British Guiana

British Guiana (English British Guiana ) was the name of a colony of the United Kingdom on the northern coast of South America. It forms since 1966 the independent state of Guyana.

Formation

At the beginning of the 17th century there were Dutchman who built first in this area on the rivers Pomeroon, Essequibo and Berbice trading post to barter with the locals. From this and from the first plantings originated the Essequibo and Berbice colonies. From 1745 on the banks of the Demerara, who was one of Essequibo, were used more intensively for the plantation economy. During the second half of the 18th century, this area was an independent character as Demerara.

Dutch Guiana

Together with Suriname, this area on the northern coast of South America under the collective term Dutch Guiana was known.

The individual areas changed from the end of the 18th century several times between the colonial powers Netherlands, Great Britain and France, the owner.

British colony

After the Napoleonic Wars, the colonies Essequibo, Demerara and Berbice fell by the British -Dutch agreement dated August 13, 1814 definitely in the UK.

On July 21, 1831, these three colonies were then assembled as British Guiana.

After slavery was abolished in 1834, the British imported indentured laborers from 1838 primarily from British India as a substitute for the pulling-away from sugar cane plantations Afro - Guyanese.

British Guiana a crown colony in 1928.

In 1953 British troops in British Guiana intervened. Britain feared that the couple Janet and Cheddi Jagan and was founded by her People's Progressive Party wanted (PPP ) Guyana make the communist state.

British Guiana finally reached a state of Guyana on May 26, 1966, independence from Britain, and Guyana on 23 February 1970 on the Republic.