Historical Organization
Curaçao
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Organization Timeline
First group of rebels is executed
📅 27 August 1795Hira’s overview lists eight enslaved people hanged on 27 August. The swift executions show how colonial justice used punishment to deter resistance, while the system of slavery itself remained...
Further executions after the military suppression
📅 4 September 1795Hira’s overview lists four executions on 4 September. Repression continued after organized resistance had been broken; punishment and terror were used to restore plantation order.
Executions and torture continue
📅 10 September 1795Further death sentences followed on 10 September, including strangulation and breaking on the wheel. The punishments show how colonial authorities used public bodily terror against people who had...
Tula and other leaders are executed with extreme brutality
📅 2 October 1795On 2 October, Tula and Carpatta are broken on the wheel and beheaded; their heads are displayed. Pedro Waccau and other fighters are also killed with extreme violence. The executions serve as a public...
Slavery is abolished in Suriname and the Caribbean
📅 1 July 1863About 45,000 people were legally freed. Suriname’s emancipated population remained under state supervision and compulsory labor until 1873. Former owners received compensation; the people whose...
Curaçao voters choose the status of an autonomous country within the Kingdom
📅 8 April 2005A referendum backed a separate country status within the Kingdom. This expressed a desire to leave the Netherlands Antilles structure while retaining Kingdom ties, a constitutional compromise rather...
Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and the Netherlands agree on steps toward new country status
📅 2 November 2006The parties agreed on measures and criteria for Curaçao and Sint Maarten to become countries within the Kingdom. The settlement followed referenda and negotiations, while leaving the distribution of...
Curaçao referendum endorses the proposed constitutional reform
📅 15 May 2009Voters approved the proposed process for becoming an autonomous country within the Kingdom as the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved. The result reflected a negotiated status change, not...
Netherlands Antilles is dissolved and the Kingdom’s constitutional map changes
📅 10 October 2010The Netherlands Antilles ceased to exist. Curaçao and Sint Maarten became countries within the Kingdom, while Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba became public bodies within the Netherlands. The...
Curaçao–CARICOM associate-membership treaty is published
📅 21 October 2025The treaty was formally published in the Netherlands’ Treaty Gazette. It records Curaçao’s associate status and grants participation in selected CARICOM bodies and programs, while reserving...