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Name: suriname

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:

  • Surinam (Great Britain)
  • Suriname (Colony)
  • Suriname (Constituent County)
  • Republic of Suriname

    • Establishment

  • January 1651: Establishment of british colony of Suriname.

    • Chronology

    Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation

    1. Anglo-Dutch Wars

    Were a series of conflicts mainly fought between the Dutch Republic and England (later Great Britain) from mid-17th to late 18th century.

    1.1.Second Anglo-Dutch War

    Was a conflict between England and the Dutch Republic partly for control over the seas and trade routes.

  • February 1667: A Dutch force under Admiral Abraham Crijnssen, organised by the province of Zeeland, not the States General, arrived at Cayenne in February 1667 and captured Suriname from the English in the same month.
  • November 1667: The English fleet recaptured Fort Zeelandia in Suriname in October.
  • January 1668: British forces leave Suriname as decided in the treaty of Breda (1667).

    • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

  • December 1954: Proclamation of the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

  • November 1975: The country became fully independent as the Republic of Suriname.

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