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Saint-Barthélemy
 
[Flag of
                                    Sweden]
6 Mar 1785 - 16 Mar 1878
 
[Flag of
                                    France]
Adopted 16 Mar 1878
 
[Saint-Barthélemy Island local
                                    flag (France)]
Adopted 22 Feb 2007
(Logo adopted 1977)

[Saint-Barthélemy Collectivité
                                  flag (France)]
Collectivité Flag
Adopted May 2018

Map of Saint-Barthélemy
Hear National Anthem
"La Marseillaise"
Local Anthem
"L'Hymne à Saint-Barthélemy"
(Hymn to St. Barthelemy)
Adopted 11 Dec 1999
Constitution
 (28 Sep 1958)
Capital: Gustavia
(Le Carénage to 1786)
Currency: Euro (EUR);
to 1 Jan 2002 French Franc
(FRF)
National Holiday: 14 Jul (1789)
Fête Nationale
 (National Holiday
"Bastille Day")

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Local Holiday: 24 Aug (1572)
Fête de la Saint-Barthélemy
(St. Barthelemy Day)
Population: 10,967 (2021)
GDP: $487 million (2014)
Exports: $22.9 million (2017)
Imports: $123 million (2017)
Ethnic groups: white, Creole (mulatto), black,
Guadeloupe Mestizo (French-East Asian)
Total Police Force: 11 (2012)
Defense is the Responsibility of France
Merchant marine: None (2023)
Religions: Roman Catholic, Protestant (Anglican and Pentecostal), Jehovah's Witnesses
International Organizations/Treaties: ACS (associate), UPU
Saint-
Barthélemy
Chronology

1493                       Discovered and claimed for Spain by Christopher
                             Columbus named Isla de San Bartolomeo.
1648                       French possession (Saint-Barthélemy).
24 May 1651                Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique sells right to
                             administer Saint-Barthélemy (and other islands)
                             to the Knights of Malta.
24 May 1651 -  4 Jan 1666  Administered by the Knights of Malta (abandoned
                             1656-1659).
10 Aug 1665                Knights of Malta agree to sell their rights to
                             Compagnie Française des Indes Occidentales
                             (effected 4 Jan 1666).
 4 Jan 1666 -  6 Mar 1785  Saint-Barthélemy a dependency of Guadeloupe.
 4 Jan 1690 - 26 Jan 1690  English occupation (Saint Bartholomew), French
                             settlers are deported.
26 Jan 1690 - 1698         Abandoned.
1744 - 1748                British occupation averted when islanders sign
                             a declaration of neutrality.
Jan 1779 - 28 Feb 1779     British raids destroy French defenses.
17 Mar 1781 - 26 Nov 1781  British occupation (Saint Bartholomew).
 1 Jul 1784                France agrees to sell the island to Sweden.
 6 Mar 1785 - 16 Mar 1878  Swedish colony (Sankt Barthélemy). 
1786 - 1806                Under Swedish West India Company (Svenska
                             Västindiska
Kompaniet) administration.
20 Mar 1801 - 10 Jul 1802  British occupation.
1812 - 1845                Personal property of the King of Sweden.
10 Aug 1877                Sweden agrees to sell the island to France.
16 Mar 1878                French possession.
16 Mar 1848 - 10 Feb 2025  Part of
Guadeloupe département.
24 Jun 1940 - 14 Jul 1943  Administration loyal to Vichy France
                             (from 14 Jul 1943, under Free French).  
19 Mar 1946 -  7 Feb 1963  Saint-Barthélemy made a canton of département of
                             Guadeloupe arrondissement La Basse-Terre. 
 7 Feb 1963 -  9 Jul 2007  Saint-Barthélemy within Guadeloupe as part of the
                             arrondissement of Saint-Martin et Saint-Barthélemy
                             (des Îles du Nord)(see under Saint-Martin).
 7 Dec 2003                Saint-Barthélemy votes to become a separate
                             overseas collectivité of France by 95.5%.
 9 Jul 2007                Saint-Barthélemy a separate French overseas
                             collectivité (Collectivité de Saint-Barthélemy).

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Commandants
1648 - 1656                Jacques Gente
1656 - 1659                abandoned
16.. -  1 Jan 1666         sieur du Guery
 
1 Jan 1666 - 16..         sieur Beauplan
1673 - 16..                ....

c.1687                     Legrand
                             (captain-commandant)
1687/88 -  4 Jan 1690      Henri Charles de Vaultier, sieur   (d. 1690)
                             de Moyencourt
 4 Jan 1690 - 26 Jan 1690  Sir Timothy Thornhill              (b. 1648? - d. 1693)
                             (English commander)
26
Jan 1690 - 1698         abandoned
31 Mar 1698  (1 day)       de la Hogue                        (d. 1700)
                             (held title to 19 Dec 1700)     
 
1 Apr 1698 - af.1700      Vacant
1713 - 1719?               Alexandre Vaultier de Moyencourt,  (b. 1658 - d. 1728)
                             comte de Moyencourt
c.1720 - c.1730?           Jacques Gréaux
c.1732                     Christophe Mahieu
17.. - 1744                Jacques Gréaux, Jr.                (d. 1744)
1744 - c.1746              Véret (acting)
c.1750                     Gréaux
1757 - 1763                Vacant
1763 - 1764                Alexis Brin (acting)
1764 - 1771                René Camille, comte de Carné de    (b. 1719 - d. 1785)
                             Trécesson
1771 - c.1774              Pierre Bernier
 6 Jun 1775 - Jan 1784     Alexandre René d'Agneau-Douville   (b. 1736 - d. 1789)
17 Mar 1781 - 26 Nov 1781  Lawrence Graeme -British commander
1784? - Mar 1785           Isnard (acting)
Governors

 6 Mar 1785 - 23 Apr 1787
  Salomon Mauritz von Rajalin        (b. 1757 - d. 1825)
23 Apr 1787 -  6 Jun 1790  Pehr Herman Rosen von Rosenstein   (b. 1763 - d. 1799)
 
6 Jun 1790 - 17 Nov 1795  Carl Fredrik Bagge af Söderby      (b. 1750 - d. 1828)
17 Nov 1795 - 26 Jan 1801  Georg Henrik Johan af Trolle       (b. 1763 - d. 1824)
26 Jan 1801 - 14 Feb 1812  Hans Henrik Anckerheim             (b. 1748 - d. 1814)
20 Mar 1801 - Mar 1802     Sir Thomas Trigge -U.K. commander  (b. 1741 - d. 1814)
Mar 1802 - 10 Jul 1802     .... -U.K. commander
14 Feb 1812 - 10 Aug 1816  Bernd Robert Gustaf Stackelberg    (b. 1784 - d. 1845)

10 Aug 1816 - 10 Dec 1818  Johan Samuel Rosensvärd            (b. 1782 - d. 1818)
19 Sep 1818 - 20 Aug 1819  Carl Fredrik Berghult              (b. 1794 - d. 1834)
                             (acting [for Rosensvärd to 10 Dec 1818])
20 Aug 1819 - 27 Apr 1826  Johan Norderling                   (b. 1760 - d. 1828)

27 Apr 1826 - 11 Oct 1833  James Haarlef Haasum               (b. 1791 - d. 1871)
                           + Lars Gustaf Morsing              (b. 1794 - d. 1860)
11 Oct 1833 - Dec 1860     James Haarlef Haasum               (s.a.)

Dec 1860 - 11 Aug 1868     Fredrik Carl Ulrich                (b. 1808 - d. 1868)
11 Aug 1868 -  4 Dec 1868  Georg Wilhelm Netherwood (acting)  (b. 1828 - d. 1903)
 4 Dec 1868 - 16 Mar 1878 
Bror Ludvig Ulrich                 (b. 1818 - d. 1887)         
                             (acting to 10 Sep 1870)

Prefects to the State Representative in the Collectivités of Saint-Martin and
of
Saint-Barthélemy (until 10 Feb 2025, Préfets délégués auprès du représentant de l'État dans les collectivités de Saint-Martin et de Saint-Barthélemy [delegated to the prefect of Guadeloupe, who from 9 Jul 2007, is also Representative of the State in the Collectivité of Saint-Barthélemy])
 
9 Jul 2007 -             
the prefects of Saint-Martin

Mayors
1878 - 1900                Hippolyte Duchatellard             (b. 1833 - d. 1910)
1900 - 1913                Jean-Bertrand Sourd                (b. 1859 - d. 1918)
1913 - 1919                Louis Déravin
1919 - 1925                Théodore Lédée                     (b. c.1840 - d. 19..)
1925 - 1927                Adolphe Leroy
1927 - 1929                Eugène Magras
1929 - 1931                Ruben Déravin (1st time)           (b. 1870 - d. 1941)
1931 - 1933                Stephan Tara
1933 - 1941                Ruben Déravin (2nd time)           (s.a.)
1941 - 1942                Clément Lédée (1st time)
1942 - 1943                Jean Lédée
1943 - 1944                Clément Lédée (2nd time)
1944 - 1947                Raynal Rosey (delegate to 1945)    (b. 1901 - d. 1950)   Ind;1947 RI
1947 - 1962                Alexandre Magras                   (b. 1917 - d. 2016)
1962 - 1977                Rémy de Haenen                     (b. 1916 - d. 2008)   UNR + DVD
Mar 1977 - Mar 1983        Charles Querrard                   (b. 1948)
 
8 Mar 1983 - 1995         Daniel Blanchard                   (b. 1946)             MAPA-SB
Jun 1995 - 15 Jul 2007     Bruno Magras                       (b. 1951)            MAPA-SB/UMP
Presidents of the Territorial Council
15 Jul 2007 -  3 Apr 2022  Bruno Magras                       (s.a.)            SBA+UMP;2015 LR
 3 Apr 2022 -              Xavier Lédée                       (b. 1980)             UPS

Party abbreviations: DVD = Divers Droite (Diverse Right, right-wing candidates not members of any large party); Ind = Indépendant (Independent); LR = Les Républicains (The Republicans, center-right, former UMP, est.30 May 2015); SBA = Saint-Barth d'Abord! (Saint Barth First!, liberal conservative, Francophile, St. Barth regionalist, Bruno Magras election list, affiliated with UMP/LR, est.2007); UPS = Unis pour Saint-Barthélemy (United for Saint Barthelemy, Xavier Lédée election list, est.2017);
- Former parties: MAPA-SB = Mouvement pour le Progrès et l'Avenir de St.-Barth (Movement for Action and Progress for the Future of Saint Barth, conservative, est.1973?); RI = Républicain Indépendant (Republican Independent); UMP = Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (Union for a Popular Movement [to 17 Nov 2002: Union for the Presidential Majority], conservative, merger of RPR, DL and the main part of UDF, 23 Apr 2002-30 May 2015, renamed LR); UNR = Union pour la Nouvelle République (Union for the New Republic, Gaullist, conservative, 1958-1968)






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