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Curacao: Key Historical Dates and Events

1646-64 - Curacao administered from New Netherlands
1648 - Treaty of Munster, recognized Dutch independence, ended eighty years of war
1662 - Curacao made center for the Atlantic slave trade
1675 - Curacao declared a free port
1700s - 1800s - Private merchants granted right to participate in slave trade by WIC; Curacao home of one of the
oldest permanent Jewish settlements
1791 - Dutch West India Company dissolved
1795 - Island’s largest slave uprising at Kenepa Plantation led by slaves Tula and Carpata
1800 - Curacao came under British protectorate
1802 - Curacao returned to Dutch control
1807 - British captured Curacao
1815 - Curacao returned to Dutch control
1863 - Slavery abolished in Curacao