Discover Trinidad & Tobago 2017 (#28)
Published every year since 1991, Discover T&T helps readers discover where to stay, dine, lime, party, and shop; and what to see (including the islands’ best sites) and experience (festivals, arts and culture, sports, and eco escapes), in both islands. There’s also a national calendar of events; info on getting here and getting around; tips for safe and sustainable travel; T&T history and society in a nutshell, maps; and more. For the second edition in the row, the magazine features a distinctive dual-cover design, with one cover for each island — Trinidad's Gasparee Caves (captured by Stephen Reyes) and a leatherback turtle hatchling in Tobago (captured by Giancarlo Lalsingh). Discover T&T is aimed at local and international explorers planning getaways to the islands — whether for an eco adventure, business trip, or beach holiday. For more: http://www.discovertnt.com • http://www.facebook.com/discovertnt
Published every year since 1991, Discover T&T helps readers discover where to stay, dine, lime, party, and shop; and what to see (including the islands’ best sites) and experience (festivals, arts and culture, sports, and eco escapes), in both islands. There’s also a national calendar of events; info on getting here and getting around; tips for safe and sustainable travel; T&T history and society in a nutshell, maps; and more.
For the second edition in the row, the magazine features a distinctive dual-cover design, with one cover for each island — Trinidad's Gasparee Caves (captured by Stephen Reyes) and a leatherback turtle hatchling in Tobago (captured by Giancarlo Lalsingh).
Discover T&T is aimed at local and international explorers planning getaways to the islands — whether for an eco adventure, business trip, or beach holiday. For more: http://www.discovertnt.com • http://www.facebook.com/discovertnt
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T&T history at a glance<br />
c 15,000–1,000 BC: islands part of South<br />
America; settled by Amerindians or<br />
First Peoples<br />
1498: Christopher Columbus lands in<br />
<strong>Trinidad</strong> on July 31, claims island for<br />
Spanish and names it after Catholic<br />
Holy Trinity<br />
1596: <strong>Tobago</strong> claimed by British<br />
1627–50: Courlanders settle <strong>Tobago</strong>’s west<br />
coast near Plymouth, and Dutch<br />
the east<br />
1699: <strong>Trinidad</strong> First Peoples rebel against<br />
Capuchin missionaries (Arena Uprising)<br />
1757: <strong>Trinidad</strong>’s Spanish governor moves<br />
capital to Port of Spain from St<br />
Joseph<br />
1768–9: first <strong>Tobago</strong> Assembly established;<br />
Scarborough becomes island’s<br />
capital<br />
1776: oldest forest reserve in western<br />
hemisphere designated in <strong>Tobago</strong><br />
1781: French seize <strong>Tobago</strong>, convert it to<br />
sugar colony<br />
1783: Spanish governor Chacón’s Cedula<br />
de Población entices Catholic<br />
white and free coloured settlers to<br />
<strong>Trinidad</strong> with land incentives; rapid<br />
development begins<br />
1790: great fire of Scarborough destroys<br />
much of downtown; hurricane ravages<br />
island<br />
1797: <strong>Trinidad</strong> captured by Sir Ralph Abercromby’s<br />
British fleet<br />
1801: massive slave uprising in <strong>Tobago</strong><br />
quelled<br />
1806: first Chinese workers imported to<br />
<strong>Trinidad</strong><br />
1807: slave trading abolished in British<br />
empire<br />
1808: great fire of Port of Spain destroys<br />
much of the city<br />
1814: <strong>Tobago</strong> ceded to British under<br />
Treaty of Paris<br />
1816: six companies of free blacks from<br />
the United States (mainly Baptist)<br />
settle in southern <strong>Trinidad</strong>, and one<br />
in <strong>Tobago</strong><br />
1834–8: slavery abolished in the British<br />
Empire, leading to apprenticeship<br />
(1834) then emancipation (1838)<br />
1834–1917: indentured labour imported to<br />
<strong>Trinidad</strong> from other islands, China,<br />
Portugal, Syria, Lebanon, and India<br />
1857: first oil well drilled in <strong>Trinidad</strong> near<br />
Pitch Lake<br />
1858–84: <strong>Trinidad</strong> governor criminalises Carnival<br />
activities<br />
1881: Canboulay Riots in <strong>Trinidad</strong><br />
1884: Hosay Riots in <strong>Trinidad</strong>; <strong>Tobago</strong>’s<br />
sugar industry collapses<br />
1889–98: <strong>Tobago</strong> merged with <strong>Trinidad</strong>; <strong>Tobago</strong><br />
Assembly disbanded<br />
1903: Water Riots in Port of Spain; Red<br />
House burns down<br />
1908: commercial oil production begins in<br />
southern <strong>Trinidad</strong><br />
1914: first calypso recorded in <strong>Trinidad</strong><br />
1925: first national elections (limited<br />
franchise)<br />
1931: Piarco International Airport opens<br />
1935–41: first steelpans emerge in Laventille,<br />
<strong>Trinidad</strong><br />
1937: oilfield and labour strikes led in<br />
southern <strong>Trinidad</strong> by Tubal Uriah<br />
“Buzz” Butler<br />
1940: Crown Point Airport opens in<br />
<strong>Tobago</strong>; national airline British West<br />
Indies Airways (BWIA) commences<br />
operations<br />
1941: Chaguaramas peninsula leased to<br />
United States for 99 years; American<br />
military remain through World<br />
War II<br />
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