1834
Traditional African music – Kaiso, Lavways and Calinda chants feature as the music of Cannes Boulay processions in Trinidad, and, following Emancipation, from which Carnival as we know it evolved.
1881
Government attempts to ban masquerade processions spur Canboulay riots in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
1914
Julian Whiterose makes first English speaking calypso recording by Victor Records in Trinidad.
1935
Lady Trinidad is first recorded female calypsonian.
1940s
55 gallon oil drums used as steel drums become 20th century’s only new acoustic musical instrument, the steel pan.
