Bahamas History Timeline & Facts

Information & facts about Bahamas History with a Timeline


Bahamas History Timeline & Facts

The Bahamas History Timeline & Facts is full of interesting facts and history about the bygone times of  the Bahamas Nation. A clear and concise list of dates, history and events in chronological order. The Bahamas History Timeline & Facts outlines and records all of the critical and major incidents in the history of the nation. History, Dates, Kings, Leaders and Wars are all mentioned in the Bahamas History Timeline & Facts. The Bahamas History Timeline & Facts provides a brief and interesting historical record of facts about different events in history.


 

Bahamas History Timeline & Facts

The Ciboney, Arawak and the Carib Indians first inhabited the islands
The Caribs and the Arawaks were tropical forest people who probably originated in South America and were related the people found anywhere from Panama to Brazil
Not discovered by Europeans until 1492 when Christopher Columbus first landed in the New World
Before the arrival of the Spanish the Carib males had a justified reputation as the most feared warriors of the
Caribbean
The Caribs and the Arawaks were progressively wiped out by the after-effects of the Spanish conquest, with the more peaceful Arawak tribes suffering the greater losses
The British settled on the islands in the 17th century
It was made a British colony in 1783
1914 - 1918 WW1
1939 - 1945 WW11
August 1945 The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Arawakan and Cariban words such as avocado, barbecue, buccaneer, canoe, cannibal, hurricane, iguana and maize have become part of the English language
The Bahamas became independent in 1973.

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Bahamas History Timeline & Facts
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Bahamas History Timeline & Facts

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