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Name: Bermuda

Type: Polity

Start: 1610 AD

End: 2022 AD

Parent: great britain

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Is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. The Bermuda archipelago consists of 181 islands with a total land area of 54 km2 (21 sq mi). The closest land outside the territory is in the US state of North Carolina, approximately 1,035 km (643 mi) to the northwest. Bermuda was settled by British colonists in 1609.

Establishment


  • January 1610: A a flotilla of seven ships left England under the company's admiral, Sir George Somers to relieve the colony of Jamestown. However the flotilla was broken up by a storm and landed in Bermuda. They started a new settlement here, and Bermuda was claimed for the English Crown.
  • 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)


  • 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.

  • Selected Sources


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