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  2. History of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    A major reason for the decline was the British Parliament's 1807 abolition of the slave trade, under which the transportation of slaves to Jamaica after 1 March 1808 was forbidden. The abolition of the slave trade was followed by the abolition of slavery in 1834 and full emancipation of slaves within four years.

  3. Category:Historical events in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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  4. Independence of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    After 146 years of Spanish rule, a large group of British sailors and soldiers landed in the Kingston Harbour on 10 May 1655, during the Anglo-Spanish War. [4] The English, who had set their sights on Jamaica after a disastrous defeat in an earlier attempt to take the island of Hispaniola, marched toward Villa de la Vega, the administrative center of the island.

  5. Category:History of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Historical events in Jamaica (12 C, 1 P) H. ... Pages in category "History of Jamaica" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.

  6. List of Jamaica hurricanes - Wikipedia

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    Hurricane Gilbert was the strongest landfalling storm in Jamaican history. The island nation of Jamaica lies in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba and west of Hispaniola.It frequently experiences the effects of Atlantic tropical cyclones that track across the Caribbean, with impacting storms often originating east of the Windward Islands or in the southern Caribbean between Nicaragua and Colombia.

  7. List of wars involving Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Colony of Jamaica; British government offers peace treaties. Cudjoe agrees to stop attacks, not take part in new escapees and help captured slaves; British give Leeward Maroons their freedom, own land, the right to hunt wild pigs and have their own government; Tacky's Revolt (1760–1761) Coromantee rebels: Great Britain. Colony of Jamaica ...

  8. Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Jamaica is an upper-middle-income country [15] with an economy heavily dependent on tourism; it has an average of 4.3 million tourists a year. [20] Jamaica is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, with power vested in the bicameral Parliament of Jamaica, consisting of an appointed Senate and a directly elected House of Representatives. [9]

  9. Invasion of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Although major settlements like Santiago de la Vega, now Spanish Town, were poorly defended and quickly occupied, resistance by escaped slaves, or Jamaican Maroons, continued in the interior. The Western Design was largely a failure, but Jamaica remained in English hands, and was formally ceded by Spain in the 1670 Treaty of Madrid.