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...

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...

This administrative structure for the Colony of Jamaica developed slowly. However, since 1 May 1867, Jamaica has been divided into the current fourteen...

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...

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...

granted for the colony of Jamaica in 1661 under Royal Warrant. The original design was created by William Sancroft, then Archbishop of Canterbury. The...

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...

Jamaican Maroons descend from Africans who freed themselves from slavery on the Colony of Jamaica and established communities of free black people in the...

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...

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...

The Caribbean Island of Jamaica was initially inhabited in approximately 600 AD or 650 AD by the Redware people, often associated with redware pottery...

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...

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...

people in Jamaica fell into two categories. Some secured their freedom officially, and lived within the slave communities of the Colony of Jamaica. Others...

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...

sugar plantations and hundreds of slaves he owned in the British colony of Jamaica. In Britain, Beckford was a supporter of the Whig party, including Prime...

Virgin Islands Montserrat Nevis Anguilla Island of Jamaica and its dependencies Island of Jamaica Settlement of Belize in British Honduras Mosquito Coast Bay...

British colony called British Honduras, and the Crown's representative was elevated to a lieutenant governor, subordinate to the governor of Jamaica. As the...

September 1969) was a Jamaican statesman who served as the first and only Premier of Jamaica. A Rhodes Scholar, Manley became one of Jamaica's leading lawyers...

Black Pioneers from Nova Scotia, and in 1800 another 551 Jamaican Maroons from the Colony of Jamaica came to the new settlement. The Settler descendants gradually...

Town in 1760, they referred to it as Moore Town. The governor of the Colony of Jamaica at the time was Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet, and it is possible...

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...

of Jamaica (Jamaican Patois: Manaki a Jumieka) is a system of government in which a hereditary monarch is the sovereign and head of state of Jamaica....

House of Assembly was the legislature of the British colony of Jamaica. It held its first meeting on 20 January 1664 at Spanish Town. As a result of the...

make Jamaica a Crown Colony, governing it directly for decades. In 1969, the Jamaican government proclaimed Gordon as a National Hero of Jamaica. George...

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...

to join one of the crews under a false name. He was recognized by an old acquaintance and arrested. Vane was taken to Spanish Town, Jamaica and held in...

 1781), led a band of runaway slaves in the Colony of Jamaica in the eighteenth century. Many historians believed that after the Jamaican Maroons signed treaties...

Jamaica (/dʒəˈmeɪkə/ jə-MAY-kə; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka [dʒʌˈmie̯ka]) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square...

and Mary Read. The Assembly of the Colony of Jamaica gave him a financial reward, and a large estate in the parish of St James worked by African slaves...