* 1798 – The week long battle of St. George's Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize.

In 2009, he bought an island off of mainland Belize on which he is planning to create an eco-friendly resort.

Spearfishing has been implicated in local extinction of some species, including the Atlantic goliath grouper on the Caribbean island of Bonaire, the Nassau grouper in the barrier reef off the coast of Belize, the giant black sea bass in California, and others.

The ‘ New ’ was added later to distinguish it from a small island off British Honduras ( now Belize ) used by pirates.

St. Herman's Blue Hole National Park is a national park located just off the Hummingbird Highway in Cayo District of Belize, near Belmopan, the capital city.

When the new mayor, charismatic Sterling Golden, is implicated in a murder, Brenda flies off to Belize in Central America, in search of the missing green campaigner Verde.

One person was killed off the coast of Belize after being washed off his boat by large swells produced by Carmen.

As it neared the Belize coast, high pressure blocked further westward progress, leading Keith to execute a small loop just off the coast.

At least 49 were killed by Iris, 3 in the Dominican Republic, 4 in Guatemala, 22 in Belize, and 19 from the M / V Wave Dancer, a ship that capsized off the Belize coast.

Employees did not report to work, and water service for much of Belize was turned off.

This storm formed from a disturbance off the north coast of Honduras on October 11 and almost immediately crossed into Belize, heading north up the Yucatan peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico, where it began to move erratically.

The following year Palacio's career took off, buoyed by widely circulated cassette recordings released by Sunrise, and a string of invitations to represent Belize musically at the Festival Internacional de Cultura del Caribe ( Cancun ), Carifesta VI ( Tinindad and Tobago ), Carifesta VII ( St. Kitts-Nevis ), the Rainforest World Music Festival ( Malaysia ), the Antillanse Feesten ( Belgium ), the World Traditional Performing Arts Festival ( Japan ) and countless performances in the United States, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany and Great Britain.

* 2001's Hurricane Iris-struck Belize as a Category 4 storm, killing several in Central America, including 20 on a ship that capsized off the coast.

* 1971's Tropical Storm Laura-a system that formed off Panama, looped south of western Cuba and landed in southern Belize

Caye Caulker is a small limestone coral island off the coast of Belize in the Caribbean Sea measuring about ( north to south ) by less than ( east to west ).

The Great Blue Hole is a large submarine sinkhole off the coast of Belize.

San Pedro Town, which is situated on the island of Ambergris Caye, is also in the Belize District.

San Pedro is the only island in Belize that have a town council.

The island of Ambergris Caye is geographically close to Corozal District, but it is a part of Belize District.

San Pedro is a town on the southern part of the island of Ambergris Caye in the Belize District of the nation of Belize, in Central America.

Ambergris Caye, pronounced, is the largest island of Belize located northeast of the country in the Caribbean Sea.

St. George's Caye is an island in the Caribbean Sea, eight miles east of Belize City.

The British Army maintains an adventure training establishment on the island, allowing members of the British Forces stationed at the nearby British Army Training and Support Unit Belize ( BATSUB ) and their families a chance to take part in such activities as diving and sailing.

The largest of the geological units of this kind is a barrier island, such as occur along the East Coast of the United States, along the Gulf coast, along the southern coast of Belize and many other locations worldwide.

The highway does not have official segments to Belize, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, nor to any of the island nations in the Americas.

They live along the Caribbean Coast in Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras including the mainland, and on the island of Roatán.

It is also known as the gibnut in Belize, where it is prized as a game animal, labba in Guyana, lapa in Venezuela, and lappe on the island of Trinidad.

It struck the island only hours before Storm Five hit Belize.

In the 1990s, the Camel Trophy headed to Siberia and the USSR, followed by Tanzania, Burundi, Guyana, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile ( the " Road to Hell " event ), Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras ( controversially serving 500 out-of-season lobster at a dinner ), Kalimantan ( a thousand miles and 18 rollovers to celebrate the first crossing of the island 100 years previously ) and Mongolia.

Many coral reefs, cays, and islands to the east — such as Ambergris Caye, Lighthouse Reef, Glover Reef, and the Turneffe Islands — are part of Belize's territory, forming the Belize Barrier Reef, the longest in the western hemisphere stemming approximately and the second longest in the world after the Great Barrier Reef.

Most of the Belize District is in the east central mainland of Belize ; the Belize District also includes various offshore islands, including Ambergris Caye, Caye Caulker, St. George's Caye, Caye Chapel, English Caye and Goff's Caye.

The Great Blue Hole, located near Ambergris Caye, Belize.

* Footprints Bay, bay on Ambergris Caye, Belize

The first season of the show was taped on Ambergris Caye in Belize.

By late on October 2, Keith made landfall in Ambergris Caye, Belize as a minimal hurricane.

The Great Blue Hole, near Ambergris Caye, Belize.

* 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 most cases, both airlines have service from the international airport, Philip S. W. Goldson, in Ladyville 9 miles north of Belize City, and from the Belize City Municipal Airport in the city, to San Pedro, Caye Caulker, Dangriga, Placencia, Punta Gorda, and to Flores in Guatemala, and one airline serves Savannah at Big Creek.

In contemporary Belize there has been a resurgence of Garifuna music, popularized by musicians such as Andy Palacio, Mohobub Flores, & Adrian Martinez.

In the larger towns and cities, such as Belize City or Belmopan, there are bus terminals.

As at 2012, there are also 40 British Army personnel stationed in Belize.

Not all archaeological evidence agrees with this conclusion: there are older, unbroken ceramic traditions from Loltun Cave in Yucatán, as well as Cuello in Belize, which suggest alternative Maya homelands.

Always busy in the daytime, there is the hustle and bustle one would associate with a city of 70, 800. Notable cultural events include Garifuna Settlement Day ( November 19 ), Belize City Carnival ( September ), Baron Bliss Day ( March 9 ).

Britain agreed to demolish its fortifications in British Honduras ( now Belize ), but retained a logwood-cutting colony there.

So the Miskito Kingdom, where there were still mahogany trees, became of interest to Belize based traders and wood cutting companies who obtained, in turn concessions and grants from King Robert Charles Frederic.

But there is no evidence that Anna was ever in Belize, and if the skull actually had been excavated at Lubaantun it would be hard to explain why none of the official reports mention it, why other expedition members deny that it was found there, and why the publicity-loving Mitchell-Hedges did not publish even a single mention of the skull before the 1950s.

He believes he is the only player in the country playing a giant, although there are rumors that someone in Belize is playing a Hill Giant assassin.

The organization's administrative headquarters were then shifted to Belize in 1941 when the President-General relocated there from New York.

In contemporary Belize there has been a resurgence of Garifuna music, popularized by musicians such as Andy Palacio, Mohobub Flores, & Adrian Martinez.

Negotiations in 1883 led to a treaty signed on January 11, 1884 in Belize City by a Chan Santa Cruz general and the vice-Governor of Yucatán recognizing Mexican sovereignty over Chan Santa Cruz in exchange for Mexican recognition of Chan Santa Cruz leader Crescencio Poot as Governor of the State of Chan Santa Cruz, but the following year there was a coup d ' état in Chan Santa Cruz, and the treaty was declared cancelled.

In Belize, there exists The Belize Harpy Eagle Restoration Project.

It is safe to say that there will be many more ways and projects through which the practical kindness and affection of Baron Bliss will continue to aid Belize, for years and years to come.

In contemporary Belize there has been a resurgence of Garifuna music, popularized by musicians such as Andy Palacio, Mohobub Flores and Adrian Martinez.

From there they spread up and down the coast of Central America, communities being found from Nicaragua to Belize.

Belize is considered part of the southern Maya lowlands of the Mesoamerican culture area, and the sites found there were occupied from the Preclassic ( 2000 BCE – 200 CE ) until and after the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century.

From there it will often continue westward into Nicaragua, Honduras, or Belize.

Newspapers have reported an additional 30 deaths in Belize, but the government there has only confirmed the 20 deaths from the Wave Dancer.

Despite the severity of the damage, there were no reports of fatalities in Belize.

They are found in French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad ( however there has been a lack of recent sightings ), Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico, Trinidad, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico.

Belize has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.