# - Tobago

culture = carib
religion = animism
capital = "Tobago"
trade_goods = tobacco
hre = no 
base_tax = 1
base_production = 2
base_manpower = 1
native_size = 25
native_ferocity = 2
native_hostileness = 9 
discovered_by = south_american

1498.7.31 = {
	discovered_by = CAS

} # Christopher Columbus, Third Voyage
1516.1.23 = {
	discovered_by = SPA
}
1628.1.1 = {
	discovered_by = NED
	owner = NED
	controller = NED
	culture = dutch
	add_core = NED
	is_city = yes
	religion = reformed
	capital = "Fort Vlissingen"
} # First arrival of the Dutch
1637.1.1  = {
	discovered_by = KUR
	owner = ---
	controller = ---
	remove_core = NED
	culture = carib
	religion = animism
} # colony massacred by Spanish, same year Kurland tries to colonize, but fails

# failure to colonize by kurland in 1642 and by England in 1640 and 1647

1654.5.20 = {
	owner = KUR
	controller = KUR
	culture = latvian
	religion = catholic
	add_core = KUR
	capital = "Jacobsstadt"
} # succesfull attempt by the Curonians, later the Dutch settle on the other side of the island
1669.12.11 = {
	owner = NED
	controller = NED
	add_core = NED
	culture = dutch
	remove_core = KUR
	capital = "Fort Lampingsberg"
} # Kurland falls to the Swedes, tobago falls to the Dutch
1666.1.1 = {
	owner = GBR
	controller = GBR
} # The British annex the island, after pirates from Jamaica take it from the Dutch
1666.8.6 = {
	owner = ---
	controller = ---
	culture = carib
	remove_core = NED
} # The French defeat the British, but abandon the island
1667.4.1 = {
	owner = NED
	controller = NED
	add_core = NED
	culture = dutch
} # Admiral Abraham Crijnssen recolonizes the island
1672.12.18 = {
	owner = ---
	controller = ---
	culture = carib
	remove_core = NED
} # The english conquer and abandon the colony
1674.1.1 = {
	owner = NED
	controller = NED
	add_core = NED
	culture = dutch
	capital = "Fort Sterreschans"
} # Second peace of Westminster makes Tobago Dutch again
1678.1.1 = {
	owner = FRA
	controller = FRA
	add_core = FRA
	remove_core = NED
	capital = "Port Louis"
} # Peace treaty awards Tobago to the French
1763.1.1 = {
	owner = GBR
	controller = GBR
	add_core = GBR
	remove_core = FRA
	culture = english
	capital = "Scarborough"
} # treaty of Paris
1781.12.6 = {
	owner = FRA
	controller = FRA
	capital = "Port Louis"
} # American war of independence
1793.1.1 = {
	owner = GBR
	controller = GBR
	capital = "Scarborough"
}