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Name: bahamas

Type: Cluster

Start: 1649 AD

End: 2022 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Bahamas
  • Commonwealth of The Bahamas
  • Establishment


  • January 1649: English colonists from Bermuda settled on the island of Eleuthera.
  • Chronology


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    1. Glorious Revolution


    Was a revolution in England and Scotland that led to the deposition of Catholic King James II.

  • November 1688: By November 1688 William of Orange, who was Stadtholder of the Netherlands, and his wife Mary, were in control of England and Wales. They would later become King and Queen of Great Britain.

  • 2. American Revolutionary War


    Was the war of independence of the United States of America (at the time the Thirteen Colonies) against Great Britain.

    2.1.Anglo-Spanish War (1779-1783)

    Was a war between Spain and Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War.

    2.1.1.Central America (Anglo-Spanish War of 1779-1783)

    Central American theatre of the Anglo-Spanish War (1779-1783).

  • June 1782: The Spanish force was led by Bernardo de Gálvez, a Spanish military leader who played a key role in the American Revolutionary War. The capture of Nassau was part of Spain's efforts to support the American colonies in their fight against British rule.
  • May 1783: In April 1783, the island of Nassau was recaptured by the British forces.

  • 3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • March 1702: As William III of England was also the de facto ruler of the Dutch Republic (as Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic), the Personal Union between Netherlands and Great Britain ended at his death.

  • January 1704: A joint Franco-Spanish expedition briefly occupied Nassau, Bahamas, during the War of the Spanish Succession.

  • February 1704: In 1704, the British successfully retook control of Nassau in the Bahamas from the Spanish, led by Captain John Leake and Captain John Hildesley. This marked a significant victory for the British in the ongoing struggle for control of the Caribbean.

  • January 1777: Under the command of Commodore Esek Hopkins; US Marines, the US Navy occupied Nassau .

  • January 1778: After a few days, the British evacuated the U.S. Marines.

  • July 1973: The Bahamas gained governmental independence in 1973 led by Sir Lynden O. Pindling, with Elizabeth II as its queen.

  • Selected Sources


  • Israel, J. I. (1995): The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, Clarendon Press, pp. 959-960
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