Information
Name: Swedish West India Company
Type: Polity
Nation: saint barthélemy
Start: 1787
End: 1806
Swedish West India Company: All Data
This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.
In 1784, one of Louis XVI's ministers ceded the French Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy to Sweden in exchange for trading rights in the Swedish port of Gothenburg. In the period 1787-1806 the island was administered by the Swedish West India Company.
