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On the fourth day of the first Test match at Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's, Antigua during India's tour of West Indies, 2006, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's flick off Dave Mohammed to the midwicket region was caught by Daren Ganga.
Other introductions include the release on Antigua — possibly before 1916, although there are suggestions that this initial population may have died out by 1934 and been reintroduced at a later date — and Montserrat, which saw an introduction before 1879 that led to the establishment of a solid population, which was apparently sufficient to survive the Soufrière Hills volcano eruption in 1995.
One year later, " Captain " Culliford, a notorious pirate, stole Kidd's ship while he was ashore at Antigua in the West Indies.
The capital of the Spanish Captaincy General of Guatemala, covering most of modern Central America, was moved here after a series of earthquakes — the Santa Marta earthquakes that started on July 29, 1773 — destroyed the old capital, Antigua Guatemala.
In 1549, the capital was moved to Antigua, Guatemala, and Honduras and remained a province within the Captaincy General of Guatemala until 1821.
In September 1510, the first permanent European settlement, Santa María la Antigua del Darién on the Americas mainland was founded.
On August 28, 1513, the Santa María de La Antigua del Darién mission was erected with Fray Juan de Quevedo as the first Catholic Bishop in the continental Americas.
In 1671, English Saint Kitts was joined with Nevis, Antigua and Montserrat to form the Leeward Caribee Island Government, headquartered in Antigua.
In 1806, the Leeward Islands Caribee government was split into two groups, with Antigua, Barbuda, Redonda and Montserrat in one group, and St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands in the other.
During the 18th century, Antigua was used as the headquarters of the British Royal Navy Caribbean fleet.
In each case widespread damage was averted by bringing in reinforcements for the local authorities from Antigua and, in 1890, from St. Thomas.
The former was used as a base for British colonisation of neighbouring Nevis ( 1628 ), Antigua ( 1632 ), Montserrat ( 1632 ), Anguilla ( 1650 ) and Tortola ( 1672 ).
It was, however, administered not by the viceroy or his deputies, but by an independently appointed Captain General headquartered first in Antigua Guatemala and later in Guatemala City.
FluxHousing Co-Operatives continued to redevelop the area over the next decade, and were widened to include plans to set up a FluxIsland-a suitable island was located near Antigua, but the money to buy and develop it remained unforthcoming-and finally a performance arts centre called the FluxFarm established in New Marlborough, Massachusetts.
The defunct BBC World Service Antigua Relay Station was built in 1976, but its setup costs were not known to have been part of the BBCWS decision processes at the time.
* Thomas H. Anderson, Jr., Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, St. Vincent, and St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1984 to 1986, was born in Gulfport.
At the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the thrones of seven independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms ; however, after the births of two children to his elder brother, and an evolution of the Commonwealth, Prince Andrew is currently fourth in line to the thrones of 16 countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
He was finally successful on November 8, 1755 when he sold in North Carolina to two merchant brothers from the island of Antigua, Simon and Francis Farley.
This was a series of highs and lows: Brian Lara of the West Indies compiled a world record of 375 against them at Antigua ; England was bowled out for 46 to lose the third Test ( and with it the series ) but then roared back at Bridgetown to win the 4th Test thanks to two centuries from Alec Stewart.
Political opposition was expressed in a number of colonies, including Barbados and Antigua, and by absentee landowners living in Britain.

Antigua and first
The government of Antigua and Barbuda have announced that they have plans to convert their country to the metric system by the first quarter of 2015.
On August 15, 1519, Pedrarias, having abandoned Santa María la Antigua del Darién, moved the capital of Castilla del Oro with all its organizational institutions to the Pacific Ocean's coast and founded Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Panamá ( present day Panama City ), the first European settlement on the shores of the Pacific.
* Antigua and Barbuda is first colonized by England.
Sir Christopher Codrington established the first large sugar estate in Antigua in 1674, and leased Barbuda to raise provisions for his plantations.
The Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ), formed by Bird and other trade unionists, first ran candidates in the 1946 elections and became the majority party in 1951 beginning a long history of electoral victories.
The Spanish founded San Sebastian de Uraba in 1509 — abandoned within the year, and in 1510 the first permanent Spanish mainland settlement in America, Santa María la Antigua del Darién.
" In 1995, Orlando Antigua became the first Hispanic and the first non-black on the Globetrotters ' roster since Bob Karstens played with the squad in 1942-43.
Sir Vere Cornwall Bird Sr. ( 9 December 1910, St. John's – 28 June 1999, St. John's ) was the first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda.
He formed the Antigua Labour Party and became the first and only chief minister, first and last premier, and first prime minister from 1981 to 1994.
On 1 November 1981, he became the first Prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda.
In 1967, Antigua became the first Eastern Caribbean island to receive the associated statehood constitution from Britain that gave internal self-government but with London remaining responsible for foreign policy and defence.
Baldwin Spencer became the first Prime Minister from outside the Antigua Labour Party in its history as an independent state.
La Antigua is regarded as the first real Spanish town in Mexico.
La Antigua also has one of the oldest Spanish structures in Mexico, the Edificio del Cabildo, also built in 1523, which seated the first ayuntamiento or city council.
Australia comfortably qualified for the Super Eights with their first match played at the new Antigua Recreation Ground in Antigua.

Antigua and settled
The English settled Nevis ( 1628 ), Antigua ( 1632 ), Montserrat ( 1632 ) and later Anguilla ( 1650 ) and Tortola ( 1672 ).
This Josiah Martin's uncle, also Josiah Martin ( 1699-1778 ) but born in Antigua, left Antigua after 1750 and settled at Far Rockaway, Long Island.
The first inhabitants of what is now Béjar were the Vettones who settled an area to the south of the city now known as La Antigua around 400 BC.

Antigua and by
Since the 1951 general election, the party system has been dominated by the personalist Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ), dominated by the Bird family, particularly Prime Ministers Vere and Lester Bird.
As head of state, Queen Elizabeth II is represented in Antigua and Barbuda by a governor general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.
Built in 1826-33 by Antonio de Echevarría in the purest Neo-classical style, this building contains within it the Church of Santa María la Antigua, which is presently used as the plenary meeting hall of the General Assemblies of Biscay.
Also, William Hammet ( a missionary ordained by Wesley who traveled to America from Antigua with Bishop Coke ), led a successful revolt against the MEC in 1791.
* Antigua, Guatemala is destroyed by an earthquake, and the capital of Guatemala is moved to Guatemala City.
Since the early days of colonisation, Anguilla had been administered by the British through Antigua, with Anguilla also having its own local council.
The bulk of the Arawaks left Antigua about 1100 A. D. Those who remained were subsequently raided by the Caribs.
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 riots were eventually suppressed with military assistance from St. Thomas, and reinforcements of British troops dispatched by the Governor of the Leeward Islands from Antigua.
The party abandoned the colony to sail to the more prosperous colony of Santa Maria la Antigua de Darién, a colony established by the conquistador Balboa without the knowledge of Nicuesa.
After the failed effort to found Antigua del Darién in 1506 by Alonso de Ojeda and the subsequent unsuccessful founding of San Sebastián de Urabá in 1517 by Diego de Nicuesa, the southern Caribbean coast became unattractive to colonizers.

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