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Name: grenada

Type: Cluster

Start: 1651 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:

  • Grenada (France)
  • Grenada (Great Britain)
  • Grenada
  • Establishment


  • January 1651: Following several unsuccessful attempts by Europeans to colonise Grenada, due to resistance from the Island Caribs, French settlement and colonisation began in 1650 and continued for the next century.
  • Chronology


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    1. Seven Years´ War


    Was a global conflict that involved most of the European great powers, and was fought primarily in Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. At the end of the war the main winner was Great Britain, that obtained territories in North America, the Caribbean and India, becoming the most powerful maritime and colonial of the European powers.

    1.1.British expedition against Martinique

    Was the British invasion of French Martinique during the Seven Years' War.

  • March 1762: Between 26 February and 3 March, British detachments arrived at the islands Saint Lucia, Grenada and Saint Vincent, all of which fell without resistance.

  • 1.2.Treaty of Paris (1763)

    Was a treaty signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Great Britain and Prussia's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War.

  • February 1763: Grenada was ceded to the British under the Treaty of Paris.

  • 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-French War (1778-1783)

    Was a war between France, allied to the United States, and Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War.

  • July 1779: The French army captured Grenada.
  • September 1783: Grenada and Saint Vincent were captured by the French during the American Revolutionary War. The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which ended the war, required France to return both territories to Britain.

  • 3. United States invasion of Grenada


    The United States and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada. The invasion was caused by seizure of power by the Revolutionary Military Council.

  • October 1983: The last pockets of resistance in Grenada are neutralised by U.S. forces.
  • December 1983: In mid-December, the United States withdrew its troops from Grenada.

  • 4. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • March 1967: On 3 March 1967, Grenada was granted full autonomy over its internal affairs as an associated state.

  • Selected Sources


  • Treaty of Paris (1763), https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1763)
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