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Historical Timeline for British Virgin Islands - A chronology of key events
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About 100 years before Jesus-Christ, the Arawaks, Indians of South America, settle on the archipelago.


Around the middle of the 15th century, they were joined and driven out by the Caribbean Indians.


In 1493, Christopher Columbus discovered the archipelago and gave it the name of Virgin Islands.

In 1648, the Dutch took control of the archipelago.

In 1666, the Virgin Islands returned to British hands.

In 1774, the archipelago adopted its first Constitution.

In 1834, slavery was abolished.

From 1871 to 1956, the islands were part of the Federation of Leeward Islands.

In 1956, the archipelago became an English colony.

In 1967, the archipelago gained a new Constitution and its autonomy.

In 1977, the Constitution was amended, but the British Virgin Islands kept the status of a colony.

In recent years, there has been talk of uniting the archipelago with the US Virgin Islands.

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