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.jpg) | Map of the Cayman Islands |
 | Map of the Cayman Islands |
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This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day the Cayman Islands, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day the Cayman Islands.
| Christopher Columbus discovers the unihabited Cayman islands in 1503 and names them Las Tortugas. In the seventeenth century variety of people settle on the islands, including pirates, refugees from the Spanish Inquisition, shipwrecked sailors, deserters from Oliver Cromwell's army in Jamaica, and slaves. The islands become anEnglish posession in 1670 and become part of the colony ofJamaica. Permanent settlement began around 1661. |
| [[|border|251x400px]] | In 1959 the Cayman islands are separated from Jamaica and become a separate colony and part of theWest Indies Federation. |
| After the dissolution of the British West Indies in 1962, the Cayman Islands become a separate British colony. The colony has internal self-government since 1972. |
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