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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 and 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 - 1896 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 General 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 Reverend 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 Cecil Rhodes, born in Hertfordshire, England, British Statesman, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896 1853 Leander Starr Jameson, Prime Minister 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 New Zealand 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 / U.S. vicar and 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 Captain Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Sydney, Botany Bay NSW 1788 English settlers arrive in Australia'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 Governor 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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