Jamaica Timeline
 

Jamaica Timeline

Jamaica Timeline
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First claimed by the Spanish
Jamaica is seized by the British
Morant Bay rebellion: Jamaica becomes a crown colony
Jamaican Independence
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   The Ciboney, Arawak and the Carib Indians first inhabited Jamaica 
     
  1492The island was not discovered by Europeans until  Christopher Columbus first landed in the New World 
     
  1509The Spanish claim the Island
Many of the indigenous Arawak community dies off from exposure to European diseases
African slaves shipped from Africa to work on the sugar plantations
 
     
  1500's1500-1600's: The Spanish were harassed by the native Caribs and by pirates and buccaneers who attacked the Spanish galleons which were carrying riches back to Spain. The pirates who operated in the Islands included Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Henry Morgan, Sir John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake 
     
  1655Jamaica is seized by the British. 
     
1670Treaty of Madrid: Jamaica formally cedes to the British
Jamaica became the world's largest sugar exporting nation with the massive use of imported African slave labor. The sugar plantations, worked by African slaves, lead to a slave trading and slave auctions
     
  1692The Jamaican capital Port Royal destroyed by an earthquake
Spanish Town becomes the new capital.
Kingston was founded
 
     
  1838Slavery abolished 
     
  1865Morant Bay rebellion:  Freed slaves are quelled in their rebellion against the British
Jamaica becomes a crown colony
 
     
  1870Banana plantations set up as the sugar cane industry declines 
     
  1884New constitution adopted 
     
  1938Serious riots  and People's National Party (PNP) founded by Norman Manley. 
     
  19391939-1945 WW2 
     
  1945August 1945 The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 
     
  1958 - Jamaica becomes a member of the Federation of the West Indies. 
     
  1961Jamaican withdrawal from the Federation of the West Indies. 
     
  1962Jamaican Independence: Jamaica becomes independent within the British Commonwealth
Alexander Bustamante elected prime minister.
 
     
  1972Michael Manley becomes prime minister for the PNP 
     
  1980Edward Seaga becomes prime minister and the US grants the government substantial aid as the country distances itself from Cuba 
     
  1988Hurricane Gilbert 
     
  1989Michael Manley returns as prime minister. 
     
  1992Manley retires and is succeeded as Prime Minister by Percival J Patterson. 
     
  1999July: The army patrols Kingston following a massive increase in crime. 
     
  2004September: Hurricane Ivan 
     
  2006February: Portia Simpson Miller is elected head of PNP
March: Portia Simpson Miller becomes Jamaica's first female PM in March.
 
     
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