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British Honduras
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UK possession in Central America between 1798 and 1981, today Belize
Key facts
- 1793
- 2,493
- 1861
- 25,635
- 1936
- Edward VIII
- 1960
- 90,343
- Status
- Crown colony of the United Kingdom
- Capital
- Belize City (1862–1971) Belmopan (1971–1981)
- Common languages
- English , Spanish , Belizean Creole , Garifuna , Mayan languages
- 1783 1820
- George III
- 1820 1830
- George IV
- 1830 1837
- William IV
- 1837 1901
- Victoria
- 1901 1910
- Edward VII
- 1910 1936
- George V
- 1936 1952
- George VI
- 1952 1981
- Elizabeth II
- 1787 1790
- Edward Marcus Despard
- 1980 1981
- James Hennessey
- Legislature
- Legislative Council
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- colony
- Country
- British Empire
- Contains
- Stann Creek District
- Continent
- North America
- Capital
- Belize City
- Official language
- English language
- Form of government
- crown colony
- Followed by
- Belize
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- topic's main category
- Category:British Honduras
- inception
- 1862-05-12
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1981-01-01
- Commons category
- British Honduras
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- native label
- British Honduras
- Commonwealth Sport country code
- HBR
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Encyclopedic overview
British Honduras was a Crown colony on the east coast of Central America — specifically located on the southern edge of the Yucatán Peninsula from 1783 to 1964, then a self-governing colony — renamed Belize from June 1973 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. 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “British Honduras” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.