Short answers, pulled from the story.
Bermuda was discovered in the early 1500s by Spanish explorer Juan de Bermudez and named after him. The islands were mentioned in Legatio Babylonica, published in 1511 by historian Pedro Martir de Angleria, and appeared on Spanish charts of that year.
Bermuda earned the name Isle of Devils because of its frequent storms, dangerous reefs, and terrifying sounds heard at night. Those sounds are now thought to have come from the calls of raucous birds, most likely the Bermuda petrel or cahow, and from loud nocturnal noises made by introduced wild hogs.
In 1609 the flagship Sea Venture, part of a flotilla carrying settlers to Jamestown, Virginia, was driven onto Bermuda's reef during a storm to prevent her from sinking. All passengers and crew survived, and the settlers became unwilling to leave after hearing about conditions in Jamestown. Formal English settlement followed in 1612 with the arrival of the ship the Plough.
The first two enslaved people arrived in Bermuda in 1616, brought from the West Indies rather than from Africa. Bermuda's governor had sent the ship Edwin to the West Indies to find slaves to dive for pearls; one of the two was Black and the other was Native American. There proved to be no pearls to dive for.
Captain Fritz Joubert Duquesne was a Boer prisoner of war held in Bermuda during the Anglo-Boer War, serving a life sentence for conspiracy and espionage. He escaped on the night of the 25th of June 1902 by swimming past patrol boats using the Gibbs Hill Lighthouse for navigation. He later became a spy for Germany and in 1942 was arrested by the FBI for leading the Duquesne Spy Ring, which remains the largest espionage case in the history of the United States.
During World War II, the Hamilton Princess Hotel became a censorship centre where 1,200 censors intercepted and analysed all mail, radio, and telegraphic traffic bound for Europe, the United States, and the Far East. Working with the FBI, the censors helped uncover and arrest several Axis spy rings, including the Joe K ring. American military installations, including a naval air station and submarine base, were also established on the island and remained until 1995.