14-99-1636 ~*~ The Spanish Colonization
Aruba facts
* 1499-1502 Discovery and conquest of | Aruba by Spanish lonso de Ojeda and/ \ or Ameri: Vespucci, but considered it an “isla inutile”, an useless island.
* 1515 Spanish deport 2000 local Arowak indians as slaves to Hispafiola.
* 1621 To support their 80-year war’ with Spain the Dutch founded the West Indian Compagnie (WI.C.) to hijack Spanish galleons in the Caribbean.
+1636 Average population: 20
Spanish 2 Reaal coins and Maradevis used between 1600 and 1823. It is a so called ‘cob’ coin which meant ‘cut out of bar’
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+ 1986-2006 Status Aparte ~~ and the New Economy
Aruba facts
*1986 On January Ist Aruba constitues
the ‘Status Aparte’. Betico Croes is the
hero of the people, but dies after 8 months coma.
* 1986 Tourism is the new economy.
°1990 Refinery reopens doors: First
Coastal then Valero takes over.
* 2006 Average population: 100.000
After the ‘Status Aparte’ Aruba designs their own official coins and bank notes; the Aruban ‘florin’ is born. The florin is fixed to the USA dollar currency which is
also widely accepted on Aruba.
MEN 1636-1754 The Dutch EE Colonization
Aruba facts
* 1636 Holland conquers Aruba from Spain to strategjcal ly protect Curacao.
* 1654-1664 Peter Stuyvesant looses New (Amsterdam) York to England and rules the so called ABC-islands: Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao.
° 1774 Average population: 20.
The fer Spanish 8 Reaal coin (‘Spaanse matten’ or ‘Pillar dollar), used between 1752 and 1821 was the most widely circulated coin in the 18th century; some +41 million pieces were produced. First issue of
bank notes.
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Aruba facts . 1954 The end of 300 years of Dutch colonization. Aruba part of the Dutch Antilles. = * 1957 First cruise ship enters Oranj harbour. 4 ; ' ae * 1971 Foundation politica MEP.
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. ee Lago produces last barrel. * 1985 Average population: 60.000
Banknotes bear the Central Bank of the Netherlands Antilles and coins bear Netherlands Antilles for the first time.
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1754-1840 White Colonization ~ | Leetee] o Aruba facts * 1754 First white colonist Maduro, a Por- Y tugues Jew establishes himself on Aruba. °1795 Florishing of ‘Paardenbaai’ where trade was not illegal.
* 1800-1816 Dutch loose Aruba to England and Venezuela but reconquer it again. * 1824 Paardenbaai changes name to
Oranjestad and first goldrush. ° OU occ popediticen 2800
The ous Yotin was ‘cut’ out of the Spanish 8 reaal. In the 20th see the
®, Yotin had a value of 50 cents. The first (BE) Dutch ‘Gulden’ was introduced and foreign
money like the Danish Skilling were
common currencies.
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Asuba facts
° 1924 Captain Rodger chooses San \
Nicolas for construction of an oil refinery,
where LAGO produces its first barrel in925.
©1927 Shell opens Eagle oil refinery.
©1927 Opening harbour San Nicolas.
* 195+ First hotel: Hotel Caribe.
+1942 U-boats attack Aruba in WW. II
°1948 Seeds for Status Aparte are sowed. > 2a ° 1954 Average population: 54000 RUE
Dutch ‘Gulden’ with queen Wilhelmina is national currency together with banknotes from the Curacaosche Bank and from 1940 on the “Munt van Curacao” (*Coin of Curacao”).
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* 1840 Economic agricultural recovery \ lan and start aloé vera cultivation. \
* 1863 Abolition slavery worldwide. |
* 1881-1915 Phosphate production and export
and origin of San Nicolas around it.
* 1868 Second goldrush.
* 1924 Average population: 9000
Currency law from 1854 only recognized Dutch Guilder as legal currency until 1880. After slave abolishment there was a large
s = . A currency list of I vtsnchice which made theusage MES aa RN of different coins from different countries | | legal on the 6 islands.
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Publication of Museo Numismatico Aruba 2005. Author: Gijs de Rooij