Discover Trinidad & Tobago 2016 — 25th Anniversary Edition
With our 2016 edition (our 27th), we celebrate 25 years of producing Discover Trinidad & Tobago. Published every year since 1991, Discover Trinidad & Tobago is aimed both at international visitors planning a trip to the islands – whether for an eco adventure, business trip, or beach holiday – and at local Trinbagonians looking to know and explore more about their native islands. Our comprehensive coverage of Trinidad and Tobago — from arts and culture to eco adventures, accommodation to sports, planning flights and transportation and more — can help anyone plan anything from a day trip or weekend escape, to a full-on an adventure holiday or leisurely vacation. It might take a lifetime to truly experience all that the islands have to offer, but at least we can show you where to start. For more: http://www.discovertnt.com • http://www.facebook.com/discovertnt
With our 2016 edition (our 27th), we celebrate 25 years of producing Discover Trinidad & Tobago. Published every year since 1991, Discover Trinidad & Tobago is aimed both at international visitors planning a trip to the islands – whether for an eco adventure, business trip, or beach holiday – and at local Trinbagonians looking to know and explore more about their native islands. Our comprehensive coverage of Trinidad and Tobago — from arts and culture to eco adventures, accommodation to sports, planning flights and transportation and more — can help anyone plan anything from a day trip or weekend escape, to a full-on an adventure holiday or leisurely vacation. It might take a lifetime to truly experience all that the islands have to offer, but at least we can show you where to start. For more: http://www.discovertnt.com • http://www.facebook.com/discovertnt
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TIME CAPSULE<br />
c 15,000-1,000 BC: islands part of South America; settled by Amerindians<br />
1498: Christopher Columbus lands in <strong>Trinidad</strong> on July 31, claims<br />
island for Spanish and names it after Catholic Holy Trinity<br />
1596: <strong>Tobago</strong> claimed by British<br />
1627–50: Courlanders settle <strong>Tobago</strong>’s west coast near Plymouth, and<br />
Dutch the east<br />
1699: <strong>Trinidad</strong> First Peoples rebel against Capuchin missionaries<br />
(Arena Uprising)<br />
1757: <strong>Trinidad</strong>’s Spanish governor moves capital to Port of Spain<br />
from St Joseph<br />
1768–9: first <strong>Tobago</strong> Assembly established; Scarborough made island’s<br />
capital<br />
1776: oldest forest reserve in western hemisphere designated in<br />
<strong>Tobago</strong><br />
1781: French seize <strong>Tobago</strong>, convert it to sugar colony<br />
1783: Spanish governor Chacón’s Cedula de Población entices<br />
Catholic white and free coloured settlers to <strong>Trinidad</strong> with<br />
land incentives; rapid development begins<br />
1790: great fire of Scarborough destroys much of downtown; hurricane<br />
ravages island<br />
1797: <strong>Trinidad</strong> captured by Sir Ralph Abercromby’s British fleet<br />
1801: massive slave uprising in <strong>Tobago</strong> quelled<br />
1806: first Chinese workers imported to <strong>Trinidad</strong><br />
1807: slave trading abolished in British empire<br />
1808: great fire of Port of Spain destroys much of the city<br />
1814: <strong>Tobago</strong> ceded to British under Treaty of Paris<br />
1816: six companies of free blacks from the United States (mainly<br />
Baptist) settle in southern <strong>Trinidad</strong>, and one in <strong>Tobago</strong><br />
1834-8: slavery abolished in the British Empire, leading to apprenticeship<br />
(1834) then emancipation (1838)<br />
1834–1917: indentured labour imported to <strong>Trinidad</strong> from other islands,<br />
China, Portugal, Syria, Lebanon, and India<br />
1857: first oil well drilled in <strong>Trinidad</strong> near Pitch Lake<br />
1858–84: <strong>Trinidad</strong> governor criminalises Carnival activities<br />
1881: Canboulay Riots in <strong>Trinidad</strong><br />
1884: Hosay Riots in <strong>Trinidad</strong>; <strong>Tobago</strong>’s sugar industry collapses<br />
1889–98: <strong>Tobago</strong> merged with <strong>Trinidad</strong>; <strong>Tobago</strong> Assembly disbanded<br />
1903: Water Riots in Port of Spain; Red House burns down<br />
1908: commercial oil production begins in southern <strong>Trinidad</strong><br />
1914: first calypso recorded in <strong>Trinidad</strong><br />
1925: first national elections (limited franchise)<br />
1931: Piarco International Airport opens<br />
1935-41: first steelpans emerge in Laventille, <strong>Trinidad</strong><br />
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