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==Immigration into Belize== | ==Immigration into Belize== | ||
*European exploration was begun by '''English settlers''' in 1638. This period was also marked by '''Spain and Britain both laying claim''' to the land until Britain defeated the Spanish in the Battle of St. George's Caye (1798). | |||
*It became a British colony in 1840, known as '''British Honduras''', and a Crown colony in 1862. | |||
*Independence was achieved from the United Kingdom on 21 September 1981.<ref>"Belize", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize, accessed August 2021.</ref> | |||
==Emigration From Belize== | ==Emigration From Belize== | ||
<ref> at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development | <ref> at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development | ||