Labels:text | screenshot | font | document OCR: Britain seized Trinidad from Spain in 1797 and Tobago from France in 1802. They were unified in 1888. 0 1956 Dr. Eric Williams founds PNM and wins general elections: main support from blacks. Indian population supports opposition. 1958 Joins West Indian Federation; leaves in 1961. 1962 Independence. 0 1970 Black Power demonstrations cause brief state of emergency. Q 1980 Tobago gets own House of Assembly; internal autonomy 1987. O 1986 NAR coalition wins elections, but fails to halt economic decline. O 1988 Baseo Panday dismissed from Cabinet; forms left-wing UNC. Q 1990 Premier taken hostage in failed fundamentalist coup. 0 1991 PNM elected back to power.
