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Barbados

island nation in the Caribbean

15 dated entries naming Barbados, drawn from 15 separate years between 1605 CE and 1970 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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17th century

  • 1605Crew of the Olive become the first English visitors to Barbados.source
  • 1625An English colony is established in Barbados.source
  • 1627February 17 – England lands the first European settlers on Barbados.source
  • 1650October 30 – The Commonwealth of England government passes a law prohibiting trade between English merchants and English colonies that had sided with Charles II over Oliver Cromwell. Specifically labeled as rebel colonies for purposes of the ban are the North American colonies of Virginia and the Somers Isles (alias Bermuda), as well as the Caribbean islands of Barbados and Antigua.source
  • 1678About 1,200 Irish families sail from Barbados to Virginia and the Carolinas.source
  • 1692October 21 – In Barbados, a slave revolt is crushed.source
  • 1699October 3 – The Liverpool Merchant, the first slave ship to depart from the Port of Liverpool, sets sail for West Africa where it embarks hundreds of African slaves and sails for Barbados, arriving there on September 18, 1700 with 220 slaves on board.source

18th century

  • 1751November 17 – Future United States President George Washington becomes seriously ill with smallpox while he and his older brother Lawrence are visiting the island of Barbados during an epidemic Washington, 19 years old, survives the virus but is bedridden for almost a month.source
  • 1780October 10–16 – The Great Hurricane flattens the islands of Barbados, Martinique and Sint Eustatius; 22,000 are killed.source
  • 1785The British government establishes a permanent land force in the Eastern Caribbean, based in Barbados.source
  • 1786September 2 – A hurricane strikes Barbados.source

19th century

  • 1843June 6 – In Barbados, Samuel Jackman Prescod is the first non-white person elected to the House of Assembly.source

20th century

  • 1952October 19 – Alain Bombard begins to sail from the Canary Islands to Barbados in 65 days without using provisions; he reaches them December 23.source
  • 1968May 1 – CARIFTA, the Caribbean Free Trade Association, is formally created as an agreement between Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago.source
  • 1970July 12 – Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra II arrives in Barbados.source

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