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Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Basic timeline of Saint Lucia

This post is a basic timeline of Saint Lucia. There are 9 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Arawak culture arrives (200 - 400 AD)
• Carib culture arrives (800 AD)
• European navigators arrive (16th century)
• France and Britain alternate occupation of Saint Lucia (17th century - 19th century)
• Great Hurricane of 1780
• British Windward Islands occupy Saint Lucia (1838-1885)
• West Indies Federation (1958-1962)
• United Kingdom occupies Saint Lucia (1967-1979)
• Saint Lucia gains independence (1979)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Saint Lucia at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Saint Lucia.)