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1995 Louis Sen A Kaw, Suriname's great dam builder, dies at 75

1994 Asta ER Elstak, Suriname/Neth welfare worker, dies at 74

1994 Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police, dies at 38

1993 AJA Quintus Bosz, Indonesian/Suriname lawyer, dies at 78

1993 Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire

1993 Henk Knol, Suriname MP (PvdA), dies at 61

1992 SuriPop VII, Suriname Popular Song Festival

1991 Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname religious leader, dies

1991 Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname

1991 Cornelis Z. Forster, Suriname granman/gaanman, dies

1990 Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies

1989 Henk Heidweiller, ambassador of Suriname, dies

1989 Suriname SLM-173 (DC-8) crashes near Paramaribo Airport killing 173

1989 Milton van Embricqs, Suriname/Dutch publicist, dies

1989 Percy Stuart, Suriname/Dutch sports journalist, dies

1988 Tamara Pos, Suriname/Dutch activist

1988 Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname

1987 Suriname constitution ratified

1986 Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village

1986 Suriname government proclaims gold purification

1986 Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling

1983 Roy Horb, Suriname sergeant/putschist, commits suicide

1982 Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents

1982 Andre Kamperveen, Suriname minister, murdered

1982 Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary, murdered

1982 Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered

1982 Frank Wijngaarde, Suriname journalist, murdered

1982 Harald Riedewald, Suriname attorney, murdered

1982 John Baboeram, Suriname lawyer, murdered

1982 Jozef Slagveer, Suriname journalist, murdered

1982 Leckie, Suriname scholar, murdered

1982 Leslie Rahman, Suriname journalist, murdered

1982 Surendre Rambocus, Suriname army lieutenant, murdered

1982 Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building

1982 Wilfred Hawker, Suriname sgt-major, executed

1982 Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname

1982 Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns and flees to Neth

1982 Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees

1981 Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered

1981 Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker

1980 Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted

1980 Miltary coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname

1980 Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname

1977 Latoya Warning, Suriname 4th Miss Teenager 1993

1976 Mike Ferrier, Suriname/Dutch soccer player, FC Volendam, Salernitana

1975 Netherlands grants Suriname independence (Natl Day)

1975 Raymond Graanoogst, Suriname/Dutch soccer player for the FC Utrecht

1974 Rene A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillean poet, dies at 57

1974 Harvey Esajas, Suriname/Dutch soccer player, Feyenoord

1974 Gregory Playfair, Suriname/Dutch soccer player, PSV

1973 Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair

1973 Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders

1972 Sherida Pawiroredjo, Suriname Miss Indra Maju 1993

1971 Quintis "Chico" Ristie, Suriname radio host

1971 Ulrich van Gobbel, Suriname/Dutch soccer player, Feyenoord

1970 Saskia Sibilo, Miss Suriname 1990

1970 Dean Gorre, Suriname/Dutch soccer player, Feyenoord

1970 "Jopie" Pengel, [Johan A], premier Suriname (1963-69), dies at 54

1970 Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier Suriname, dies

1969 Suriname government of Pengel resigns

1968 University of Suriname opens

1967 Anthony Nesty, swimmer, won Suriname's 1st gold olympic medal

1965 H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname

1964 Florence Gopi, Suriname radio-broadcaster, KBC-Metro B˜lmer

1964 Suriname governor A Currie resigns

1964 Suriname River dammed

1963 Stanley Menzo, Suriname/Dutch soccer goaltender, Ajax/PSV

1963 George Heidweiler, Suriname, Dutch painter

1963 "Jopie" Pengel forms government in Suriname

1962 Ruud Gullit, Suriname/Dutch soccer star, Feyenoord, PSV, AC Milan

1961 Ane-Marie Sanches, newscaster, Suriname TV/Radio

1960 Carolien de Windt, Suriname/Dutch singer, Mai Tai

1960 Bolik Dahan, Suriname singer/radio host, Radio KBC

1959 Kenneth D. Herdigein, Suriname/Dutch actor, Say A

1958 J Pengel forms government/Emanuels premier of Suriname

1957 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die

1956 Denise Jannah, [Zeefuik], Suriname jazz singer, Farmer's Market

1955 J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname

1953 Roy Ristie, Suriname/Neth radio host, Apintie, Kankantrie

1953 Marcel R Zeeuw, Suriname Lt-colonel, coup 1982

1952 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles and Suriname ends

1952 Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherlands which flew from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers

1951 Johannes C Kielstra, Dut economist/gov (Suriname 1933-44), dies at 72

1950 Suriname becomes independent part in Realm of Netherlands

1949 NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname

1947 Carmen Krolis, Suriname/Neth singer

1946 NPS, Nationale Party Suriname, forms

1945 Anton de Kom, Suriname resistance fighter, dies at 47

1942 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews

1941 Frank Creton, Suriname/Neth painter

1941 U.S. troops land on Suriname to protect bauxite mine

1941 Jules Wijdenbosch, premier Suriname

1940 Leo H Ferrier, Suriname writer, Atman

1940 Gov of Suriname and Netherlands Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees

1938 Frits Wols, [Eugene W Wong Loi Sing], Suriname, sec-gen, UNESCO

1936 R. Ronald Venetian, president Suriname, 1991-

1935 Michael Slory, Suriname poet, Bitter Combat

1934 Hilly Axwijk, Suriname social worker

1933 Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands

1933 Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators

1933 Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname

1932 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo

1931 Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo

1929 Andre Carolus Cirino, Suriname/Indian poet

1929 Cornelis W. Lely, Dutch Governor of Suriname (1902-05), dies at 74

1926 Max Sordam, Suriname warden/writer, Dictionary Sranantongo

1925 Eddy Bruma, Suriname politician

1921 Beatrice "Fiet" van Ommeren-Samson, Suriname writer

1919 Franc [Franklin E] Essed, Suriname agricultural eng, Oper Grasshopper

1917 Rene A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillian poet, Juancho Picaflor

1917 Asta E R Elstak, Suriname/Dutch social worker

1916 Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo

1916 Jagernath Lachmon, premier Suriname

1916 Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname

1916 Dugo D Schenker, Suriname/Antillian producer

1916 Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier of Suriname, 1963-69

1915 A J A Quintus Bosz, Indonesian/Suriname lawyer

1913 Hugo Pos, Suriname/Neth WW II prosecutor of minor war crimes Tokyo

1910 John YWJ Eilerts de Cock, sea officer (Suriname), dies at 44

1909 Nicolaas G Pierson, director Suriname/Dutch Bank, dies at 80

1908 Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname

1908 Arnoud Breeveld, Suriname bishop

1907 Jan Klaasesz, Dutch governor Suriname, 1949-56

1907 Sophie Redmond, Suriname's 1st female physician

1905 Dutch AR-politician AWF Idenburg named governor of Suriname

1905 Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used

1903 Albert Helman, [Lou Lichtveld], Suriname politician/novelist

1903 Lodewijk AM "Lou" Lichtveld, [Albert Helman], Suriname author

1902 Titus AJ van Asch van Wijck, Governor of Suriname (1891-97), dies at 53

1900 Jan van Tilburg, governor Suriname, PVDA, 1955-62

1899 Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname relig leader/co-found, VHP

1899 Esquire Mauritius A de Savornin Lohman, Governor of Suriname, dies at 67

1892 Cornelis A van Sypesteyn, Dutch governor of Suriname, dies at 69

1891 Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as Governor of Suriname

1891 Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname

1890 1st 44 Javans arrive in Suriname, to work 5 year on sugar plantations

1889 Jan E Matzeliger, Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies

1885 John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine

1884 Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed

1884 Abraham Rutgers, Dutch governor, Suriname, 1928-33

1878 John C Kielstra, Dutch economist/governor of Suriname, 1933-44

1876 Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years

1873 1st contract workers of British-Indies Co arrives in Suriname

1870 Netherlands and Engl sign "Koelietraktaat" Br-Indian contract work in Suriname

1865 Johannes IJWJ Eilerts de Haan, Dutch sea officer, Lucie R, Suriname

1865 Pope Pius IX visits Suriname

1865 NV Suriname Bank established

1863 Slavery abolished in Suriname and Netherlands Antilles

1863 Dutch colony Suriname counts population of 33,000 slaves

1862 Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname

1854 Cornelis W. Lely, Dutch engineer/gov of Suriname, 1902-05

1849 Titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname, 1891-97

1848 Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony

1843 1st Chinese immigrant arrives in Suriname

1839 Nicolaas G Pierson, Dutch banker/Suriname premier, 1897-1901

1838 Abraham de Veer, Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1822-28), dies at 71

1832 Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname

1832 Esquire Maurits A de Savornin Lohman, Dutch governor of Suriname

1821 Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die

1816 Dutch regain Suriname

1813 Charles Pierre Schimpf, governor of Suriname, 1855-59

1812 Jurriaan F de Frederici, Dutch governor-gen (Suriname), dies at 60

1809 Peter "Peerke" Donders, Dutch RC missionary to Suriname

1804 Suriname sold to English (until Feb, 1816)

1804 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony

1802 English sell Suriname to Dutch

1799 English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname

1789 Fleeing slaves under Bonni attack military post on Suriname

1782 Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies

1779 Jan Nepveu, Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1769-79), dies at 59

1774 1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing

1771 West Indian Company and Amsterdam divide up Suriname

1771 Jacob Andries van Braam, colonial director, Suriname

1770 Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname

1768 Jan J Mauricius, Dutch governor-gen of Suriname (1742-51), dies at 75

1767 Abraham de Veer, Dutch governor-general of Suriname, 1822-28

1760 Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves)

1751 Jurrian F de Frederici, governor-General, Suriname

1740 Francois van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral (Suriname), dies at 71

1719 John/Jean Nepveu, Dutch governor of Suriname, 1768-79

1712 French hijacker Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast

1692 Jan J Mauricius, Dutch governor-general of Suriname, 1742-51

1688 Cornelis van Aerssen, governor of Suriname (1683-88), murdered at 50

1683 West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname

1669 Francois van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral, Suriname/Algeria

1669 Abraham Crijnssen, Swiss admiral, conquered Suriname, dies

1667 English fleet plunders Suriname plantations

1667 English colony Suriname in Dutch hands

1667 Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname

1667 Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River

1666 Abraham Crijnssen departs to Suriname

1637 Philip J van Lichtenbergh, Governor of Suriname, baptized



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