Colony of Jamaica and Dependencies was a British colony from 1655, when it was captured by the English Protectorate from the Spanish Empire. Jamaica became...
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This administrative structure for the Colony of Jamaica developed slowly. However, since 1 May 1867, Jamaica has been divided into the current fourteen...
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The Colony of Jamaica gained independence from the United Kingdom on 6 August 1962. In Jamaica, this date is celebrated as Independence Day, a national...
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Six vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Jamaica, after the island colony of Jamaica: HMS Jamaica (1710), a 14-gun sloop launched in 1710 and...
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location is the present-day island and nation of Jamaica. Around 650 AD, Jamaica was discovered by the people of the Ostionoid culture, who likely came from...
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granted for the colony of Jamaica in 1661 under Royal Warrant. The original design was created by William Sancroft, then Archbishop of Canterbury. The...
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Treaty of Madrid. The Colony of Jamaica remained a British possession until independence in 1962. In 1654, Oliver Cromwell and his Council of State planned...
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Jamaican Maroons descend from Africans who freed themselves from slavery in the Colony of Jamaica and established communities of free black people in the...
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This is a list of wars and conflicts involving Jamaica....
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formed during the period of British rule. The regiments were used extensively by the British to garrison the Colony of Jamaica and possessions in the West...
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The Caribbean Island of Jamaica was initially inhabited in approximately 600 AD or 650 AD by the Redware people, often associated with redware pottery...
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Thomas Thistlewood (redirect from Diary of Thomas Thistlewood)
the majority of his life in the British colony of Jamaica. Born in Tupholme, Lincolnshire, Thistlewood migrated to the western end of Jamaica where he “worked”...
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William Beckford (politician) (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
was born in the British colony of Jamaica, the son of Peter Beckford, Speaker of the House of Assembly there, and the grandson of Colonel Peter Beckford...
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flag of the Colony of Jamaica, it has been the flag of the Cayman Islands since the territory was granted self-government that year. The design of the...
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Baptist War (redirect from Christmas Uprising (Jamaica))
December 1831 and involved up to 60,000 of the 300,000 slaves in the Colony of Jamaica. The uprising was led by a black Baptist deacon, Samuel Sharpe, and...
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British Honduras (redirect from Colony of British Honduras)
British colony called British Honduras, and the Crown's representative was elevated to a lieutenant governor, subordinate to the governor of Jamaica. As the...
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the British colony of Jamaica, which was owned by Edward Jervis Jervis, 2nd Viscount St Vincent. "William Hopetoun Carnegie, 8th Earl of Northesk". University...
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This is a list of locations in which films of the James Bond series have been set and filmed (excepting Casino Royale, 1967, and Never Say Never Again...
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British America (redirect from British colonization of North America)
successor British Empire, in the Americas from the founding of Jamestown in the new Virginia colony in 1607 to 1783. These colonies were formally known as...
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Lady Colin Campbell (category Jamaican people of British descent)
of Sussex and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. Born into the Ziadie family, a prominent family of Lebanese descent, she grew up in the Colony of Jamaica...
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people in Jamaica fell into two categories. Some secured their freedom officially, and lived within the slave communities of the Colony of Jamaica. Others...
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Cayman Islands (redirect from Military of the Cayman Islands)
administered as a dependency of the Crown Colony of Jamaica. The islands continued to be governed as part of the Colony of Jamaica until 1962, when they became...
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British West Indies (category Jamaica–United Kingdom relations)
(1966) Jamaica (formerly Colony of Jamaica) (1962) Trinidad and Tobago (1962) Turks and Caicos Islands (British overseas territory) The origins of the British...
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(PPP) was Jamaica's first modern political party. It was formed in 1929 by Marcus Garvey. The PPP set out a 14 point manifesto—the first of its kind in...
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Spanish Town, Jamaica, to Thomas James Bernard (1796–1850), of Bellevue, south of Montego Bay; member of the Privy Council of the Colony of Jamaica, slave and...
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conquered Jamaica. The 1670 Treaty of Madrid was highly favourable to England, as its adverse possession in the Caribbean Sea and the rest of the Americas...
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Cubah Cornwallis (category People from Kingston, Jamaica)
"doctress" and Obeah woman who lived in the colony of Jamaica during the late 18th and 19th century. Little is known of her early life although records indicate...
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and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about 145 km (78 nmi) south of Cuba, 191 km (103 nmi) west of Hispaniola (the...
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it is one of the most senior public holidays celebrated in Jamaica. The Colony of Jamaica gained its independence from the United Kingdom on 6 August...
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King of the Miskitu Kingdom. Little is known about his reign, though he engaged in formal diplomatic agreements with the British colony of Jamaica. Spanish...
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