This territory of the United States was a territory of Denmark from the 1600s until 1917. The United States Virgin Islands, St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas, ... History · Sovereign History · Timeline

History of the United States Virgin Islands · Pre-Columbian history · Early colonial period, 1493–1733 · Danish colonial period, 1672–1917 · Negotiations of sale. Pre-Columbian history · Negotiations of sale · Economy

History ; The U.S. Virgin Islands were originally inhabited by the Ciboney ; Denmark–Norway ; In 1733, St. John was the site of one of the first significant slave ... Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands · History · Legislature of the Virgin... · Albert Bryan Jr.

In 1917 the United States purchased the three islands for $25 million and the Virgin Islands became an unincorporated territory of the United States. The treaty ...

The islands remained under Danish rule until 1917, when the United States purchased them for $25 million in gold in an effort to improve military positioning ...

20 дек. 2021 г. · 1000/2000 BC—AD 200. Around this time, groups of semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers settle the islands of the Caribbean. The origins of these ...

Events in Virgin Islands (US) History · 1917-01-17 US pays Denmark $25 million for Virgin Islands (or 3/21) · 1917-03-31 The Danish West Indies are officially ...

1493: Columbus first documented European to to visit the Virgin Islands and christens them Las Once Mil Virgenes. He also gives individual islands their ...

4 дня назад · St. Croix was willed to the Hospitallers (Knights of Malta) in 1653, but they sold it to the French West India Company. In 1666 the English ...