Jamaican History Timeline & Facts
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The Ciboney,
Arawak and the Carib Indians first inhabited Jamaica
The name of the country derives from the Arawak name Xamayca,
meaning land of wood and water
The Caribs and the Arawaks were tropical forest people who
probably originated in South America and were related the
people found anywhere from Panama to Brazil
Not discovered by Europeans until 1492 when Christopher
Columbus first landed in the New World
Columbus used it as his family's private estate
The Spanish claimed the Islands
The Caribs and the Arawaks were progressively wiped out by
the after-effects of the Spanish conquest, with the more
peaceful Arawak tribes suffering the greater losses
The Spanish were continuously 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,
Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, Henry Morgan, Sir John Hawkins and
Sir Francis Drake
The British seized the island in 1670
Jamaica became the world's largest sugar exporting nation
with the massive use of imported African slave labor
The Jamaican sugar plantations, worked by African slaves,
lead to a slave trading and slave auctions
In 1838 slavery was formally abolished
1914 - 1918 WW1
1939 - 1945 WW11
August 1945 The United States dropped atomic bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1958 Jamaica became a province of the Federation of the West
Indies
Jamaica separated from the federation and became
independent, within the British Commonwealth, in 1962.
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