British Virgin Islands
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Are a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, to the east of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands and north-west of Anguilla. The British started the settlement of the islands in 1672.
Establishment
January 1673: The English privateer Sir Henry Morgan captured the British Virgin Islands in 1672, including the island of Jost Van Dyke. This marked the beginning of British control over the territory, which continues to this day.
January 1673: In 1672, the English captured Tortola from the Dutch.
Chronology
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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.
January 1681: The British annexed the Islands of Anegada and Virgin Gorda.
January 1697: Establishment of the Brandenburg-Prussia Colony of Tertholen on the Caribbean Island of Tortola.
January 1698: Tertholen was transferred to the British Virgin Islands in 1697.
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
