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This is a timeline of Antiguan and Barbudan history, consisting of various important political and historical events. To read about the background to these events, see the History of Antigua and Barbuda.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

16th and 17th centuries

Year Date Event Source
1520 Don Antonio Serrano attempts to colonise Antigua, expels indigenous people. [1]
1627 Earl of Carlisle granted Antigua. [2]
1629 Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc and his crew attempt to colonise Antigua, leave due to lack of water. [3]
1632 Antigua successfully settled by Sir Thomas Warner, under instructions of the Earl of Carlisle. [4]
1640 Kalinago pillage British settlements. Members of the Governor's family may have been killed. [5]
1654 Major Kalinago attack, Kalinago defeated [6]
1666 4:00 am, 3 November French attack Antigua, occupy it until the Treaty of Breda [7]
1668 13 April Antigua's legislature meets for the first time [8]
1671 British Leeward Islands established [9]
1685 9 January Codrington family is granted lease of Barbuda [10]
1689 Christopher Codrington becomes governor [11]
1692 11 January Original five parishes of Antigua are established [12]

18th century

Year Date Event Source
1702 First town markets established

St. John's elects its first town wardens

[13]
1706 Daniel Parke arrives in Antigua [14]
1710 7 December Parke is killed [15]
1725 22 January Division of New North Sound (then part of Saint Peter) becomes the Parish of Saint George [16]
1736 Kingdom of Antigua plot uncovered [17]
1772 St. John's and English Harbour are severely damaged by hurricanes [18]
1776 Sancta Rita, a Spanish ship, is shipwrecked off the coast of Barbuda [19]
1793 Black Antiguans allowed to serve in the Antiguan militia's artillery [20]
1794 Antigua joins invasion of Guadeloupe and Martinique [21]

19th century

Year Date Event Source
1800 Census conducted. Antigua has a population of 37,000 [22]
1805 French squadron nearly attacks Antigua, decides to attack Nevis instead [23]
1808 1 March Slave trade abolished [24]
1813 Police force established [25]
1816 British Leeward Islands abolished, Antigua-Barbuda-Montserrat established [25]
1820 Census is taken. Antigua has 37,031 people, Barbuda has 503

945-man militia is raised

[26][27]
1832 British Leeward Islands reestablished [28]
1834 1 August Emancipation Day [29]
1834 Liberta established [30]
1838 1 July Militia is abolished [31]
1842 Bermudian Valley and Bridgetown become ghost towns. Bridgetown residents moved to Freetown [32]
1858 Point uprising due to dispute between Antiguan dockworkers and Barbudan dockworkers [33]
1860 1 August Barbuda reverts to British crown, becomes dependency of Antigua [34]
1871 British Leeward Islands federalise [35]

20th century

Year Date Event Source
1904 30 April Barbuda Ordinance goes into force, establishes system of island wardens and formalises communal land [36]
1914 14 August Antigua Defence Force put on active duty [37]
1946 26 July First election held in Antigua [38]
1945 Village councils established [39]
1950 December Village council elections held [39]
1951 20 December First democratic election held in Antigua [40]
1958 3 January Colony of Antigua joins the West Indies Federation, becomes the Territory of Antigua [41]
1960 1 January Antigua becomes self-governing [42]
1962 31 May West Indies Federation abolished [43]
1965 29 November General election held [44]
1966 28 February Antigua Constitutional Conference held [45]
1967 27 February Associated State of Antigua established [46]
1969 Barbudan independence movement emerges [34]
1971 11 February Progressive Labour Movement takes office [47]
1981 1 November Antigua gains independence, renamed to Antigua and Barbuda [48][49]
1984 17 April First election held after independence
1992 Vere Bird involved in bribery scandal [50]
1994 8 March Lester Bird becomes second Prime Minister after an election deemed neither free nor fair [51]
1999 9 March Another election deemed neither free nor fair is held, Lester Bird remains prime minister [52]

21st century

Year Date Event Source
2004 23 March First democratic general elections since 1989 in Antigua and Barbuda are held, Baldwin Spencer becomes Prime Minister
2009 12 March Baldwin Spencer retains office, holding a two-seat majority
2014 12 June Gaston Browne becomes Prime Minister
2017 8 September Nearly all of Barbuda's infrastructure destroyed, entire population evacuated to Antigua until about late 2018.
2018 21 March Early elections held, resulting in a landslide victory for the Labour Party
2023 18 January General election held, Labour Party holds one-seat majority
2024 4 November Asot Michael assassinated

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  2. ^ Lanaghan. Antigua and the Antiguans. p. 12.
  3. ^ Lanaghan. Antigua and the Antiguans. p. 12.
  4. ^ Lanaghan. Antigua and the Antiguans. p. 12.
  5. ^ Lanaghan. Antigua and the Antiguans. p. 15.
  6. ^ Lanaghan. Antigua and the Antiguans. p. 20.
  7. ^ Lanaghan. Antigua and the Antiguans. pp. 24–31.
  8. ^ Antigua (1865). The Laws of Antigua: Consisting of the Acts of the Leeward Islands in Force in Antigua, and the Acts of Antigua from 20 Car. 2., 1668, to 28 Vict., 1864; with Table of Acts, Index of Subject Matter, and Alphabetical Index. By Authority. George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode.
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  12. ^ Lanaghan. Antigua and the Antiguans. pp. 43–46.
  13. ^ Lanaghan. Antigua and the Antiguans. p. 48.
  14. ^ Lanaghan. Antigua and the Antiguans. p. 52.
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  17. ^ KESSE (14 April 2020). "Prince Klaas, the Ghanaian rebel slave in Antigua". Ghanaian Museum. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
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  19. ^ https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/33527518.pdf
  20. ^ Lanaghan. Antigua and the Antiguans. pp. 84–86.
  21. ^ Lanaghan. Antigua and the Antiguans. pp. 86–87.
  22. ^ Lanaghan. Antigua and the Antiguans. pp. 87–95.
  23. ^ Lanaghan. Antigua and the Antiguans. pp. 87–95.
  24. ^ Lanaghan. Antigua and the Antiguans. pp. 94–97.
  25. ^ a b Lanaghan. Antigua and the Antiguans. pp. 94–97.
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  27. ^ Lanaghan. Antigua and the Antiguans. pp. 99–101.
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  33. ^ ""Our Side": Antigua's 1858 Uprising and the Contingent Nature of Freedom". Duke University Press. 11 November 2015. doi:10.1215/9780822375050-008.
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  52. ^ Nohlen, p63
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