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Trinidad and Tobago achieved full independence via the Trinidad and Tobago Independence Act 1962 on 31 August 1962 within the Commonwealth with Queen Elizabeth II as its titular head of state. On 1 August 1976, the country became a republic, and the last Governor-General , Sir Ellis Clarke , became the first President.
List of prime ministers of Trinidad and Tobago; References This page was last edited on 24 August 2024, at 21:15 (UTC). Text is ...
The British brought African slaves to Trinidad and Tobago. [5] The first Europeans to discover and settle in Trinidad and Tobago were the Spanish. [6] Trinidad was originally a Spanish colony and was under Spanish rule until the British took hold of Trinidad in 1797. [7] The French and the English later colonized the islands.
Trinidad and Tobago, [a] officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean.Comprising the main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, along with numerous smaller islands, it is located 11 kilometres (6 nautical miles) northeast off the coast of Venezuela, 130 kilometres (70 nautical miles) south of Grenada, and west of Barbados.
1592 Spanish colonization of Trinidad begins. 1623 English colonization of Saint Kitts begins. 1627 English colonization of Barbados begins. 1628 English colonization of Nevis begins. 1631 Dutch colonization of Saint Martin begins. 1632 English colonization of Montserrat and Antigua begins. 1634 Dutch conquest of Spanish Curaçao. 1635 French ...
The Spanish Governor Chacon decided to capitulate without fighting. Trinidad became a British crown colony, with a French-speaking population and Spanish laws. The 1797 conquest and formal ceding of Trinidad [53] in 1802 led to an influx of settlers from England or the British colonies of the Eastern Caribbean.
With the formation of the West Indies Federation in 1958, the Williams administration acquired more direct policy control over Trinidad and Tobago. [3]: 202–233 In 1958, a Department of Tobago Affairs was created, headed by a permanent secretary. In 1962, Trinidad and Tobago became an independent nation.
The Curonian colonization of the Americas was performed by the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (now Latvia), which was the second-smallest state to colonise the Americas, after the Knights of Malta. It had a colony on the island of Tobago from 1654 to 1659 and intermittently from 1660 to 1689.