the island. As the ranches were in financial decay, their future couldn't be ensured. In 1971, the ranch on Diego Garcia was shut when the island was required for protection purposes. Terminations followed later in different islands of the Chagos Archipelago. Individuals impacted by these terminations were the Mauritian and Seychellois provisional laborers and their families, who were then given the decision of getting back to Mauritius or Seychelles. The larger part picked Mauritius where they had close ties and were moved somewhere in the range of 1968 and 1973.
  • In 1971 the Commissioner, acting under guidelines from Ministers in London, sanctioned an Immigration Ordinance which made it unlawful for an individual to enter or stay in BIOT without a grant, and permitted those still needing to be taken out. This formalized in law the expulsion of the current regular citizen populace of the region to Mauritius or Seychelles and adequately settled a denial on their return.
  • Despite the fact that there are no exact figures it is trusted that somewhere in the range of 1400 and 1700 were eliminated from the islands. In 2002 on the change to British Nationality law numerous Chagossians who had British Overseas Territories Citizenship consequently, became British Citizens.
  • Pay courses of action for the Chagossians were given by the UK during the 1970s (£650,000 to Mauritius for resettlement) and the 1980s (a further £4m to Mauritius and agents of the Chagossians as a trust store).
  • There is a little local area of Chagossians situated in Crawley, Sussex, and one more in Manchester. There are additionally networks of previous islanders and their relatives staying in Seychelles and Mauritius. The British Indian Ocean Territory Administration has worked with a few (generally yearly) visits to the Territory by the oldest Chagossians, and a program of natural preparing for UK-based Chagossians that permits some to become associated with logical work in the Territory.

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