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Timeline of Guyana
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Christopher Columbus sights Guyana.
1498
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This is important because it shows that Christopher Columbus was the first person to sight Guyana.
Dutch establish trading posts upriver.
1580
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This shows that the Dutch are finally begginng European settlement.
Dutch West India Company establish a foothold on Guyana.
1620
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It shows the Dutch gaining a foothold on Guyana.
Guyana changes hands several times between the Dutch, French, and British.
1780 - 1813
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The territory was declared the colony of British Guiana.
Britian occupies Guyana during the Napoleonic Wars.
1814
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The British took ruling over Guyana.
A new town named Amsterdam is created constucted in Berbice.
1822
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When Amsterdam was created.
As African slaves gain freedom, labourers from Portugal are imported.
1835
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When African slaves gained freedom.
On August first blacks were fully liberated.
1838
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This shows when blacks were fully free.
Many labourers from India return to their homelands.
1843
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This shows that the labourers got to return to their homelands with greater wealth then before.
Central Guyana is discoverd by a geological survey team.
1870
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It shows when central Guyana was discoverd.