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Area : 417  sq.mi - Population 432900 hab.
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1502: Christopher Columbus reaches Carbet Island.
17th century: French colonization.
1760-1763: English occupation.
1848 (22nd May): abolition of slavery.
1814: the island definitively becomes French with the Treaty of Paris.
1902: Mount Pelée's eruption wipes out the town of Saint-Pierre.
1946: the island becomes a French administrative departement.
Michel Cadot has been Prefect of Martinique since June 2000.
7th December 2003: by a narrow margin of 'no's' (50,48%), Martinique (as well as Guadeloupe) rejected the institutional reform bill proposing to replace their local administrations by one single assembly.