NAPARIMA COLLEGE FOREVER |
1100 | End of the Dark Ages. Tribal migrations stabilize in Europe. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1200 | European military adventurers embark on the first of the Crusades | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1260 | Marco Polo, a Venetian, accomplishes historic overland passages to the Far East. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1300 | Gunpowder is introduced from the Middle East. It is the only explosive used until 1628. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1400's | Printing is introduced from the Far East. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1444 | Portugal begins the african slave trade, soon followed by Spain, and then other european countries. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1492 | The Americas are discovered by europeans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1588-1613 | Shakespeare writes all his plays in this period | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1600's | And 1700's. Renaissance, Reformation, and european colonial expansion in full swing. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1625-71 | John Milton's literary career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1702 | The native Arawak population of Trinidad in decline; black slaves begin to be brought in. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1755 | Britain expels 4000 French settlers from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick (Acadia). Many of these move to the American south, some to the Caribbean | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1756-63 | The Seven Years War ends with Britain wresting control of India and America from the French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1769 | Felice Giardini writes the tune Italian Hymn in London | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1776-83 | The American Revolutionary War | 1784 | William Wilberforce embraces Evangelicalism, a neo-Reformation and Presbyterian movement. | 1787 | Wilberforce formally founds the anti-slavery movement in England. | 1789-97 | The French Revolution - for "liberty, equality, fraternity" | 1792 | Denmark outlaws slave trading, though not slavery itself. | 1797 | British warships defeat Spanish defenders at Chaguaramus, to fold Trinidad (pop. 18,000) into the British empire. | 1798 | Wordsworth and Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads | 1800 | There are 893,600 slaves in the 13 states of the U.S.. The purchase from France of vast territory west of the Mississippi a year later doubles the size of the U.S. and begins their westward expansion. | 1807 | Britain outlaws slave trading, though not slavery as such. | 1808 | The United States bans slave trading, though not slavery. | 1812 | Jane Austen's Pride and Prejuduce published | 1820 | John Keats' Poems, Shelley's Prometheus Unbound published | 1832 | Tennyson publishes early Poems, including Lady of Shalott | 1833 | William Wilberforce (b. 1759) dies, but the British Parliament passes his hard-fought legislation to free slaves in the British Empire. | 1837 | Queen Victoria, age 18, ascends the throne of Great Britain | 1838 | Emancipation legislation formally proclaimed in Trinidad | 1839 | Kenneth J. Grant, one of 11 siblings, is born in Scotch Hill, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. Fellow-pioneer John Morton is also born in Pictou County in this same year. | 1845 | Indian indentured labour begins in Trinidad. There were similar experiments in British Guiana and other Caribbean islands. | 1846 | First Canadian Presbyterian overseas mission, to New Hebrides. | 1848 | France outlaws slave trade | 1850 | Wordsworth dies. Tennyson named Poet Laureate | 1857-59 | The Indian Mutiny: brutal fighting between British and rebel troops in India, eventually quelled. The Sikhs, a significant fighting force, were among those Indian troops who remained loyal to the British. | 1858 | The East India Company cedes its Indian administration and 24,000 troops to the British crown | 1860 | There are 4 million slaves in the U.S.. Only about 35, 000 of these are in the "north", where the total population is 13 million. The total number of inhabitants in the "south" is 9 million. | 1861 | Abraham Lincoln becomes president of the United States | 1861 | Charles Dickens' Great Expectations published | 1861-65 | Ravaging civil war between North and South in the US. 620,000 combatants slain. Slavery abolished. | 1863 | The Dutch ban the slave trade | 1864 | In November, John Morton's formative first visit to Trinidad, aboard the brigantine MicMac out of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia | 1865 | Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland published.Through the Looking Glass follows in 1872 | 1867 | Canada established as a country | 1867 | The author's great-grandfather, child witness to Indian Mutiny fighting, arrives in Trinidad from India | 1868 | In December, Rev John Morton arrives in Trinidad | 1870 | In November, Rev Kenneth Grant arrives in San Fernando, Trinidad | 1872 | July 7. Susamachar Church (Hindi for "Church of Good Tidings") founded by Rev. Grant | 1876 | Queen Victoria titled Empress of India | 1884 | Mark Twain (1835-1910) publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Tom Sawyer had appeared in 1876. | 1886 | The author's grandfather is born near Calcutta Settlement, Trinidad. | 1888 | Brazil bans slave trade, one of the last countries in the world to do so. | 1889 | Rev. Grant proposes Naparima College concept | 1890 | Presbyterian Training College, later St Andrews Theological College founded by Rev. Grant in San Fernando | 1892 | Tennyson (born 1809) dies. | 1892 | Rev. Walls' birth-date | 1892 | Naparima Teachers' Training College founded | 1894 | Rev Grant's "Naparima classes" begin. | 1900 | Naparima College formally established | 1901 | Queen Victoria dies | 1911 | The author's father is born in Couva, Trinidad; to graduate from Naparima in 1928 | 1911 | August 4, Rev. Morton dies | 1912 | Naparima Girls' High School founded | 1914-18 | First World War | 1932 | Rev Grant dies, at his home town in Nova Scotia | 1939-45 | Second World War | 1944 | The author's birth-date | 1945 | First atomic weapons used. The era of atomic weapons and advanced technology begins |
1947 | The British Raj departs India | 1953 | Queen Elizabeth ascends the throne of Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1955 | The author enters Naparima, to graduate in 1962 | 1959 | Iere and Siparia schools founded | 1962 | Trinidad & Tobago become an independent country | 1969 | July 20, men from earth walk upon the moon | 1975 | Rev. Walls awarded Chaconia Medal of Trinidad, for educational work | 1975 | Canadian Mission to Trinidad formally ends |