Anguilla (Great Britain)

This article is about the specific polity Anguilla (Great Britain) and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean.

Establishment

January 1651: In 1650, British colonization of Anguilla began, marking the territory's transition to becoming part of Great Britain.

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. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1667: French occupation of Anguilla.

July 1667: Anguilla returned to English control under the terms of the Treaty of Breda.

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 1883: Anguilla was federated with St Kitts and Nevis in 1882.

January 1972: Anguilla separated out of this arrangement, after an armed raid on Saint Kitts.