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Jamaica's Asafa Powell set the record in June 2005 and held it until May 2008, with times of 9.77 and 9.74 seconds respectively. However, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Jamaica's athletes reached heights by nearly doubling the country's total gold medal count and breaking the nation's record for the number of medals earned in a single ...
The Crown 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 a British colony from 1707 and a Crown colony in 1866. The Colony was primarily used for sugarcane production, and experienced many slave rebellions over the course of British rule ...
Pages in category "Jamaica history-related lists" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Timeline of Kingston, Jamaica; W.
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]
History of Jamaica by topic (7 C, 1 P) * Jamaica history-related lists (11 P) E. Historical events in Jamaica (12 C, 1 P) H. Historiography of Jamaica (1 C, 1 P) K.
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.
Colony of Jamaica; Accompong town Defeat of the Jamaican Maroons. Maroon surrender; Baptist War (1831–1832) Slave rebels Colony of Jamaica: Defeat of the Slave rebels. Rebellion suppressed; Morant Bay rebellion (1865) Jamaicans from Morant Bay (Jamaica Committee) British Empire: Failure of Jamaican rebels. Phillips v Eyre decided in Eyre's favour
History portal; Jamaica portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. ...