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1845 – Spanish Town-Kingston railway (Jamaica Railway Company) begins operating [17] and Kingston railway station opens. 1862 - Fire. [3] 1870 – Legislative Council of British Jamaica moves to Headquarters House. [2] 1872 Capital of British Jamaica relocated to Kingston from Spanish Town. [17] [3] Victoria Market built on site of "Sunday ...
The Caribbean Island of Jamaica was initially inhabited in approximately 600 AD or 650 AD by the Redware people, often associated with redware pottery. [1] [2] [3] By roughly 800 AD, a second wave of inhabitants occurred by the Arawak tribes, including the Tainos, prior to the arrival of Columbus in 1494. [1]
Pages in category "Jamaica history-related lists" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Timeline of Kingston, Jamaica; W.
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.
History of Kingston, Jamaica (1 C, 3 P) S. Historic sites in Jamaica (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "History of Jamaica" The following 5 pages are in this category, out ...
History of Kingston, Jamaica (1 C, 3 P) N. ... Pages in category "Kingston, Jamaica" ... Timeline of Kingston, Jamaica; Tuff Gong; W.
The Taino referred to the island as "Xaymaca," but the Spanish gradually changed the name to "Jamaica." [12] In the so-called Admiral's map of 1507, the island was labeled as "Jamaiqua"; and in Peter Martyr's first tract from the Decades of the New World (published 1511—1521), he refers to it as both "Jamaica" and "Jamica."
Scenes in Kingston after the 1882 fire. Map of Kingston, 1897. Kingston was founded on 22 July 1692, [10] [11] shortly after the 1692 earthquake that devastated Port Royal in 1692; the original section of the city which was situated at the bottom of the Liguanea Plains was laid out to house survivors of that earthquake.