Before the arrival of Europeans and Africans in the 16th century, various Amerindian groups passed through or settled on St. Vincent and the Grenadines, including the Ciboney, Arawak, and Carib peoples.

The decline of these kingdoms can be explained by internal rivalries, then by the arrival of Europeans, who organized the mass exodus of young Africans to the New World.

Approximately 1. 2 – 2. 4 million Africans died during their transport to the New World More died soon upon their arrival.

Immediately before their arrival on shore, or very soon after, many enslaved Africans revolted against their captors, or participated in mass maroonage, or desertion.

John Rolfe, the widower of Pocahontas, wrote in a letter that he was at Point Comfort and witnessed the arrival of the first Africans.

The roots of the genre lay in the arrival of enslaved Africans, who, not being allowed to speak to each other, communicated through song.

The arrival of a number of South Africans to the squad caused the club to be strongly criticised as they were seen to be swaying away from being an English club.

Although the Bantu Africans from Angola were considered indentured servants, their arrival is considered to mark the beginning of slavery in America.

Further evidence of Chinese athletes ' drug use came in 1997 when Australian authorities confiscated 13 vials of Somatropin, a human growth hormone, from the bag of Chinese swimmer Yuan Yuan upon her arrival for the 1997 World Swimming Championships.

By the time of the Tang Dynasty five-hundred years after Buddhisms arrival into China, it had transformed into a thoroughly Chinese religious philosophy dominated by the school of Zen Buddhism.

Illustration of Marco Polo's arrival in a China | Chinese city

The history of Brunei before the arrival of Magellan's ships is based mostly on speculation and the interpretation of Chinese sources and local legends.

The Tibetan scholar Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa believes that the tradition is in error and that " those histories reporting the arrival of Chinese troops are not correct " and claims that the event is mentioned neither in the Chinese annals nor in the manuscripts of Dunhuang.

These skeptical iconoclasts formed a new segment of Chinese society, a modern intelligentsia, whose arrival, or as lauded historian of China Maurice Meisner would label it, their defection, heralded the beginning of the destruction of the gentry as a social class in China.

Beginning with the arrival of Dutch merchants in 1624, the traditional lands of the aborigines have been successively colonized by Dutch, Spanish, Han ( from both the Ming and Qing dynasties ), Japanese, and Taiwanese ( the Chinese Nationalist government, or Kuomintang ) rulers.

It is the Vietnamese New Year marking the arrival of spring based on the Chinese calendar, a lunisolar calendar.

In 1406, The Yongle Emperor responded to several formal petitions from members of the ( now deposed ) Trần Dynasty, however on arrival to Vietnam, both the Tran prince and the accompanying Chinese ambassador were ambushed and killed.

A center of immigration and the center of the Spanish Viceroyalty, Lima has incorporated dishes brought from the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors and waves of immigrants: African, European, Chinese, and Japanese.

The year 1296 marked the arrival at Angkor of the Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan.

Chinese miners took over from whites when the mines began to play out in 1868, and the town saw a brief revival after the arrival of the railroads and the establishment of a post office in the 1880s.

Its inscription, written by a Syrian monk almost a thousand years earlier and in both Chinese characters and Persian script, begins with the words, " Let us praise the Lord that the faith has been popular in China "; it told of the arrival of a missionary, A-lo-pen ( Abraham ), in AD 625.

It is the Vietnamese New Year marking the arrival of spring based on the Chinese calendar, a lunisolar calendar.

Hainan Island first enters written Chinese history in 110 BC, when the Han Dynasty established a military garrison there following the arrival of General Lu Bode ( 路博德 ).

Hence, while many observers of the Chinese civil war thought that the fall of Hainan Island to the Communists would be followed shortly by the fall of Taiwan Island, the lack of any communist guerrilla force on Taiwan Island and its sheer distance from the mainland made this impossible, as did the arrival of the US 7th fleet in the Taiwan Strait after the outbreak of the Korean War in June.

The arrival of African and Chinese immigrants in the 19th century also resulted in the development of Creole cuisine in the city of Lima, where the vast majority of these immigrants settled.

Ecliptical mountings of this sort were found on the armillary instruments of Zhou Cong and Shu Yijian in 1050, as well as Shen Kuo's armillary sphere of the later 11th century, but after that point they were no longer employed on Chinese armillary instruments until the arrival of the European Jesuits.

Chinese records dating from the 3rd century C. E., beginning with the Sānguó zhì 三國志 ( Records of Three Kingdoms ) completed in AD 289 by Chén Shòu 陳壽 ( 233 – 297 ), record the arrival of two Funanese embassies at the court of Lǚ Dài 呂待, gover ­ nor in the southern Chinese kingdom of Wú 吳: the first embassy arrived between 225 and 230 AD, the second in the year 243.

The first documented translation of Buddhist scriptures into Chinese occurs in 148 CE with the arrival of the Parthian prince-turned-monk An Shigao ( Ch.

The arrival of Kumārajīva also set a standard for Chinese translations of Buddhist texts, effectively doing away with previous concept-matching systems.

The Qilin () is a mythical hooved Chinese chimerical creature known throughout various East Asian cultures, and is said to appear with the imminent arrival or passing of a wise sage or an illustrious ruler.

Although the area was originally settled in 1733, Moncton is considered to have been officially founded in 1766 with the arrival of Pennsylvania Dutch immigrants from Philadelphia.

After November 1942 and the arrival of Italian troops occupying the city, a certain ambivalence remained among the population, many recent immigrants of Italian ancestry.

At the beginning of the 20th century, this rise intensified with the arrival of internal immigrants from the County of Nice itself.

Works to dry the numerous waste lands and the reprise of mining activities favoured the arrival of settlers and immigrants, from Veneto, and after the World War II Istrians and Dalmatians, from Yugoslavia.

A group of Loyalists from the state of New York, fleeing the aftermath of the American Revolution, were added to the immigrants upon their arrival in the neighbouring colony of Nova Scotia.

The U. S. Army often recruited Irishmen and other immigrants into military service shortly or sometimes immediately on arrival.

Themes of exclusion of non-European immigrants was largely brought into the party in 1978, with the arrival of Jean-Pierre Stirbois and his " solidarist " group.

In 1932, Argentina required immigrants to have a labour contract prior to arrival, or proof of financial means of support.

Aboriginal Americans were eating the American chestnut species, mainly Castanea dentata and some others, long before European immigrants introduced their stock to America, and before the arrival of chestnut blight.

With the arrival of immigrants from other urban centers from the 1930s-1940's, their expertise was used to consolidate industrialization as the main economic activity in the city.

The daily arrival of new immigrants continued the growth of the community.

The southern side of the county, covered in thick forest, was untouched until the population began to expand in the 1840s with the arrival of German immigrants.

For immigrants from the mid-west Dust Bowl in the 1930s it was the first town, marking arrival in California.

The arrival of the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad in 1890 brought many new immigrants from points north.

Spanish Lake became a well-developed neighborhood with the arrival of German immigrants.

By this time, the area was witnessing a period of urbanization, as an extensive trolley system was developed by the North Hudson County Railway, spurred by both electrification in 1890 and the arrival of Irish and Italian immigrants, which dominated the city until the late 1960s.

This history traces the evolution of the village through successive periods beginning with the original English, Scottish and Welsh settlers and the establishment of their religious, cultural and social patterns, to the arrival of French-Canadian workers in the 1870s and 1880s, followed by Polish, Italian and Syro-Lebanese immigrants between 1890 and 1920.

Prior to the arrival of European immigrants in the 1800s, little is known about Native American settlements in the Gaston area.

In the wake of the arrival of the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad in 1857, a large number of immigrants came to Plymouth to work in the coal mines and, as the population grew, it became more diverse.

By 1880, a new mix was added to the population of Plymouth with the arrival of immigrants from Eastern Europe.

Perhaps due to arrival of immigrants, including some Jews, in the late-19th century, Luling began a long, slow, period of growth and by 1925 the population reached 1, 500.

The location of the railway and inexpensive real estate led to the arrival of Arab, Bohemian, German, Greek, and Italian immigrants in several waves.

Part of the growth of the late 19th century can be attributed to the arrival of various immigrants, among them Jews, many of whom became merchants and peddlers.

As in many other parts of Australia, Fremantle has seen a rise in popularity of association football ( soccer ) since the arrival of Southern European immigrants.