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1492 - Christopher Columbus makes his first landing in the New World in the Bahamas.1647 - English and Bermudan religious refugees, the Eleutheran Adventurers, establish the first European settlement on the Bahamas. 1666 - Colonisation of New Providence 1783 - Spain cedes the Bahamas to Britain in accordance with the Treaty of Paris after briefly occupying the islands the previous year.Island begins.1717 - Bahamas become a British crown colony.