English/British settlement and colony from 1600s to 1981
This article is about the Crown colony. For the modern state, see Belize. For other uses, see Belize (disambiguation).
British Settlements on the Bay of Honduras (1787–1862) Crown Colony of British Honduras (1862–1973) Belize (1973–1981)
1783–1981
Flag (1919–1981)
Coat of arms (1907–1967)
Anthem:
God Save the King/Queen
Status
Crown colony of the United Kingdom
Capital
Belize City (1862–1971)
Belmopan (1971–1981)
Common languages
English, Spanish, Belizean Creole, Garifuna, Mayan languages
Monarch
• 1783–1820
George III
• 1820–1830
George IV
• 1830–1837
William IV
• 1837–1901
Victoria
• 1901–1910
Edward VII
• 1910–1936
George V
• 1936
Edward VIII
• 1936–1952
George VI
• 1952–1981
Elizabeth II
Governor
• 1787–1790
Edward Marcus Despard
• 1980–1981
James Hennessey
Legislature
Legislative Council
History
• Treaty of Versailles (1783)
1783
• Crown colony
1862
• Self-governing
1 January 1964
• Renamed
1 June 1973
• Independence
21 September 1981
Population
• 1861[1]
25,635
Currency
British Honduran dollar
ISO 3166 code
BZ
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Captaincy General of Guatemala
First Mexican Empire
Federal Republic of Central America
Belize
British Honduras was a Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1783 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize in June 1973,[2] until September 1981, when it gained full independence as Belize. British Honduras was the last continental possession of the United Kingdom in the Americas.
The colony grew out of the Treaty of Versailles (1783) between Britain and Spain, which gave the British rights to cut logwood between the Hondo and Belize rivers. The Convention of London (1786) expanded this concession to include the area between the Belize and Sibun rivers.[3] In 1862, the Settlement of Belize in the Bay of Honduras was declared a British colony called British Honduras, and the Crown's representative was elevated to a lieutenant governor, subordinate to the governor of Jamaica.[4]
^"Uniformity and Co-Operation in the Census Methods of the Republics of the American Continent". American Statistical Association. 1908. pp. 305–308. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
^CARICOM - Member Country Profile - BELIZE Archived 19 March 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Caribbean Community. Accessed 23 June 2015.
^Twigg, Alan (2006). Understanding Belize: A Historical Guide. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing. pp. 57–58. ISBN 1550173251.
^Bolland, Nigel. "Belize: Historical Setting". In A Country Study: Belize (Tim Merrill, editor). Library of Congress Federal Research Division (January 1992). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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