2011 Event A colony of stromatolites is discovered at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland 1988 Event NASA unviels plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars 1981 Event 107th Preakness: Jorge Velasquez aboard Pleasant Colony wins in 1:54.6 1981 Event 107th Kentucky Derby: Jorge Velasquez on Pleasant Colony wins in 2:02 1962 Birthday Eddie Izzard, born in Colony of Aden, Yemen, actor, comedian, standup sets include, 'Stripped', 'Dress to Kill', 'Glorious', appeared in films, 'Ocean's Twelve', 'Mystery Men' 1960 Event Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus 1959 Event Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony 1954 Event British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation 1937 Event Aden becomes British crown colony 1933 Event Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony 1928 Event Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater New York City) 1925 Death Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71 1925 Event Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony 1920 Event British East Africa renamed Kenya and becomes a British crown colony 1916 Event German colony of Cameroon surrenders to Britain and France 1916 Event Britain proclaims Gilbert and Ellice Is colony in Pacific 1915 Event British and French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon 1914 Event Northern and Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria 1907 Event Frederik of Oaths disbands mental home colony Walden 1907 Event Britain grants responsible government to former colony of Transvaal 1905 Event British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya 1904 Event Netherlands Indies colony begins opium production 1902 Death Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896 dies at 48 1901 Event Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony 1901 Event Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony 1901 Event Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony 1900 Event Boer army under General Kritzinger take Cape colony 1900 Event Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony) 1900 Event British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony) 1900 Event Freeland Colony founded in US 1899 Event Battle at Graspan, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers 1899 Event Battle at Belmont, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers 1897 Event Province of Zululand annexed to Natal colony 1896 Event Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony 1895 Event Bechuanaland becomes part of Cape Colony 1893 Event Ivory Coast becomes a French colony 1890 Event Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape colony 1881 Event France sign treaty of protection with Tunisia colony 1879 Event Africaner Union forms by Reverend SJ du Toit at Cape colony 1877 Event Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony 1863 Event Dutch colony Suriname counts population of 33,000 slaves 1859 Event Dutch colony in Dutch Indies counts 4,800 slaves 1856 Event Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony 1854 Birthday Alfred Milner, born in Giessen, Germany, British governor, Cape colony 1853 Birthday Cecil Rhodes, born in Hertfordshire, England, British Statesman, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896 1853 Birthday Leander Starr Jameson, Prime Minister of South African Cape colony 1848 Event Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony 1843 Event Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony 1843 Event Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony 1840 Event New Zealand became a British colony 1838 Death John W. Janssens, Governor-General (Cape Colony), dies at 75 1826 Event Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed 1808 Event Sierra Leone becomes a British colony 1806 Event Cape colony becomes English colony 1805 Birthday Henry P. Scholte, Dutch / U.S. vicar and founder, Pella colony in Iowa 1804 Event 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony 1800 Event Dutch colony Curacao transfered to England 1795 Event Cape Colony surrenders to England 1793 Event Slaves in French colony of St. Domingue (Haiti) freed 1792 Birthday [Andries] Hendrik Potgieter, Cape Colony, settled Transvaal 1788 Event Captain Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Sydney, Botany Bay NSW 1788 Event English settlers arrive in Australia's Botany Bay to setup penal colony 1784 Event Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK 1777 Event Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery 1775 Event English Parliament declares Massachusetts colony is in rebellion 1774 Event Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves 1762 Birthday John W. Janssens, Governor-General of Cape colony/Dutch-Indies 1811 1749 Event Georgia Colony reverses itself and rules slavery is legal 1729 Event North Carolina becomes a royal colony 1723 Death Willem van de Pose, Governor of Cape Colony (1699-1797), dies at about 59 1721 Event South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony 1712 Death Simon van der Stel, Dutch Governor of Cape Colony (1679-99), dies at 72 1700 Event Mass orders priest to leave the colony 1691 Event Colony Massachusetts Bay gets new charter 1690 Event 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass) 1684 Event Colony Massachusetts under authority of English crown mounted 1684 Event King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter 1679 Event New Hampshire becomes a county Massachusetts Bay Colony 1677 Death John A van Riebeeck, Dutch founder Cape Colony, dies at 57 1669 Event John Lockes Constitution of English colony Carolina approved 1667 Event English colony Suriname in Dutch hands 1664 Event New Jersey becomes a British colony 1662 Event Connecticut chartered as an English colony 1657 Death William Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), dies 1656 Death Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown) 1656 Event U.S. colony Connecticut passes law against Quakers 1652 Event Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established 1649 Death John Winthrop, 1st governor Mass Bay Colony, dies at 61 1647 Event Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony 1641 Event Mass becomes 1st colony to give statutory recognition to slavery 1640 Event Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin 1639 Birthday Simon van der Stel, Dutch governor of Cape colony, 1679-99 1639 Event Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders 1639 Event Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed 1638 Event Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony 1637 Event Anne Hutchinson banished from Mass bay colony as a heretic 1636 Event In Massachusetts the Plymouth Colony's 1st law drafted 1635 Event Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony 1635 Event 1st recorded U.S. hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony 1635 Event French colony of Guadeloupe established in Caribbean 1634 Event U.S. colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony 1634 Event Lord Baltimore founded Catholic colony of Maryland 1633 Event Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its 1st government 1631 Event English colony Massachusetts Bay grants puritarian voting right 1630 Event Patent to Plymouth Colony issued 1629 Event England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony 1628 Event Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle 1628 Event Massachusetts colony founded by Englishmen 1624 Event Judge directs U.S. colony Virginia to English crown 1621 Event Governor Bradford of U.S. colony Plymouth disallows sport on Christmas Day 1621 Event Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth Mass 1621 Event Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony 1620 Event Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony 1619 Event 1st Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown Virginia 1619 Birthday John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder, Cape Colony 1610 Event Thomas West baron De La Mar appointed as 1st Governor of Virginia colony 1609 Event Bermuda becomes an English colony 1608 Event John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va 1607 Event 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va 1589 Birthday William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth colony for 30 years 1588 Birthday John Winthrop, 1st governor, Mass Bay Colony 1587 Event 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC 1584 Birthday John Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony 1583 Event Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America) 1561 Birthday Edwin Sandys, a founder of Virginia colony
