| 1494 |
3 May |
Columbus landed in Jamaica |
| 1655 |
10 May |
British Capture Jamaica from Spanish |
| 1662 |
Oct |
Population 3,653 Whites, 552 Negros, total 4,205 |
| 1663 |
Year |
Jews started settling in Jamaica under British |
| 1664 |
Jun |
Four hundred planters came from Barbados |
| 1664 |
Jul |
Sir Thomas Modyford came with 200 planters |
| 1670 |
Year |
There were 70 Sugar Works in Jamaica |
| 1673 |
Year |
Population 7,768 Whites, 9504 Negros, total 17,272 |
| 1675 |
1 Sep |
1100 Surinam Settlers Arrived (to St Elizabeth) |
| 1678 |
Year |
Jamaica, Rebellion, Caused by prolongation of martial
law |
| 1684 |
Year |
Jamaica, Rebellion, first serious one |
| 1686 |
Year |
Jamaica, Rebellion,sanguinary, at Chapelton, Clarendon
|
| 1690 |
Year |
SlStretch Rebellion, Chapelton, Clarendon |
| 1691 |
Year |
Jamaica, Rebellion, many White people murdered |
| 1692 |
7 Jun |
Earthquake, destroyed Port Royal |
| 1693 |
Jun |
Kingston was laid out |
| 1702 |
Year |
Jamaica, Rebellion, eastern districts |
| 1704 |
9 Jan |
Fire destroyed Port Royal |
| 1711 |
Jun |
Hurricane, Westmoreland, Property destroyed |
| 1712 |
28 Aug |
Hurricane, All Island |
| 1712 |
28 Aug |
Earthquake |
| 1714 |
29 Aug |
Hurricane |
| 1717 |
Year |
Jamaica, Rebellion, repeated attempts, causing great
alarm |
| 1722 |
28 Aug |
Free School founded at Walton, St Ann |
| 1722 |
Year |
Jamaica, Rebellion, Musquito Indians introduced to quell
it |
| 1722 |
28 Aug |
Hurricane, All Island and Earthquake |
| 1726 |
22 Oct |
Storm |
| 1728 |
Jun |
Coffee introduced in Jamaiaca from French West Indies
by Sir Nicholas Lawes at Temple Hall, St Andrew. |
| 1729 |
Year |
Wolmers Free School Established |
| 1734 |
Year |
Jamaica, Rebellion, the Negro town Nanny taken |
| 1738 |
1 Mar |
Jamaica, Rebellion, under Cudjoe |
| 1738 |
Year |
Mannings School, Savanna-La-Mar founded |
| 1739 |
Year |
There were 429 Sugar Works in Jamaica |
| 1739 |
Jun |
Jamaica, Rebellion, under Quaco, in Trelawney |
| 1740 |
Year |
Jamaica, Rebellion, speedily subdued |
| 1744 |
20 Oct |
Earthquake & Hurricane, Sav-La-Mar destroyed, Kingston
& Port Royal badly damaged |
| 1745 |
Year |
Jamaica, conspiracy to assassinate the Whites |
| 1746 |
Year |
SlStretch Insurrection |
| 1751 |
2 Sep |
Storm |
| 1754 |
7 Dec |
Moravian Mission Founded |
| 1755 |
Year |
Kingston became the capitol |
| 1758 |
Year |
Spanish Town restored as capitol |
| 1758 |
Year |
Jamaica, Rebellion in Trelawney |
| 1760 |
Easter Mon |
Jamaica, Rebellion, under Tackey; Port Maria,60 Whites,
400 Negroes killed |
| 1764 |
Year |
Population 166,454 (146,454 SlStretchs) |
| 1765 |
Year |
Jamaica, Rebellion,Coromantees the insurgents |
| 1766 |
Year |
Jamaica, Rebellion in Westmoreland |
| 1766 |
Year |
Hurricane, Western End of the Island |
| 1768 |
Year |
There were 651 Sugar Works in Jamaica |
| 1768 |
Oct |
Drought to May 1770 |
| 1769 |
Year |
Jamaica, conspiracy discovered in Kingston |
| 1771 |
Year |
Jamaica, conspiracy; assembly of 500 surprised by the
militia |
| 1773 |
2 Oct |
Hurricane |
| 1775 |
Year |
Population 209,617 (12,737 Whites, 4,093 Free Coloured,
192,787 SlStretchs) |
| 1777 |
Year |
Jamaica, Rebellion, followed by thirty executions |
| 1780 |
3 Oct |
Hurricane, Sav-La-Mar destroyed, Westemoreland devasted
|
| 1781 |
1 Aug |
Hurricane, 120 vessels wrecked in Kingston |
| 1782 |
Year |
Jamaica, Rebellion, St Mary's under Three-fingered Jack
|
| 1784 |
10 Jul |
Hurricane |
| 1784 |
30 Jul |
Hurricane |
| 1785 |
27 Aug |
Hurricane |
| 1785 |
Year |
Population 30,000 Whites,10,000 Free coloured, 250,000
SlStretchs |
| 1786 |
20 Oct |
Drought, Hurricane, 15,000 lives lost |
| 1789 |
19 Jan |
Dr Thomas Coke Methodist Missionary arrived in Jamaica
|
| 1793 |
Year |
2nd Maroon War |
| 1794 |
Feb |
Breadfruit brought from Tahiti to Jamaica |
| 1795 |
Jul |
Jamaica, Rebellion, Trelawney Maroons |
| 1795 |
2 Aug |
Martial Law, Montego Bay destroyed by fire |
| 1796 |
Year |
Jamaica, Rebellion, Maroon War; 600 transported to Nova
Scotia to Sierra Leone |
| 1798 |
Year |
Jamaica, Rebellion, under Cuffee; Trelawney great distruction
of rebels |
| 1803 |
Year |
Jamaica, conspiracy to murder the Whites discovered
|
| 1804 |
Year |
Two Hurricanes |
| 1807 |
Year |
Population 319,351 |
| 1808 |
27 May |
Jamaica, Muntiny of Black Troops, 2nd WIR, Fort Augusta
|
| 1808 |
Year |
Jamaica, conspiracy of a very serious character |
| 1809 |
Mar |
Jamaica, conspiracy against the Whites in Kingston |
| 1812 |
12-4 Oct |
Hurricane |
| 1812 |
11 Nov |
Earthquake |
| 1814 |
23 Feb |
Baptist Mission Founded |
| 1815 |
13 Jul |
Fire in Port Royal |
| 1815 |
18-9 Oct |
Hurricane |
| 1816 |
Year |
Methodist Conference started |
| 1818 |
20 Nov |
Hurricane |
| 1818 |
Oct |
Hurricane |
| 1819 |
Year |
Methodists in the Island - 6,540 |
| 1822 |
Year |
Severe Drought |
| 1824 |
Year |
Presbyterian Church Founded |
| 1824 |
Year |
Jamaica, insurrection; Portland, St Georges and St Mary
|
| 1824 |
Year |
Episcopal See Established |
| 1830 |
Year |
Hurricane |
| 1831 |
28 Dec |
SlStretch uprising in St James, Trelawney, Hanover,Westmoreland,St
Elizabeth, Manchester |
| 1832 |
Year |
Jamaica, Rebellion; 200 killed in the field; about 500
executed |
| 1832 |
7 Aug |
Hurricane |
| 1834 |
1 Aug |
SlStretchry Abolished |
| 1834 |
13 Sep |
First issue of The Daily Gleaner Newspaper |
| 1835 |
Year |
Jon Wieson Davis laid out a Race Track at Drax Hall,
St Ann |
| 1838 |
1 Aug |
Apprenticeship abolished |
| 1839 |
Year |
Drought |
| 1840 |
Year |
Drought |
| 1841 |
Spring |
Drought |
| 1841 |
Year |
Riot in Kingston |
| 1844 |
Year |
Census 377,433 |
| 1844 |
5 Oct |
Hurricane Western Parishes |
| 1845 |
21 Nov |
Jamaica Railway established |
| 1850 |
Jun |
Asiatic Cholera epidemic, 32,000 died |
| 1854 |
Year |
472 Chinese came to Jamaica from Panama |
| 1865 |
11 Oct |
Morant Bay Rebellion |
| 1871 |
Year |
Population 506,154 |
| 1874 |
Nov |
Hurricane |
| 1879 |
8 Oct |
Hurricane |
| 1880 |
18-9 Aug |
Hurricane, Damaged Kingston |
| 1881 |
Year |
Population 580,804 |
| 1882 |
11 Dec |
Fire, Kingston |
| 1887 |
Year |
Outbreak of Small Pox to 1888 |
| 1889 |
Year |
Population 639,491 |
| 1903 |
11 Aug |
Hurricane, North Eastern, Jamaica |
| 1907 |
14 Jan |
Earthquake, Destroyed Kingston/Port Royal, Loss 2.0
million pounds |
| 1912 |
17-8 Nov |
Hurricane, Western Parishes |
| 1915 |
12-13 Aug |
Hurricane |
| 1915 |
25-6 Sep |
Storm |
| 1916 |
15 Aug |
Hurricane, All Jamaica |
| 1916 |
16 Aug |
Hurricane, All Jamaica |
| 1917 |
May |
Women won the right to vote |
| 1917 |
23 Sep |
Hurricane |
| 1933 |
14 Aug |
Flood in Kingston/St Andrew |
| 1933 |
15 Aug |
Flood in Kingston/St Andrew |
| 1939 |
1 Apr |
Telephone connected in Jamaica |
| 1944 |
20 Aug |
Disastrous Hurricane |
| 1951 |
17 Aug |
Hurricane Charlie, Kingston/Port Royal/Morant Bay damaged
|
| 1957 |
1 Mar |
Earthquake, 8 on Richter Scale, epicenter Hanover, St
James |
| 1962 |
6 Aug |
Independence from Britain |
| 1963 |
5 Oct |
Hurricane Flora |
| 1963 |
6 Oct |
Hurricane Flora |
| 1963 |
7 Oct |
Hurricane Flora |
| 1988 |
12 Sep |
Hurricane Gilbert, winds 120 mph, entire South Coast,
80% Houses damaged or destroyed |