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1832 -Large number of Garifuna arrive in tive Council represent landed interests. 1954 -Vote for all adults.
Belize (Garifuna settlement day). 1894 -Constables mutiny. Belizeans workers 1964 -Self Government.
1834/38 -Slavery abolished. Land ordered to riot for better pay. 1968 -The “Webster Proposals”: Draft treaty
be sold and no longer issued free. 1906 -Belize City gets electricity. presented by U.S.A. media tor for Anglo-
1847 -War of the Castes in Yucatan sends 1914 -World War I - Many Belizeans volun- Guatemalan dispute, rejected by government
thousands of refugees into Belize. teers served. and people.
1856 -North side of Belize City destroyed by 1919 -Belizean troops riot upon return 1970s -Internalization of Belize’s cause.
fire. home. 1971 -Belize joins CARIFTA. Belmopan be-
1859 -British- Guatemala Treaty over Belize. 1922 -Marcus Garvey visits Belize. comes capital of Belize.
British Honduras Company (later B.E.C.) 1929 -Great Depression begins. 1973 -Country’s name legally changed to
formed. 1931 -Great Hurricane - over 2,000 dead. “Belize”. Aliens Landholding Ordinance
1862 -Belize becomes a Colony of “British passed.
Honduras”.
1865 -Labourers brought from West Indian 1933 -Guatemala re- asserts claim to Belize. 1975 -First pro- Belize resolution passed by
islands and China, especially for work on 1934 -Antonio Soberanis leads workers pro- General Assembly of United Nations.
sugar estates of B.H. Co. tests. 1976 -Belize given “special status” in Non-
1866 -British troops routed by Maya in Yal- 1939 -World War II. Aligned Movement.
bac Hills. 1949 -B.H. dollar devalued. 1981 – Independence Belize joins Common-
1867 -Reinforced British Troops destroy 1950 -Founding of the P.U.P. wealth, United Nations and Non- Aligned
Maya villages and crops in Yalbac. 1952 -National strike led by General Work- Movement.
1871 -Belize declared Crown Colony after ers Union.
Assembly dissolved itself in 1870. Three of
the four unofficial members in new Legisla-
