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* Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands, founded in 1852, merged with the Colony of Vancouver Island in 1863.
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Colony and Queen
The province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria when the Colony of British Columbia, i. e. " the Mainland ", became a British colony in 1858.
* In New England the two separate colonies of Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony are united into a single entity by an act of the King and Queen of England.
The colony was expanded with the addition of the Stikine Territory ( aka Stickeen Territory ) and the Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1863.
The British Act of Parliament separating Victoria from New South Wales, and naming and providing a Constitution for the new Colony, was signed ten years later by Queen Victoria on 5 August 1850.
Caroline County was established in the British Colony of Virginia in 1728 from Essex, King and Queen, and King William counties.
See Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands and Queen Charlottes Gold Rush
The Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands was a British colony constituting the archipelago of the same name ( currently officially named Haida Gwaii ) from 1853 to July 1863, when it was amalgamated into the Colony of British Columbia.
The Queen Charlotte Colony was created by the Colonial Office in response to the increase in American marine trading activity resulting from the gold rush on Moresby Island in 1851.
* Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands
The British study, “ Neonicotinoid Pesticide Reduces Bumble Bee Colony Growth and Queen Production ,” examines the impacts of the pesticide imidacloprid on bumble bee colony health.
He would serve there through the remainder of its service to the Colony, although in 1760 and 1761 he represented Queen Anne's County.
Douglas was named joint governor of the three colonies ( the Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands had been in existence since 1853 and was merged with the Mainland Colony under Douglas ' regime, in 1863 ).
During Queen Anne's War, by 1703, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was offering $ 60 for each native scalp.
A year later, the Stickeen was added to the Colony of British Columbia ( along with the Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands ), except for the sector north of the 60th parallel, which was returned to the North-Western Territory.
* 23 April — A mass meeting is held in Cape Town to petition Queen Victoria to grant the Cape Colony a government
A brief gold rush-the Queen Charlottes Gold Rush-ensued in the following year, leading to the declaration of the Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands to prevent the archipelago from being overrun by Americans and so claimed by the United States.
The Council, formed in 1973, has been involved in many conflicts over the fate of its territories, which have been claimed by Canada since 1871, and by the Colony of British Columbia and the Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands prior to that.
Colony and Charlotte
On May 8, 1822 Edward Everett married Charlotte Gray Brooks, a descendant of John Howland, ( c. 1599 – 1673 ) who was one of the Pilgrims who travelled from England to North America on the Mayflower, signed the Mayflower Compact, and helped found Plymouth Colony.
In the episode, " All Halliwell's Eve ", an evil witch in Colony of Virginia, Ruth Cobb, kidnaps a young woman named Charlotte who is due to give birth to a powerful magical child.
Once Russian and Spanish claims to the Haida Gwaii were given up in treaties with Britain and the United States, the islands continued to be claimed by the United States until the British claim to them was formalized by the creation of the Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1853.
( George Edwin Shelvoke, Harry's brother, married Charlotte and had Gwyneth ( born in Cape Colony, South Africa c1900 ) & William George ( c1907 ; who is believed to have married but had no issue ).
Colony and Islands
Malden was incorporated in the British Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony in 1972, and included in the portion of the colony which became the Republic of Kiribati in 1979.
In 1833, the Leeward Islands were reunited as a single administrative entity, and was renamed the Federal Colony of the Leeward Islands in 1871.
In 1824 the British government placed Anguilla under the administrative control of Saint Kitts, later to become part of the colony of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla ( Saint Christopher being an earlier name for Saint Kitts ), itself a member of the Federal Colony of the Leeward Islands.
Despite earlier settlements by England in The Americas, ( 1607: Jamestown, 1609: Bermuda, and 1620: Plymouth Colony, and closer to Barbadoes the Leeward Islands were claimed by the English at about the same time as Barbados: 1623: St Kitts, 1628: Nevis, 1632: Montserrat, 1632: Antigua.
The Ellice Islands were administered as British protectorate by a Resident Commissioner from 1892 to 1916 as part of the British Western Pacific Territories ( BWPT ), and later as part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony from 1916 to 1974.
The Ellice Islands were administered by Britain as part of a protectorate from 1892 to 1916 and as part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony from 1916 to 1974.
He served as the first black premier of the Colony of the Bahama Islands from 1967 to 1969 and as Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 1969 to 1992.
In 1833 the Windward Islands became a formal union called the Windward Islands Colony.
In 1838, Trinidad ( acquired in 1802 ) and St. Lucia ( acquired in 1814 ) were brought into the Windward Islands Colony, but were not given their own assemblies ( having previously been Crown Colonies ).
The Windward Islands Colony was unpopular as Barbados wished to retain its separate identity and ancient institutions, while the other colonies did not enjoy the association with Barbados ( but needed such an association for defence against French invasions until 1815 ).
From 1885 to 1958 the Windward Islands Colony consisted of Grenada and the Grenadines, St. Vincent and St. Lucia for the entire period.
Dominica joined the Windward Islands Colony in 1940 after having been transferred from the Leewards and remained in the Colony until 1958.
After 1885 the Windward Islands Colony was under one Governor-General in Grenada and each island had its own Lieutenant-Governor and its own assembly ( as before ).
The Windward Islands Colony broke up in 1958 when each island chose to join the new Federation of the West Indies as a separate unit.
Colony and founded
Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620 and an important symbol in American history.
Afrikaner directly translated means " African " and subsequently refers to all Afrikaans speaking people in Africa who have their origins in the Cape Colony founded by Jan Van Riebeeck.
Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newe Towne was one of a number of towns ( including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth ) founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under governor John Winthrop.
Thomas Hooker led a band of followers overland from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded what would become the Connecticut Colony ; other settlers from Massachusetts founded the Saybrook Colony and the New Haven Colony.
Captain Arthur Phillip assumed office as Governor of New South Wales on 7 February 1788, when the Colony of New South Wales, the first British settlement in Australia, was formally founded.
As Cape Colony attracted increasing Dutch and European settlement, the Dutch founded the city of Kaapstad ( Cape Town ).
* 1586 – Thomas Hooker, English-American colonist, founded the Colony of Connecticut ( d. 1647 )
* 1647 – Thomas Hooker, English minister, founded the Colony of Connecticut ( b. 1586 )
Perth was originally founded by Captain James Stirling in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony, and gained city status in 1856 ( currently vested in the smaller City of Perth ).
The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907: a Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the " Mayflower ," ruling elder of the Pilgrim church which founded Plymouth Colony in 1620.
The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907: a Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the " Mayflower ," ruling elder of the Pilgrim church which founded Plymouth Colony in 1620.
The Voortrekkers ( Afrikaans and Dutch for pioneers, literally " those who pull ahead ", " fore-trekkers ") were emigrants during the 1830s and 1840s who left the Cape Colony ( British at the time, but founded by the Dutch ) moving into the interior of what is now South Africa.
Perth was founded as the Swan River Colony in 1829 by British and Irish settlers, though the outpost languished, eventually requesting convict labour to augment its population.
* June 3, 1829 – The Swan River Colony ( later to become the cities of Perth and Fremantle ) is founded in Western Australia.
* 1811: The Red River Colony is founded in Manitoba, Canada.
* June 3 – The Swan River Colony ( later to become the cities of Perth and Fremantle ) is founded in Western Australia.
* September 8 – A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes New College ( Harvard University ) as the first college founded in North America.
* December 28 – Colony of South Australia founded by Captain John Hindmarsh
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