Barbados Historical Time Line
1511 |
King Ferdinand of Spain authorised the taking of slaves from Barbados |
1536 |
Portuguese visits |
1605 |
First English vessel landed at Holetown |
1627 |
Settlement by English |
1636 |
Resolution of Barbados Council that Negroes and Indians should be life-long slaves |
1637 |
Pequot War in N. America. Beginning of expulsion to Barbados and enslavement of Native Americans |
1638 |
Census of Landowners of more than 10 acres |
1642 |
Beginning of cane sugar cultivation. |
1647 |
Report of a plague |
1648 |
Scottish prisoners of war sent to Barbados. Conspiracy of indentured servants to rebel |
1649 |
Irish prisoners of war sent to Barbados |
1654 |
Jewish synagogue built |
1655 |
The Quaker Mission. Report of Irish servants and black slaves escaping bondage to the Thickets. |
1662 |
Trade in Barbados slaves to Spanish merchants revealed |
1664 |
Society of Barbados Adventurers organised to explore and settle colonies in North America |
1671 |
Removal of Native Americans from the Carolinas and Eastern Seaboard to Barbados and other islands |
1672 |
Royal African Company formed to enter the slave market |
1675 |
Wampanoag War captives. Great hurricane August 31 |
1680 |
Census of landowners with number of their servants and slaves |
1682 |
Report of Governor of Spanish Florida concerning removal of Natives & Mestizos to Barbados |
1685 |
Monmouth Rebellion: captives barbadosed. |
1689 |
Barbadian expansion to the Leeward Islands under Sir Timothy Thornhill |
1710 |
The Codrington Trust. Christopher Codrington’s Wish for education of his slaves |
1715 |
Census of white inhabitants |
1739 |
Act of Parliament February 27 allowing slaves to give evidence against Free Negroes, Indians and Mulattoes. |
1751 |
Visit of George Washington |
1780 |
Oct. 10: a dreadful hurricane |
1783 |
Act of January 22 for maintenance and support of manumitted Negroes, Indians or Mulattoes |
1799 |
October 14: Freedmen appeal for right to testify and protection under the law |
1816 |
Slave revolt |
1830 |
July 15: Free Coloured Petition for full civil rights |
1831 |
June 9, Brown Privilege Bill passed with discriminatory qualifications allowing elite free coloured to vote. |
1834 |
Apprenticeship of slaves |
1838 |
Emancipation of slaves |
1843 |
Free coloured liberal, Samuel Jackman Prescod, elected to Parliament |
1863 |
Barbadian migration to British Guiana |
1876 |
Confederation riots |
1886 |
First black Chief Justice William Conrad Reeves appointed and knighted |
1905 |
Recruitment of Barbadians to work on Panama Canal |
1914 |
WORLD WAR I BEGAN |
1924 |
Marcus Garvey movement. Democratic League founded |
1937 |
Labouring class insurgency |
1938 |
First black-owned penny bank called the Barbados Progressive & Co-operative Bank Limited founded (click for more information). |
1939 |
WORLD WAR II BEGAN |
1941 |
BPL split as Barbados Labour Party and Barbados Workers Union |
1944 |
West Indian National Congress Party founded |
1950 |
Adult suffrage legislation passed |
1955 |
Democratic Labour Party founded |
1958 |
Barbados Labour Party leader became first Prime Minister of the Federation of the West Indies |
1966 |
April Visit of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia November 30: INDEPENDENCE |
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