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The early settlement of the territory was probably effected by British woodcutters about 1638; from that date to 1798, in spite of armed opposition from the Spaniards, settlers held their own and prospered. In 1780 the Home Government appointed a superintendent, and in 1862 the settlement was declared a colony, subordinate to Jamaica. It became an independent colony in 1884. Self-government was attained in 1964. Independence was achieved on 21 Sept. 1981.
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Abstract of Statistics 1981. Government Printer. Belize City, 1982
Bianchi, W. J., Belize: The Controversy Between Guatemala and Great Britain. New York, 1959
Dobson, D., A History of Belize. Belize, 1973
Grant, C. H., The Making of Modern Belize. CUP, 1976
Setzekorn, W. D., Formerly British Honduras: A Profile of the New Nation of Belize. Ohio Univ. Press, 1981
Woodward, R. L., Jr. Belize. [Bibliography] Oxford and Santa Barbara, 1980
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Paxton, J. (1989). Belize. In: Paxton, J. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271180_19
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