History of Saint Kitts and Nevis

The history of Saint Kitts and Nevis deals with the history of the Caribbean state of St. Kitts and Nevis, which is independent of the UK since 1983.

History before Columbus

First groups already settled about 3000 years before Christ to Saint Kitts and Nevis. In the following millennia, many tribes, such as the Arawaks settled down and left the islands each after some time. Around 1300 AD, settled on the Caribbean Sea Saint Kitts and Nevis. They were the last tribe that lived here before colonization.

Colonization of Europeans (1493-1783)

In his second Caribbean voyage, Christopher Columbus discovered the islands for Europe. He called Saint Kitts first Sant Iago. The name Nevis can be derived from the Spanish " Nieves " to German snow, as the summit of Nevis Peak was overcast on arrival. Sedentary first was a group of French Huguenots from Dieppe in 1538. However, these were sold quickly. 1624 founded the English Captain Thomas Warner on Nevis Saint the first British colony in the Caribbean. The inhabitants there were initially no conflicts. Came a year later, under the leadership of Pierre d' Belain Esnambuc the French on the island after they had heard how successful were the British with their colony. Thomas Warner allowed the French island mitzubewohen and turned at the same time more and more of the population from the Caribbean.

1626 planned this an attack on the Europeans, to drive them back. The Europeans got the but before the implementation of the act and brought with the Caribs either, or enslaved them. Saint Kitts was now entirely in French and British hands, where the latter was the center of the island and the French, the South and the North. In subsequent years, many Africans were imported for the successful production of tobacco and sugar cane and abused as slaves. A colonization began on Nevis in 1628 by the British Anthony Hilton, because of a murder plot against him, fled from Saint Kitts. Quick developed here the tobacco and sugar production, which was also a source of wealth in Britain. In 1674, Nevis was formed together with Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Antigua a federation British island colonies. After several changes of ownership between France and England, Saint Kitts and Nevis in 1783 was definitively incorporated into British and the British Empire.

1882 Anguilla was connected to the two countries.

1883 to today

Was Saint Kitts times the richest British colony by the sugar industry, plunged the world economic crisis 1929/1930 both islands in a major economic crisis. 1930 parties were founded, such as the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party, and in 1952 universal suffrage introduced. In 1967, the Islands, an autonomous territory of the United Kingdom. Anguilla would then emerge from the Confederacy and did so well in 1971, with the support of the opposition party of Saint Kitts and Nevis, the People's Action Movement. Saint Kitts and Nevis were on September 19, 1983 final independence from Britain and thus an independent state. Nevis wanted to secede in 1998, but failed in a vote on the two-thirds majority.

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