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History Of Saint Kitts And Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis have one of the longest written histories in the Caribbean, both islands being among Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spain's and English overseas possessions, England's first colonies in the archipelago. Despite being only two miles apart and quite diminutive in size, Saint Kitts and Nevis were widely recognized as being separate entities with distinct identities until they were forcibly united in the late 19th century. Pre-Columbian Period (2900 BC – 1493 AD) The first natives to live on the islands, as early as 3,000 years ago, were called Ciboney. However, the lack of pottery makes their origin and timeline uncertain. They were followed by the Arawak peoples, or Taino in 800 AD. The warlike Island Caribs followed and had expanded north of St. Kitts by the time of the Spanish conquest. Peak native populations occurred between 500 and 600 AD. The First Europeans (1493–1623) The first Europeans to see and name the islands were the Spanish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moll - The Island Of St Christophers Alias St Kitts
Moll may refer to: Media * ''Moll Flanders'', a 1722 novel by Daniel Defoe Characters * Moll, a young prostitute in the 1937 musical ''The Cradle Will Rock'' * Moll, an outlaw in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, the fifth season of the TV series ''Star Trek: Discovery'' * Moll Hackabout, protagonist in William Hogarth's 1730s series of paintings and engravings, ''A Harlot's Progress'' People Given name * Moll Anderson, inspirational interior designer, life stylist, author, and former singer * Moll Anthony (1807–1878), Irish ''bean feasa'' * Æthelwald Moll of Northumbria (), King of Northumbria * Moll Davis (1708), a courtesan and mistress of King Charles II of England * Moll Dyer (died ), a legendary 17th-century resident of Leonardtown, Maryland * Mary Frith (also Moll Cutpurse; (1659), notorious English pickpocket and fence * Moll King (coffee house proprietor) (1696–1747), a prominent figure in London's underworld * Moll O'Driscoll (1922–1988), Irish Gaelic foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartholomew Gilbert
Captain Bartholomew Gilbert was an English mariner who in 1602 served as co-captain on the first recorded European expedition to Cape Cod. His decisions resulted in that expedition's failure to establish a colony there. Voyage to Cape Cod Gilbert served aboard ''The Concord'', a small bark which sailed out of Dartmouth, Devon, to establish a colony in New England, which was then known as Northern Virginia and was considered a part of the Colony of Virginia. The ship's captain was Bartholomew Gosnold, an experienced seaman who had sailed with Walter Raleigh and who was related to Gilbert on Gosnold's father's side. ''The Concord'' had 32 men on board and sailed due west from the Azores to New England, arriving in May 1602 at Cape Elizabeth in Maine at the latitude 43 degrees and skirted the coastline for several days before anchoring in York Harbor, Maine, on 14 May 1602. The next day, they sailed into Provincetown Harbor and named it Cape Cod. Following the coastline for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (, 1743July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the United States Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was the nation's first United States Secretary of State, U.S. secretary of state under George Washington and then the nation's second vice president of the United States, vice president under John Adams. Jefferson was a leading proponent of democracy, republicanism, and Natural law, natural rights, and he produced formative documents and decisions at the state, national, and international levels. Jefferson was born into the Colony of Virginia's planter class, dependent on slavery in the colonial history of the United States, slave labor. During the American Revolution, Jefferson represented Virginia in the Second Continental Congress, which unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Atlantic Hurricanes In The 17th Century
The List of Atlantic hurricanes in the 17th century encompasses all known and suspected Atlantic tropical cyclones from the 1600 to 1699. Although records of every storm that occurred do not survive, the information presented here originated in sufficiently populated coastal communities and ships at sea that survived the tempests. Records of hurricane activity directly impacting America is very incomplete during the 1600s as colonists were sparse outside of the New England region or not existent until much later in the century or early 1700s, especially in the most hurricane prone regions of the coastal south, Florida and the Keys, and Gulf Coast. 1600–1624 1625–1649 1650–1674 1675–1699 – only paleotempestological evidence See also * List of Atlantic hurricanes *Atlantic hurricane season References Further reading * * * * * * * * * * * * External links *http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdeadlyapp1.shtml *http://www.candoo.com/genresources/hurricane.htm#1600 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ouboutou Tegremante
Tegremante (15?? – 1626) was the Kalinago chief on St Kitts when Sir Thomas Warner (explorer), Thomas Warner arrived by 1623 to establish a colony. He was killed in his sleep during the Kalinago Genocide of 1626. See also *History of Saint Kitts and Nevis References Saint Kitts and Nevis chiefs Saint Kitts and Nevis murder victims People murdered in Saint Kitts and Nevis 1620s deaths Year of birth unknown Kalinago people Indigenous peoples in Saint Kitts and Nevis {{SaintKittsNevis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Style And New Style Dates
Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively. Usually, they refer to the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar as enacted in various Europe, European countries between 1582 and 1923. In England, Wales, Ireland and British America, Britain's American colonies, there were two calendar changes, both in 1752. The first adjusted the start of a new year from 25 March (Lady Day, the Feast of the Annunciation) to 1 January, a change which Scotland had made in 1600. The second discarded the Julian calendar in favour of the Gregorian calendar, skipping 11 days in the month of September to do so.. "Before 1752, parish registers, in addition to a new year heading after 24th March showing, for example '1733', had another heading at the end of the following December indicating '1733/4'. This showed where the Historical Year 1734 started even though the Civil Year 1733 continued until 24th March. ... We as h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal African Company
The Royal African Company (RAC) was an English trading company established in 1660 by the House of Stuart and City of London merchants to trade along the West African coast. It was overseen by the Duke of York, the brother of Charles II of England; the RAC was founded after Charles II ascended to the English throne in the 1660 Stuart Restoration, and he granted it a monopoly on all English trade with Africa. While the company's original purpose was to trade for gold in the Gambia River, as Prince Rupert of the Rhine had identified gold deposits in the region during the Interregnum, the RAC quickly began trading in slaves, who became its largest commodity. Historians have estimated that the RAC shipped more African slaves to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade than any other company. The RAC also dealt in other commodities such as ivory, which were primarily sourced from the Gold Coast region. After William III of England rescinded the company's monopoly in 1697 un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hay, 1st Earl Of Carlisle
James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle Order of the Bath, KB (c. 1580March 1636) was a Scotland, Scottish courtier and English nobleman. Life He was the son of Sir James Hay of Fingask, second son of Peter Hay 3rd of Megginch Castle, Megginch (a branch member of Hay of Leys, a younger branch of the Erroll family) and his wife Margaret, daughter of Crichton of Ruthven.''Historical Account of the Family of Hay of Leys'' (Edinburgh, 1832), pp. 20-1. Accessed January 2020. His mother was Margaret Murray, cousin of George Hay, 1st Earl of Kinnoull, George Hay, afterwards George Hay, 1st Earl of Kinnoull, 1st Earl of Kinnoull. His aunts married well and had two well regarded uncles. His uncle Peter Hay of Megginch married Margaret Ogilvie, daughter of Sir Patrick Ogilvie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letters Patent
Letters patent (plurale tantum, plural form for singular and plural) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, President (government title), president or other head of state, generally granting an office, right, government-granted monopoly, monopoly, title or status to a person or corporation. Letters patent can be used for the creation of corporations, government offices, to grant city status or heraldry, coats of arms. Letters patent are issued for the appointment of representatives of the Crown, such as governors and governor-general, governors-general of Commonwealth realms, as well as appointing a Royal Commission. In the United Kingdom, they are also issued for the creation of peers of the realm. A particular form of letters patent has evolved into the modern intellectual property patent (referred to as a utility patent or design patent in United States patent law) granting exclusive rights in an invention or design. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James VI And I
James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and King of Ireland, Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until Death and funeral of James VI and I, his death in 1625. Although he long tried to get both countries to adopt a closer political union, the kingdoms of Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland and Kingdom of England, England remained sovereign states, with their own parliaments, judiciaries, and laws, ruled by James in personal union. James was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and a great-great-grandson of Henry VII of England, Henry VII, King of England and Lord of Ireland, and thus a potential successor to all three thrones. He acceded to the Scottish throne at the age of thirteen months, after his mother was forced to abdicate in his favour. Although his mother was a Catholic, James was brought up as a Protestant. Four regents gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Warner (explorer)
Sir Thomas Warner (1580 – 10 March 1649) was a captain in the guards of James I of England who became an explorer in the Caribbean. In 1620 he served at the brief-lived English settlement of Oyapoc in present-day Guyana of South America, which was abandoned the same year. The Dutch controlled most of the territory. Warner is noted for settling on Saint Kitts and establishing it in 1624 as the first English colony in the Caribbean. Early life and education Warner was born in Suffolk, England in 1580. He entered the army at an early age, which provided him with his main training. He later married and started a family with his wife, which included their son Philip. Thomas Warner had an Island Carib mistress on St. Kitts, and their son was called "Indian Warner". Indian Warner was killed in the Dominica Massacre. Military career Warner became a captain in James I's guards. In 1620 he accepted assignment to the colonies, and took his family with him to the Oyapoc Colony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Harcourt (explorer)
Robert Harcourt (1574?–1631) was an English explorer, projector of a South American colony, in what was later Guiana. Life Born about 1574 at Ellenhall, Staffordshire, Harcourt was the eldest son of Sir Walter Harcourt, of Ellenhall and Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, and his with the former Dorothy Robinson. Harcourt began his studies at Oxford University as a gentleman-commoner of St. Alban Hall on 10 April 1590 and stayed there about three years. On 23 March 1609, accompanied by his brother Michael and a company of adventurers, Robert Harcourt sailed for Guiana. On 11 May, he arrived at the Oyapock River. Local people came on board, and were disappointed at the absence of Sir Walter Raleigh after he had visited during his exploration of the area in 1595. Harcourt gave them aqua vitae. He claimed in the king's name of a tract of land lying between the River Amazon and River Essequibo on 14 August, left his brother and most of his company to colonise it, and four days lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
