History

Anguilla officially secedes from Saint Kitts and Nevis and becomes a separate British Crown colony - now a British overseas territory.

Anguilla is placed under direct British rule following its rebellion.

After talks fail, Anguilla unilaterally declares independence. UK sends in 300 troops and police to "restore order" but they encounter no resistance and the move is a public relations embarrassment for the UK.

Anguilla rejects the union and the dominance of St Kitts within it. It declares separation from St Kitts following a referendum in what is called the Anguillan Revolution. The aim is independence from Saint Kitts and Nevis and a return to being a British colony.

Anguilla became part of the associated state of Saint Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla

Anguilla briefly joins the West Indian Federation.

Full adult suffrage.

Severe droughts, economic stagnation and the 1930s Great Depression of the 1930s lead many Anguillans to emigrate.

St Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla united as a British dependency.

Anguilla is placed under the administrative control of nearby Saint Kitts, formerly it had been administered from Antigua.

Slave trade is abolished within the British empire and is outlawed completely in 1834 within the British empire.

Documented evidence of African slaves on Anguilla to work on sugar plantations which had replaced tobacco as island's main crop. Over time, slaves and their descendants grow to outnumber European settlers

Traditional date of first English colonisation by settlers from Saint Kitts to grow tobacco and cotton.

Dutch establish a fort which is destroyed by the Spanish two years later.

Anguilla is first settled by Amerindian peoples migrating from South America.