VC Bird Senior dies at 89

 

 

1989 

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Jean Claude Duvalier flees Haiti

1983

US invades Grenada

Antigua receives Independence November 1st with VC Bird as first Prime Minister

 

Antigua hosts its first Cricket Test Match at the St. John's Recreation Grounds

 

 

1979

New Jewel Movement, under the leadership of Maurice Bishop and Bernard Coard, takes power in Grenada

Andy Roberts and Vivian Richards make their cricketing debuts

1974

 

 

Sugar industry closes

 1971

1971

Papa Doc, Francois Duvalier dies leaving 19 year old son, Baby Doc, his successor and President for life

1969

Americans land on moon.

 

 

Antigua acheives Statehood
and hosts its first Antigua Sailing Week

1962

Barbuda becomes a constituency
Dockyard restored and opened

 1961

US failed invasion Bay of Pigs

 1959

Castro institutes a communists dictatorship in Cuba

 1953
1950

Korean War

 1949

Mao Tse Tung takes power in China

VC Bird Senior becomes President of the Antigua Trades and Labour Union

1945

Second World War ends

Formation of Antigua Trades and Labour Union, President Reginal St. Clair Stevens

1939 

1936

Spanish Civil War

1926

The British Empire becomes a Commonwealth

Labour Riots 2 people killed and 13 wounded

 

1917

The Russian Revolution

1914

First World War (1914-1918)

1901

England's Victorian Period ends

British Naval Withdraws

Dockyard closes

 

Codrington Lease on Barbuda Ends

 

1861

British Parliament ordered the annexation of Barbuda and deemed a Dependancy of Antigua

 

67th Regiment the last stationed on Shirley Heights 

 

British Military begins Withdrawl

1808

Napoleon overthrows the King of Spain Fernando VII and places his brother Joseph on the throne

1837

England's Victorian Period begins (1837-1901)

Emancipation

1815

Napoleonic Wars end

1807

1805

1803

Napoleonic Wars begin (1803-1815)

Horatio Nelson served as Commander of the Northern Division of the Leeward Islands at the Dockyard

Govenor Sir Thomas Shirley ordered Shirley Height to be built 

 

1776

13 English Colonies declare their independence, July 4th, (USA)

1773 

Boston Tea Party.

Prince Klaas executed, at what is now called the Recreation Grounds, for planning a slave uprising. 6 put out to dry and 58 burned at the stake

1850
1760

Industrial Revolution in England

Dockyard becomes the base for a squaudron of ships for patrolling the West Indies

 1725

 

Great Fort George built inorder to serve as a place of last refuge able to hold the entire population of Antigua at the time, 1200 people. 

 

Christopher and John Codrington lease Barbuda which lasts nearly 200 years under successive Condrington family members

Christopher Codrington comes to Antigua bringing with him latest Sugar Technology resulting in sugar being the main island crop 

 

First two forts built on the island, Blake Island in Falmouth Harbour and Rat Island in St. John's.

 1672

 

Act passed to build St. John's Harbour

 

Antigua is returned to the British due to the Treaty of Breda

 

French Invasion and occupation

Lord Willoughby founded Parham

1653 

Taj Mahal is built in India

Antigua has a population of 750

 

1640 

Sugarcane is introduced to Leeward Islands

1636 

English Parliament authorises the sale of Africans for life

Successful English settlement by Edward Warner in Falmouth

Unsuccessful settlement attempt made by French privateer, Captain d'Escambuc

Settlement attempt made by friend of the Earl of Carlisle, Mr. Williams in Carlisle Bay Valley,Claremont

Earl of Carlise claims Antigua but settles in Barbados

Antigua, St. Kitt's, Nevis and Barbuda taken under the protection of Braitain

 1587

Sir Walter Raleigh found the first English Colony in North America, North Carolina

 1543

Copernicus publishes his theory that the Sun is the centre of the Universe, and that the Earth revolves around it.

 1542

Spanish Crown abolishes Indian Slavery in the new world.

 

Spaniard Captain Don Antionio Seranno failed attempt to settle Antigua

 1498

Columbus introduces encomienda in Santo Domingo, paving the way for Indian Slavery.

Columbus sails by Waladli naming the island, Santa Maria la Antigua

 

 1492

Columbus arrives in the "New World" landing on San Salvador, in the Bahamas 1492

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1295
1271

Marco Polo travels to China

1100 

Inca Empire

 

800 

Charles the Great is crowned Emperor

 

c650 

Chinese invent Porcelain

 

622 

Mahommed marchs from Mecca to Medina, beginning of Muslem era

Ceramic Age Progessing to Late Ceramic Age 

 

 

 

1453
476

Middle Ages and Feudalism begins

 

423
375

Attila the Hun invades various regions of Europe 375-425

 Carbondates place settlement at Royalls (c250-c650)

300

139 

0

Birth of Christ

 

44

Julius Caesar Murdered

 

51

Cleopatra rules Egypt (51-31bc)

 

55

Julius Caesar invades Britain

Archaic settlement at
Five Island Gap, Antigua

71

Spartacus leads slave revolt against Rome

 

c100

Chinese develope the use of paper

 

221

Great Wall of China

c264

First gladiator games

 Archaic Age Ending

c300

Temple of the Sun at Teotihaucan, Mexico

 

323

Alexander the Great dies marking the end of Classic Greek Culture

Archaic settlement at Cloverleaf, Antigua 

 

384

Birth of Greek Philosopher Aristotle (384-322bc)

 399

 

563

 

776

First recorded Olympic Games

 

750

 Iron Age (750bc-42ad)

 

753

Roman Empire is founded

900 

 

c1193

Greeks destroy Troy

 

1200

Classic Greek Culture begins

Archaic settlement at Hand Point, Antigua

 

Archaic settlement at Deep Bay, Antigua

 

Archaic settlement at Jolly Beach, Antigua

 

 

 

 

c2540

Pharaoh Khafre completes building of the Great Sphinx of Giza

 

c2680

Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops) completes contruction of the Great Pyramid at Giza

 

2494
2813

 Egyptian Pyramids

Archaic Settlement at Twenty Hill, Antigua

 

3500 

c4000 

 

8300

 Neolithic and Bronze Ages (8300-750bc)