1988 NASA unviels plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars
1981 107th Preakness: Jorge Velasquez aboard Pleasant Colony wins in 1:54.6
1981 107th Kentucky Derby: Jorge Velasquez on Pleasant Colony wins in 2:02
1960 Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus
1959 Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
1954 British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation
1937 Aden becomes British crown colony
1933 Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony
1928 Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater New York City)
1925 Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71
1925 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
1920 British East Africa renamed Kenya and becomes a British crown colony
1916 German colony of Cameroon surrenders to Britain and France
1916 Britain proclaims Gilbert and Ellice Is colony in Pacific
1915 British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon
1914 Northern and Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria
1907 Frederik of Oaths disbands mental home colony Walden
1907 Britain grants responsible government to former colony of Transvaal
1905 British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya
1904 Netherlands Indies colony begins opium production
1902 Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890-96) dies at 48
1901 Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony
1901 Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony
1901 Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony
1900 Boer army under gen Kritzinger take Cape colony
1900 Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)
1900 British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony)
1900 Freeland Colony founded in US
1899 Battle at Graspan, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers
1899 Battle at Belmont, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers
1897 Province of Zululand annexed to Natal colony
1896 Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony
1895 Bechuanaland becomes part of Cape Colony
1893 Ivory Coast becomes a French colony
1890 Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape colony
1881 France sign treaty of protection with Tunisia colony
1879 Africaner Union forms by Rev SJ du Toit at Cape colony
1877 Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony
1863 Dutch colony Suriname counts population of 33,000 slaves
1859 Dutch colony in Dutch Indies counts 4,800 slaves
1856 Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony
1854 Alfred Milner, born in Giessen, Germany, British governor, Cape colony
1853 Leander Starr Jameson, PM of South African Cape colony
1848 Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony
1843 Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony
1843 Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
1840 NZ became a British colony
1838 John W. Janssens, Governor-General (Cape Colony), dies at 75
1826 Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed
1808 Sierra Leone becomes a British colony
1806 Cape colony becomes English colony
1805 Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar/founder, Pella colony in Iowa
1804 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony
1800 Dutch colony Curacao transfered to England
1795 Cape Colony surrenders to England
1793 Slaves in French colony of St. Domingue (Haiti) freed
1792 [Andries] Hendrik Potgieter, Cape Colony, settled Transvaal
1788 Capt Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Sydney, Botany Bay NSW
1788 English settlers arrive in Aust's Botany Bay to setup penal colony
1784 Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK
1777 Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery
1775 English Parliament declares Massachusetts colony is in rebellion
1774 Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves
1762 John W. Janssens, Governor-General of Cape colony/Dutch-Indies 1811
1749 Georgia Colony reverses itself and rules slavery is legal
1729 North Carolina becomes a royal colony
1723 Willem van de Pose, Governor of Cape Colony (1699-1797), dies at about 59
1721 South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony
1712 Simon van der Stel, Dutch Governor of Cape Colony (1679-99), dies at 72
1700 Mass orders priest to leave the colony
1691 Colony Massachusetts Bay gets new charter
1690 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
1684 Colony Massachusetts under authority of English crown mounted
1684 King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter
1679 New Hampshire becomes a county Massachusetts Bay Colony
1677 John A van Riebeeck, Dutch founder Cape Colony, dies at 57
1669 John Lockes Constitution of English colony Carolina approved
1667 English colony Suriname in Dutch hands
1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony
1662 Connecticut chartered as an English colony
1657 William Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), dies
1656 Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown)
1656 U.S. colony Connecticut passes law against Quakers
1652 Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established
1649 John Winthrop, 1st governor Mass Bay Colony, dies at 61
1647 Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony
1641 Mass becomes 1st colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
1640 Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin
1639 Simon van der Stel, Dutch governor of Cape colony, 1679-99
1639 Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders
1639 Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
1638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony
1637 Anne Hutchinson banished from Mass bay colony as a heretic
1636 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
1636 In Massachusetts the Plymouth Colony's 1st law drafted
1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
1635 1st recorded U.S. hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony
1635 French colony of Guadeloupe established in Caribbean
1634 U.S. colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony
1634 Lord Baltimore founded Catholic colony of Maryland
1633 Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its 1st government
1631 English colony Massachusetts Bay grants puritarian voting right
1630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
1629 England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony
1628 Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
1628 Massachusetts colony founded by Englishmen
1624 Judge directs U.S. colony Virginia to English crown
1621 Gov Bradford of U.S. colony Plymouth disallows sport on Christmas Day
1621 Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth Mass
1621 Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony
1620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
1619 1st Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown Virginia
1619 John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder, Cape Colony
1610 Thomas West baron De La Mar appointed as 1st Governor of Virginia colony
1609 Bermuda becomes an English colony
1608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va
1607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va
1589 William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth colony for 30 years
1588 John Winthrop, 1st governor, Mass Bay Colony
1587 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC
1584 John Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony
1583 Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America)
1561 Edwin Sandys, a founder of Virginia colony
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