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Name: st. thomas

Type: Cluster

Start: 1658 AD

End: 1693 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • St. Thomas (Netherlands)
  • St. Thomas (Brandenburg)
  • Establishment


  • January 1658: The Dutch West India Company, a trading company established by the Dutch government, established a post on Saint Thomas in 1657.
  • Chronology


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    1. Events


  • January 1672: The Danish West India Company resettled St. Thomas, establishing Fort Christiansfort.

  • November 1685: The Brandenburg Navy-General Director Benjamin Raule signed a rental agreement with the Danish West India Company.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1694: In 1693 the Brandenburg section of Saint Thomas was seized by the Danes without any resistance or repayment.
  • Selected Sources


  • Larsen, K. (1940): Guvernører, Residenter, Kommadanter og Chefer samt enkele andre fremtradende personer i de tidligere Danske Tropokolonier, Copenhagen (Denmark), p. 30
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