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Name: Cayman Islands

Type: Polity

Start: 1670 AD

End: 2022 AD

Parent: great britain

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Is a self-governing British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is the largest British Overseas Territory in terms of population. England took formal control of the Cayman Islands as a result of the Treaty of Madrid of 1670.

Establishment


  • July 1670: The Treaty of Madrid of 1670 was signed between England and Spain, formalizing England's control over the Cayman Islands and Jamaica.
  • 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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