Belize ( formerly British Honduras ) is a country located on the north eastern coast of Central America and it is the only country in the area where English is the official language, although Creole and Spanish are more commonly spoken.

In 1540, Spain established the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which extended from southern Mexico to Costa Rica, and thus encompassed most of what is currently known as Central America, with the exception of British Honduras ( present-day Belize ).

It was declared a British colony and given the name British Honduras in 1871, gaining independence as Belize in 1981.

* British Honduras

One of the major problems for the Spanish rulers of Honduras, was the activity of the British in northern Honduras, a region over which they had only tenuous control.

The US was worried about the poverty and political instability of Nicaragua, as well as the rival strategic and economic interests of the British government, which controlled both British Honduras ( later Belize ) and the Mosquito Coast.

The British deported more than 5, 000 black Caribs to Roatán, an island off the coast of Honduras.

* 1798 – At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.

1: Newfoundland ; 2: Nova Scotia ; 3: The Thirteen Colonies ; 4: Bermuda ; 5: Bahamas ; 6: British Honduras ( was Spanish c1750: became British in 1798 ); 7: Jamaica ; 8: British Leeward Islands and Barbados

* September 1 – A group of Icaiche Maya under Marcos Canul attack Orange Walk Town in British Honduras ; the British send troops against them.

* September 10 – Battle of St. George's Caye: Off the coast of British Honduras ( now Belize ), a group of British nationals and African slaves defeat a force sent from Mexico to drive them out.

In 1958, a West Indies Federation emerged out of the British West Indies, which with British Guiana ( now Guyana ) and British Honduras ( now Belize ) choosing to opt out of the Federation, left Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago as the dominant players.

The exception was the Western Caribbean Zone, which included the Caribbean coast and encompassed both semi-independent indigenous polities, runaway slave communities, and settlers, especially English settlers who would eventually form British Honduras ( the modern-day nation of Belize ), a sparsely populated area that was leased by the Guatemalans to Great Britain in eschange to construct a highway that they never finished, and stole and kept that land afterwards.

British Honduras for the English and Belice for the Spaniards and Guatemalans gained its independence from Great Britain in 1981 and adopted the name " Belize ", although Guatemala still holds territorial claims over this territory.

The colony was known as ' British Honduras ' until 1973, whereupon its name changed to ' Belize '.

Since Belize was a British colony ( known as British Honduras ) in 1964, Premier George Cadle Price led a delegation to London to seek funds to finance the new capital.

According to Blair ( 1997 ) British Steel faced serious problems at the time of its formation, including obsolescent plants ; plants operating under capacity and thus at low efficiency ; outdated technology ; price controls that reduced marketing flexibility ; soaring coal and oil costs ; lack of capital investment funds ; and increasing competition on the world market.

1, 932 rounds were fired at the British Army, who also faced 211 explosions and 180 nail bombs and who fired 364 rounds in return.

Also faced with opposition within the British establishment to the treatment of captives taken in North America, King George decreed that the men should be sent back to America and treated as prisoners of war.

The British, faced with a deadline for leaving, held elections on March 16, 1952, for a representative Assembly of 68 members, evenly divided between Christians and Muslims.

Learners who wish to use purportedly correct English are in fact faced with the dual standard of American English and British English, and other less known standard Englishes ( including Australian, Scottish and Canadian ).

the indentured labour and other such discriminations faced by Indians in the British colonies.

When the Japanese carried their attack through Burma ( now Myanmar ) to the borders of India in the spring of 1942, the British government, faced by this new military threat, decided to make some overtures to India, as Nehru had originally desired.

At the same time, British policy-makers were afraid if Hitler were “ contained ”, and faced with a collapsing economy he would commit a desperate “ mad dog act ” of aggression as a way of lashing out.

An America completely isolated from the rest of the world would then be faced with the seizure of those of the remaining positions of the British Empire important to the Tripartite Powers ".

As soon as there were New World Puritans, their views on church governance diverged from those remaining in the British Isles, who faced different issues.

The new king, Sri Vikrama Rajasinha faced a British invasion in 1803, but was able to retaliate successfully.

Of course, from the chiefs ' point of view, the dilemma of an honourable ruler faced with British ultimatums can not have been easy.

British historian Isaac Deutscher, in his biography of Trotsky, says that on being faced with the evidence " only the blind and the deaf could be unaware of the contrast between Stalinism and Leninism ".

Some of the Sinhalese community in the UK have faced violence from some British Sri Lankan tamils over the ethnic conflict in the Sri Lankan Civil War.

The British, who deployed large numbers of Indian Army troops under Smuts, faced difficult logistic problems supplying their pursuing army deep in the interior, which they attempted to overcome by the formation of a large Carrier Corps of native porters.

He faced the difficult proposition of organizing a line of battle while sailing against an incoming tide, with winds and land features that would require him to do so on a tack opposite that of the British fleet.

After 1, 000 years of close ties with Tibet, Bhutan faced the threat of British military power and was forced to make serious geopolitical decisions.

The captain of the Admiral Graf von Spee, Hans Langsdorff, believing that his damaged ship was faced with a superior British force, chose to scuttle his ship to spare the lives of his men.

Among the more challenging political dilemmas Wilson faced during his two terms in government and his two spells in Opposition before 1964 and between 1970 and 1974 was the issue of British membership of the European Community, the forerunner of the present European Union.

Second, no British forces would be sent in Swaziland unless the area faced a Boer invasion.

The British force that faced the German paratroopers during the Battle Of Crete in 1941, had artillery elements over the hill of Dexameni in the south of the city.

In Moscow, 28 year old Wells qualified for the final, with a new British record 10. 11 s, where he faced pre-race favourite Silvio Leonard of Cuba.

He also faced legal action in British Columbia court, while Moore filed lawsuits against him and the Canucks organization in Colorado and Ontario courts.

* Deputy Chairman and a director of British American Tobacco ( BAT ) ( 1998 – 2007 ), for which Clarke faced allegations relating to activities of BAT in lobbying the developing world to reject stronger health warnings on cigarette packets and evidence that that corporation had been involved in smuggling and targeting children with advertisements.

The common explanation of the " mythical " German officer ignored the fact that the British tanks were faced with the German 54th Division, one of the few divisions with specialised training in anti-tank tactics and with experience against French tanks in the Nivelle Offensive.