British Honduras

This article is about the specific polity British Honduras 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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British Honduras was a Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1783. It was the first form of the modern country of Belize.

Establishment

January 1639: British Honduras was a British Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1638 to 1964.

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. Mexican Federalist War

Were a series of secessions and revolts against the centralist government of Mexico in the period 1835-1846.

2.1.Caste War of Yucatán

Was a revolt of native Maya people of the Yucatán Peninsula against Hispanic populations.

January 1871: The Maya briefly took Corozal Town in 1870.

September 1872: After the Battle of Orange Walk the maya withdrew to their territories.

3. 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.

January 1787: The British appointed Captain John Moss as the first superintendent of Belize in 1786. This marked the formal establishment of British control over the territory, which was then known as British Honduras.

November 1902: Britain and Mexico, in 1893, agreed on the Rio Hondo as the border between Mexico and British Honduras, which was finalized in 1897.

June 1973: British Honduras renamed Belize.