History



• 1492 Lucayan Indians inhabited the islands when
    Christopher Columbus first set foot in the New
    World on San Salvador.
• 1647 British settlement of the islands began.
• 1717 Bahamas became a British crown colony.
• 1783 In Treaty of Paris, Spain ceded Bahamas to Britain.
• 1834 British emancipation of slaves.
• 1973 Bahamas gained independence from the Europeans.