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KEY HISTORICAL EVENTS. Dominica was discovered by Columbus. It was a British possession from 1805, a member of the Federation of the West Indies 1958–62, an Associated State of the UK, 1967–78 and became an independent republic as the Commonwealth of Dominica on 3 Nov, 1978.
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Baker, P. L., Centring the Periphery: Chaos, Order and the Ethnohistory of Dominica: McGill-Queen’sUniv. Press, 1994
Honychurch, L., The Dominica Story: a History of the Island. 2nd ed. London, 1995
Myers, R. A., Dominica. [Bibliography] Oxford and Santa Barbara (CA), 1987
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Hunter, B. (1997). Dominica. In: Hunter, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271265_53
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