Brief History St Kitts was discovered by Columbus in 1493. It became the first island in the Caribbean settled by Sir Thomas Warner in 1623. Five years later it was divided between the British and the French, but at the Peace of Utrecht in 1713 it was entirely ceded to the British Crown. The French occupied it from 1782 to 1783 during the American Revolutionary Wars. In 1882 the government of Nevis was combined with St. Christopher. St. Christopher and Nevis became independent in 1983 as St Kitts and Nevis.

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