General elections were held for the first time in Mauritius between 11 and 20 January 1886. They followed the introduction of a new constitution the previous...

Governor General John Pope Hennessy launched a new project for the adoption of a revised Constitution which was well supported by the Mauritian barrister...

This is a list of prominent Mauritians. Emmanuel Anquetil (1885–1946), political activist and one of the founders of Labour Party Anil Bachoo, former minister...

who owned real estate. In 1886, Governor John Pope Hennessy nominated Gnanadicarayen Arlanda as the first ever Indo-Mauritian member of the ruling council...

colony of France rather than England. This made him an enemy of the Franco-Mauritian oligarchy which favoured England over France as the parent state. Curé...

Coralie Younger, Molly and the Rajah: Race, Romance and the Raj, Australian Mauritian Press, Sylvania, 1991, pp. xii, 130, ISBN 0-646-03679-3 Wikimedia Commons...

Sir Virgile Naz (1825-1901) was a Mauritian lawyer, businessman and politician who was elected in British Mauritius to the Council of the Government of...

of 1937 (Chicago, United States) 1937 – Uba riots of 1937 August 1937 Mauritian sugar cane growers versus sugar mill owners at Union Flacq Sugar Estate...

Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (1900-1985), Mauritian physician, chief minister, first prime minister, and fifth governor-general. Henry Charles ("Carl") Ramos (1856–1928)...

1893. The women's suffrage bill was adopted mere weeks before the general election of 1893. Māori men had been granted suffrage in 1867, white men in...