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Curaçao

island state in the Caribbean, part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

7 dated entries naming Curaçao, drawn from 7 separate years between 1634 CE and 2025 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

  • 1634July 29 – Curaçao is captured by the Dutch.source
  • 1678May 11 – French admiral Jean d'Estrees runs his whole fleet aground in either the Las Aves Archipelago or Isla de Aves, intending to reach Curaçao.source

18th century

  • 1712Early March – Start of the Cassard expedition, a sea voyage by French Navy captain Jacques Cassard during which he ransacks Santiago in the Cape Verde Islands and pillages Montserrat, Antigua, Surinam, Berbice, Essequibo, St. Eustatius and Curaçao, returning to France with loot worth over nine million francs.source
  • 1716September 15 – "Maria", an African slave of the Dutch West India Company on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, murders the plantation overseer, Christiaan Muller, then leads a rebellion, killing Muller's family and much of the white staff on the company's plantation. The uprising is suppressed after 10 days, and Maria is executed by burning at the stake on November 9.source
  • 1795August 17 – A large slave rebellion occurs in Curaçao, suppressed the following month.source

20th century

  • 1969May 30 – Riots in Curaçao mark the start of an Afro-Caribbean civil rights movement on the island.source

21st century

  • 2025March 31 – The Caribbean guilder is introduced, replacing the Netherlands Antillean guilder as the currency for Curaçao and Sint Maarten.source

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