⚑ The chapter on this country is at /chapters/seychelles/ — the argument and its sources; this page is the dated record it rests on.
1771
Pierre Poivre’s smuggled spice plants reach the colony; Gillot plants them at Anse Royale the following year — two dates, two events
1928
A hotel called Raffles opens in timber at Le Chantier, Victoria — no relation to Singapore; the name was thought to lend prestige
1938
12 January: the Empire Hotel opens on the same site, timed to the arrival of the Royal Mail Line’s Atlantis
1968
Cousin is bought as a sanctuary — protection precedes tourism here by three years, and the order of those two facts is the country’s whole proposition
1971
4 July, 3:10 pm: the first commercial BOAC VC-10 lands at the new Seychelles International Airport
1972
20 March: the Seychelles airport is formally inaugurated — a ceremony, distinct from the operations that began nine months earlier
1982
Aldabra is inscribed by UNESCO
1983
Vallée de Mai is inscribed by UNESCO
1997
The Noah’s Ark Project begins the rehabilitation of North Island The Noah’s Ark Project
1998
Fregate Island Private opens in the Seychelles
1999
Cousine Island opens in the Seychelles as a conservation island
2003
North Island opens in the Seychelles on a rehabilitated plantation
Every event names at least one entry in the register. The same events appear in the Library’s whole chronology at History, and the entries themselves at Seychelles.