The Bermuda triangle
1503Bermuda was discovered by Juan de Bermudez. The Captain of La Garza, a Spanish vessel.
1511In Spain a book of recent Spanish discoveries had in it a map of an island named La Bermudas.
1543A French map of the world, showing La Bermuda was published.Spanish Rock was inscribed with this date.
1593Henry May, an English traveller spent a few months time on the island after surviving the wreck of a French ship.


The Bermuda triangle in the 1600's
1603Diego Ramirez, captain of a Spanish galleon, after spending 3 weeks on the island files a map and description of Bermuda with his principals in Spain.
1609The Sea Venture was wrecked on the reefs of Bermuda, and 150 people seek safety on the island. These were the first settlers.
1610The settlers left Bermuda, all except 2, and sailed on to Virginia. Sir George Somers returned to Bermuda, and a few months later died on the island. His heart was buried in St.George's, and his body taken and buried in Dorset, England, where he was born.
1612The Virginia Company sent sixty more settlers to the island, one of which was Richard Moore, the recently appointed Governor of Bermuda. Bermuda was sold by the Virginia Company to the newly-formed Bermuda Company. That same year the Town of St. George's was founded.
1616The islands were divided into shares and tribes (parishes). Each parish was named after investors in the Bermuda Company. The first slaves are brought to Bermuda to dive for pearls and to harvest tobacco and sugarcane.
1620The first Bermuda Parliament meeting, held at St. Peter's Church in St. George's, made it the 3rd oldest parliament in the world after Iceland and Great Britain.
1684Bermuda reverts to Crown rule after the dissolution of the Bermuda Company. Sir Robert Robinson was appointed the Bermuda's first Governor.

The Bermuda Triangle in the 1700's
1775The American Continental Congress announced a trade embargo against all colonies remaining loyal to the Crown. When Bermuda tried to bargain with salt, the colonies refused and requested gunpowder instead. A group of Bermudians then stole the island's supply of gunpowder from Powder Magazine in St. George's and shipped it to the rebels in America. The embargo was then lifted.
1784This year marked the beginning of the bermuda newspaper. Joseph Stockdale edited and printed The Bermuda Gazette
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1793The Town of Hamilton was incorporated.
1793The Town of St. George's was officially incorporated and received its first Mayor; Andrew Durnford.


The Bermuda triangle in the 1800's
1804Irish Poet Tom Moore arrived in Bermuda. During his four month stay he met and had an affair with Hester Tucker, whom he called Nea in his love poems.
1809Ireland Island was bought by the British Government to use for the Naval Base.
1813The Bermuda Post Office was established.
1815The town of Hamilton became the capital of Bermuda.
1828The Royal Gazette newspaper was issued for the first time.
1843This year marked the abolition of slavery in Bermuda.
1846Gibbs Hill Lighthouse was put into service for the first time, to reduce the number of shipwrecks near the island.
1871The opening of the Causeway, the road linking St.George's with the rest of Bermuda.
1877Mark Twain made his first visit to the island.
1883Princess Louise, daughter of the Queen Victoria, visited Bermuda and in her honor the Pembroke Hotel is renamed The Princess.
1887Installation of Bermuda's first telephones.
1899The Causeway was swept away during a severe storm.

The Bermuda triangle in the 1900's
1900The Causeway is reopened.
1902The Cup Match cricket tournament was played for the first time.
1908The Bermuda Electric Light Power and Traction Company start providing electricity to a small group of users.
1928The Founding of the Bermuda Aquarium and Museum.
1937Imperial Airways (later to become British Airways) begins the first scheduled air service to Bermuda from Port Washington in the U.S.
1944Captain Joe Talley was suddenly woken up because water streamed into his cabin of his ship the Wild Goose...
1944, DecemberThe night was clear and quiet and there were no problems till, at about 480 kilometres from Bermuda...
1945, 25 marchCaptain lieutenant Marcus Billson and his crew fled a PBM from Miami to Grand Bahama by night when, about halfway, the magnetic compass began to turn...
1945, 5 DecemberThe first plane of flight 19 took off from the Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station on 5 December 1945 short after two o'clock in the afternoon. The pilot was the flight-leader lieutenant Charles Taylor. The other four Avengers followed with short breaks. It would be just a routine-flight, one of the many practice-flights, which were carried out day-to-day from the airport...
1946Automobiles were allowed by law on Bermuda. Dr. E F Gordon left Bermuda for London, bearing a petition protesting the political and racial conditions in Bermuda.
1947In Britain's House of Commons a White Paper on Bermuda is debated. The matters raised in Dr Gordon's petition are handed back to Bermuda for Bermudians to deal with.
1948A British passenger plane, 440 miles Northeast of Bermuda and heading for the Island, disappears. The 29 passengers and crew were lost without a trace.
1949, JulyCarlon W. Hamilton was air-traffic controller of the airport of Miami in 1949 when this striking disappeared...
1952The journalist Gerald C. Hawkes and his friend (a surgeon) went on a flight to Bermuda. The flight elapsed quiet, but suddenly the airplane crashed down..
1957, DecemberA week before Christmas 1957 came a boat from 10,5 meters on the Bahama's who was lying still for various hours...
1965, MayIrwin Brown and his wife were fishing before the cost of Long Key, Florida when Brown, who was looking over the water saw a gully just in front of his boat.
1968, FebruaryWhen Jim Blocker flew into a cloud cover he noticed that his radio- and his navigation equipment were out of order and his compass turned around.
1968Bermuda holds its first General Election under the new Constitution. The UBP wins thirty seats; and the PLP wins the other ten. Sir Henry Tucker, leader of the UBP, is appointed Bermuda's first Government Leader.
10 august 1971A jetfighter disappeared from the radar when it was 50 kilometre south-east of the base...
1973, OctoberJean and Lloyd Wingfield were fishing six kilometers out of the coast, by the Boca Raton (Florida), when Jean saw at about 2 PM a cloud of smoke on the skyline.
1973The Governor Sir Richard Sharples and his aide Captain Hugh Sayers are assassinated. The Old Devonshire Church was damaged by an explosion on Easter Sunday.
10 august 1974The Saba Bank, a boat of 16,5 meters, sailed from Nassau the Bahama's for a test navigation at 10 March 1974.
1974When approaching the Straits of Florida a ghostlike landmass on about 18 kilometres distance appeared on the radar of the Hollyhock.