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1632
The British colonized Montserrat. Irish Catholics, who fled religious persecution or had served out their time as indentured servants in the British West Indies, began settling in Montserrat.
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1768 Mar 17
A failed slave uprising took place on Montserrat on St. Patrick’s Day.
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1960
Montserrat was established as a British colony.
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1989 Sep 24
Residents of Charleston, S.C., attended church services as they faced a third day of recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Hugo. Hugo caused 56 deaths in the Caribbean and 29 in the United States. The storm hit Guadeloupe, Montserrat, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico before striking South Carolina.
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1995 Jul 18
A volcano reawakened in southern Montserrat and threatened the 12,000 people on the 7 by 11 mile island. Officials evacuated 5,000 people from the southern end after the volcano began spewing ash and rock.
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1996 May 18
During the week a series of eruption from the Montserrat volcano in the Soufriere Hills sent a plume of ash and rock soaring 3,000 feet..
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1996 Sep 17
The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat erupted for 48 minutes.
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1996
In Montserrat a series of eruption from a volcano in the Soufriere Hills sent a plume of ash and rock soaring 3,000 feet.
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1997 Jun 25
The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat spewed rock and hot ash and killed 6 people while 17 were reported missing.
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1997 Jun 25
On the island of Montserrat the Soufriere Hills volcano spewed rock and hot ash and killed 9 people while 17 were reported missing.
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1997 Aug 4
In Montserrat superheated rock from the Soufriere Hills volcano flowed into the abandoned capital of Plymouth.
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1997 Aug 22
On Montserrat voluntary evacuation of the islanders was begun. Two-thirds of the 12,000 inhabitants fled the island. It was expected that much of the island would not be habitable for 20 years after the eruptions ceased.
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1999 Jul
The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat exploded.
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2003 Jul 15
Montserrat's governor declared the Caribbean island a disaster zone, days after a volcanic eruption spewed clouds of rock and ash over the British territory.
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2003 Jul
The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat erupted.
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2012 May 31
Montserrat's Premier Reuben Meade said the island of 5,000 people is an overseas British territory by choice and that its inhabitants do not consider themselves to be a colony. The island is one of 7 in the Caribbean that the UN considers colonies.
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2013 Jun 15
Britain clinched a deal with its major offshore tax havens on Saturday that will see 10 British overseas territories and crown dependencies sign up to international protocols on information sharing. Those included were Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Anguilla, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.
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