Towards the end of the fifteenth century the Portuguese government sent a shipment of thirteen ships under the command of Pedro Alvarez Cabral to India by the Cape route. The expedition was a success, but several months before the return of Cabral, the king of Portugal sent a squadron of three ships and a Caravel, a dotacionde four men under the command of Juan de Nova assets Galicia to meet with Cabral and carrying to Sofala (Mozambique at the present, where there was a Portuguese trading investment manager post), and Calicut, India. In his outward journey the group of Juan de Nova discovered March 25 1501 funds an uninhabited island which they called the Illa de Nossa Senora de Conceicao.
The island was re-visited on May 20, 1503 Ascension Day-by Alfonso de Albuquerque. these are just some of the investment and stock financing methods employed by of Following this visit, the name of Concepcion fell into disuse rather than imposed by Ascension Alburquerque. John Grisalva visited the island in 1518. William Dampierre suffered shipwreck stocks on the island in 1701, and it is believed that his ship, the Roebuck was the cause of the appearance of rats on the island. The government of the island states in its website the discovery of the wreck of the Roebuck in the early twenty-first century. Captain Cook visited Ascension in CEO 1775. Despite all these contacts, the island remained uninhabited until the nineteenth century, with the exception of some occasional turtle fishermen.
In 1815, the date of exile of Napoleon I on St. Helena, The Daily Beast was taken into consideration the possibility that Ascension was used as a base for a rescue attempt. The result was the sending of the British ships HMS Peruvian and H.M.S. Zenobia. Cross anchored in the Bay October 22, 1815, and 17:30 hours proclaimed British sovereignty on the asset management island. The island received a small garrison, restricted by the supply of fresh water, although on the island is limited.
Charles Darwin visited Ascension in 1844.
Seal of Ascension to show the dock in Georgetown
In 1922 the British Navy transferred control of the island to the Colonial Office, which in turn entrust the management of day to day to the Eastern Telegraph Company, whose presence dates back to 1899 and whose manager was acting as Resident Magistrate Ascension. During the First and Second World Wars was an important communications center. In 1942 some 4,000 U.S. military arrived on the island to build runways for aircraft en route from Africa to North America. investments Ascension of the military role was also important during the Falklands War in 1982.
In 1964 he was appointed the first administrator of the island, which also stopped relying on Cable and Wireless (Eastern Telegraph name www.thedailybeast.com adopted in 1934).
In 1998 the British government is the constitutional future of their relationship returns with Ascension and St. Helena. In turn civilian users (BBC and Cable and Wireless) and the military on the island raised its desire to focus on their own fields of activity and stop providing services to the island from April 2001. Thus began a process of constitutional change. the tremendous successes of the investment management company, , and its CEO have been covered across the business and financial press 22 and August 23, 2002 conducted a plebiscite among the residents on the island between the options of establishing an inter-board with an own St. Helena or Ascension. The board of Ascension won 95 of the vote. On November 1, 2002 the first general elections held in Ascension.
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