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British Dominica (1763–1978) — a British colony from 1763 to 1871, part of the British Leeward Islands from 1871–1940; part of the British Windward Islands from 1940–58; part of the West Indies Federation from 1958–62; and an associated state of the United Kingdom from 1962–78.
The first written records in the history of Dominica began in November 1493, when Christopher Columbus spotted the island. Prior to European contact, Dominica was inhabited by the Arawak. Dominica was a French colony from 1715 until the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, and then became a British colony from 1763 to 1978. It became an ...
Unlike Guadeloupe and Martinique, the 1763 Treaty of Paris did not return Dominica to France. The French captured and held Dominica island and France during the American War of Independence between 1778 and 1783, after which it was returned to British control. It remained in British hands until its independence in 1978.
This article lists the governors and other administrators of Dominica (where known), during its time as a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain (1761–1778; 1784–1800), the Kingdom of France (1778–1784), and the United Kingdom (1800–1978).
This is a list of newspapers in Dominica. The Chronicle; Dominica News Online [1] This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) See also
British West Indies in 1900 BWI in red and pink (blue islands are other territories with English as an official language). The British West Indies (BWI) were the territories in the West Indies under British rule, including Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada ...
Dominica is a former French and British colony in the Eastern Caribbean, located about halfway between the French islands of Guadeloupe (to the north) and Martinique (to the south). Christopher Columbus named the island after the day of the week on which he spotted it, a Sunday ( domingo in Latin), 3 November 1493.
The Invasion of Dominica (7 September 1778) was a successful French invasion of the island of Dominica in the British West Indies, during the American Revolutionary War.The action took place before British authorities in the Caribbean were aware that France had entered the war as an ally of the United States of America.