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Barbados is an island country in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, situated about 100 miles (160 km) east of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.Roughly triangular in shape, the island measures some 21 miles (34 km) from northwest to southeast and about 14 miles (23 km) from east to west at its widest point.
This is a timeline of Barbadian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Barbados and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Barbados and History of the Caribbean. See also the list of governors and prime ministers of Barbados
The Holetown Monument, commemorating initial English claim and later settlement of Barbados. In 1625, Holetown (formerly as St. James Town) was the site of initial English settlement of Barbados (although Captain Cataline had previously landed to collect water in 1620).
According to historian Russell Menard, "Since Barbados was the first English colony to write a comprehensive slave code, its code was especially influential." [13] The Barbados Slave Code served as the basis for the slave codes adopted in several other British American colonies, including Colony of Jamaica]], Carolina (1696), Georgia, and ...
A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (1673) The earliest printed map of Barbados by Ligon. Richard Ligon (1585?–1662), an English author, lost his fortune as a royalist during the English Civil War (1642-1651), and during this turbulent time in England he found himself, as he notes in his narrative, a "stranger in my own country.”
The name "Barbados" is from either the Portuguese term os barbados or the Spanish equivalent, los barbados, both meaning "the bearded ones". [12] [13] It is unclear whether "bearded" refers to the long, hanging roots of the bearded fig-tree (Ficus citrifolia), a species of banyan indigenous to the island, or to the allegedly bearded Kalinago (Island Caribs) who once inhabited the island, or ...
Barbados history-related lists (8 P) A. Archives in Barbados (3 P) B. History of Bridgetown (1 C) D. Defunct organisations based in Barbados (3 C) E.
Hurricane Tomas near Barbados on October 30. October 30, 2010 – Hurricane Tomas skirts the southern coast of Barbados as a strong tropical storm. [9] Upon striking the island and the rest of the Windward archipelago, Tomas becomes the latest hurricane on record in a calendar year to impact the region.