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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 ...
Dominica gained prominence on the international music stage when in 1973, Gordon Henderson founded the group Exile One and an original musical genre, which he called "Cadence-lypso". This paved the way for modern Creole music. Other musical genres include "Jing ping" and "Cadence". Jing ping features the accordion and is native to the island.
Time in office 1 Frank Baron (1923–2016) — ... This is a graphical lifespan timeline of prime ministers of Dominica. They are listed in order of office. See also
Category: History of Dominica by period. 9 languages. ... Years in Dominica (6 C) This page was last edited on 16 July 2019, at 02:53 (UTC). Text ...
Time in office — Sir Louis Cools-Lartigue (1905–1993) — 3 November 1978 16 January 1979 74 days Independent: 1 Fred Degazon (1913–2008) [a] — 16 January 1979 29 January 1980 1 year, 13 days Independent — Sir Louis Cools-Lartigue (1905–1993) [b] — 15 June 1979 16 June 1979 1 day Independent — Jenner B. M. Armour (1932–2001 ...
Nation-building is a long evolutionary process, and in most cases the date of a country's "formation" cannot be objectively determined; e.g., the fact that England and France were sovereign kingdoms on equal footing in the medieval period does not prejudice the fact that England is not now a sovereign state (having passed sovereignty to Great ...
Category: History of Dominica. 31 languages. ... History of Dominica by period (5 C) History of Dominica by topic (3 C) B. History books about Dominica (1 P) E.
On the geologic time scale, the Holocene epoch starts at the end of the last glacial period of the current ice age (c. 10,000 BC) and continues to the present. The beginning of the Mesolithic is usually considered to correspond to the beginning of the Holocene epoch.