1881: Canboulay/Carnival riots in Port of Spain. Oppressive Captain Baker and the police are driven back by the revelers and the State has to negotiate with the Carnival. Tamboo bamboo bands begin after the banning of the drums
1882: 2 British Warships were stationed in the harbor, troops and volunteers on full alert for Carnival
1884: The Muharram/Hosay Riots – where Hosay celebrants resisted a ban on Hosay processions. Muslims, Hindus, Africans and East Indians unite against the colonial powers who fear Hosay’s power to unite the masses.
1889: Union of Trinidad and Tobago. J.J. Thomas authored “Froudacity,” an attack on the racist writings about the West Indies by English historian J. Anthony Froude.
1895: Business section of Port of Spain destroyed by fire.
1903: Water riots in Port of Spain: Red House destroyed.
1909: First petroleum company, Trinidad Oilfields Limited, registered. Birds of Paradise released on Little Tobago.
1910: Winifred Atwell is born- she becomes T&T’s most successful musician, a boogie woogie and ragtime pianist who enjoyed great popularity in Britain and internationally from the 1950s with a series of hits, the first black artist in the UK to sell a million records. Millions of copies of her sheet music sold
1911: Trinidad’s first cinemas, the London Electric Theater, opens in Port of Spain. The mother of T&T’s visual arts Sybil Atteck is born
1912: The first calypso recordings is made by Lovey’s String Band five years before the first jazz recordings, making Trinidad one of the oldest recording industries in the world.
1913: First airplane flight in Trinidad; pilot crashes to his death.
1914: Railway reaches Rio Claro. World War I breaks out. Julian Whiterose becomes the first calypsonian on record.
1915: Trinidadian dance legend Beryl McBurnie born
1916: the woman who would become the Mother of Dance in China Dai Ailian is born in Trinidad
1917: The recruitment of East Indian indentured laborers is stopped
1919: anti-colonial insurrections and general strikes
1920: Hazel Scott, singer, pianist and first black woman to have her own show on US TV is born in Trinidad. John Newel Lewis one of T&T’s most influential architects is born in Britain. Kitchener is born in Arima,
