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Turks and Caicos timeline
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Turks and Caicos
Liam Shchory
700-1520
700-1520 AD
Lucayans is the most commonly used term to refer to the first people definitely known to have inhabited the Turks and Caicos islands. They now live in the Bahamas and Jamaica.
1000-1960
1000-1960 AD
Turks and Caicos consists of many small islands. And every larger island in the nation has at least one natural saltwater pond. These ponds often have some connection to the ocean.
1492-1600
1492-1600 AD
fter the Lucayan is the expansion of Europeans into the Americas and the Age of Discovery. The Turks and Caicos was at the beginning of newly found lands, and was likely encountered by several famous explorers. Like Christopher Columbus he made his arrival there in the late 1400’s.
1600-1750
1600-1750
Pirates in Turks and Caicos has had a past with Pirates. Turks and Caicos is in fact our country name, which basically translates to Pirate Islands, as it’s derived from the term Turks, which was a synonym for pirates in previous centuries, and Cayo Hico, a version of the indigenous Taino people’s name for Island chain.
1783-1820
1783-1820 AD
During the American revolutionary War not all of the colonists fought against Britain and those who supported the King were called Loyalists. After the war some Loyalists were granted land in other British territories and Colonies as compensation for their losses in the Thirteen Colonies. Was then made.
1800-1920
1800-1920
In the early 1800s the Cotton industry in the Turks and Caicos which once held so much financial promise saw a rapid decline. This was due to an overwhelming combination of pests and diseases soil erosion, and hurricane damage. The great houses infrastructure, and extensive fields, once symbols of relative success, fell into disrepair and abandonment.
1920-2023
1920-2023 AD
Now Turks and Caicos is a nice Island where many retire and live they have delicious food and it is a nice Island for fishing and other cool things even on vacation it is a good place to live or simply go on a trip to.