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Recorded history began on 12 October 1492, when Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Guanahani, which he renamed San Salvador Island, on his first voyage to the New World. The earliest permanent European settlement was in 1648 on Eleuthera .
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The Bahamas was one of the few areas in the region in which the Arawak people were not displaced by the more warlike Caribs. When, in 1492, Christopher Columbus made his first landing in the New World in The Bahamas, the people who met him were Arawaks who, he wrote, ‘have opened their hearts to us. We have become great friends.’.
Home / Our History. Bahamas History is well-documented and filled with lore and legends from the first settlements to the Age of Piracy and beyond.
The Bahamas Islands remained virtually unoccupied until English settlers arrived from Bermuda in 1647. The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1718, but remained greatly unsettled until the recently independent United States expelled around 8,000 loyalists with their slaves from New York, Florida, and North and South Carolina.
