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Name: Curaçao (Dutch Colony)

Type: Polity

Start: 1792 AD

End: 1954 AD

Nation: curaçao

Parent: netherlands

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This article is about the specific polity Curaçao (Dutch Colony) 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 an island in the Caribbean. A Dutch possessions, it was a colony until 1954 when it became part of the Consituent County of the Netherlands Antilles and a Consitutent County of its own in 2010.

Establishment


  • March 1792: Curaçao ceased to be under Dutch West India Company administration in 1792.
  • Chronology


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    1. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars


    Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.

    1.1.French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars - Theatre of war in the overseas colonies

    The theatre of war in the overseas colonies during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

  • September 1800: Curaçao was occupied by the British from 13 September 1800 to 13 January 1803.
  • January 1803: Curaçao was occupied by the British from 13 September 1800 to 13 January 1803.
  • January 1807: Curaçao was occupied by the British from 1 January 1807 to 4 March 1816.
  • March 1816: Curaçao was occupied by the British from 1 January 1807 to 4 March 1816.

  • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • December 1954: By 1954, the Charter of the Kingdom of the Netherlands was established, providing a framework for relations between Aruba and the rest of the Kingdom. This created the Netherlands Antilles, which united all of the Dutch colonies in the Caribbean into one administrative structure.

  • Disestablishment


  • December 1954: By 1954, the Charter of the Kingdom of the Netherlands was established, providing a framework for relations between Aruba and the rest of the Kingdom. This created the Netherlands Antilles, which united all of the Dutch colonies in the Caribbean into one administrative structure.
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