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British Honduras was a Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1783 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize in June 1973, [2] until September 1981, when it gained full independence as Belize. British Honduras was the last continental possession of the United Kingdom in the Americas.
Map of British possessions in the Caribbean in 1900. Also indicated are the mainland colonies of British Honduras and British Guiana.. The term British West Indies refers to the former English and British colonies and the present-day overseas territories of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean.
Disputed territory between Belize and Guatemala There is an unresolved territorial dispute between the states of Belize (formerly known as British Honduras) and Guatemala, neighbours in Central America. During the late 1600s and throughout the 1700s, Britain and Spain signed several treaties regarding territories in the Americas. Both nations agreed that the territory of modern-day Belize was ...
An 1888 map (British Honduras, Usher, 1888) identifies a number of proposed routes for a Belize (city) to Guatemala Railway. A 1920's map, Railroad Map of British Honduras identifies five railways / tramways: Belize Estate & Produce Co Ltd (Gallon Jug Railway), located in Belize District, north west of Belize City, off Black Creek. [1]
From the arrival of the first British settlers in 1627–1628 until independence in 1966, Barbados was under uninterrupted British control. [6] British Honduras (Belize)" English buccaneers began cutting logwood (Haematoxylum campechianum), which was used in the production of a textile dye. English buccaneers began using the coastline as a base ...
The exception was the Western Caribbean Zone, which included the Caribbean coast and encompassed both semi-independent indigenous polities, runaway slave communities, and settlers, especially British settlers who would eventually form British Honduras (the modern-day nation of Belize), a sparsely populated area that was inhabited by the British ...
1] This is a list of viceroys in British Honduras and Belize from the start of British settlement in the area until the colony's independence in 1981. Until 1862, the territory was under the vice-regency of the Governor of Jamaica , and administered by a Superintendent.
British Honduras in World War II (2 C, 4 P) Pages in category "History of British Honduras" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.