A Time Line of Jewish Jamaica

1. 1494 3 May Columbus discovered Jamaica
2. 1508 Year Columbus family propriety rights for Jamaica recognized
3. 1655 10 May British Capture Jamaica from Spanish
4. 1662 October Population 3,653 whites, 552 Negroes, total 4,205
5. 1663 Year Jews started settling in Jamaica under British
6. 1664 June Four hundred planters came from Barbados
7. 1664 July Sir Thomas Modyford came with 200 planters
8. 1670 Year There were 70 Sugar Works in Jamaica
9. 1673 Year Population 7,768 whites, 9504 Negroes, total 17,272
10. 1675 1 September 1100 Surinam Settlers Arrived (to St. Elizabeth)
11. 1678 Year Jamaica, Rebellion, Caused by prolongation of martial law
12. 1684 Year Jamaica, Rebellion, first serious one
13. 1686 Year Jamaica, Rebellion, sanguinary, at Chapelton, Clarendon
14. 1690 Year Slave Rebellion, Chapelton, Clarendon
15. 1691 Year Jamaica, Rebellion, many white people murdered
16. 1691 November 25 "Auto General de la Fee" in Toledo, Spain
17. 1692 7 June, Earthquake destroyed Port Royal. Edmund Heath's account of the earthquake and of the synagogue falling- Page 1, Page 2, Page 3
18. 1693 June Kingston was laid out
19. 1702 Year Jamaica, Rebellion, eastern districts
20. 1704 9 Jan Fire destroyed Port Royal
21. 1704 Year K.K. Neveh Shalom, Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, consecrated
22. 1711 June Hurricane, Westmoreland, Property destroyed
23. 1712 28 August Hurricane, All Island
24. 1712 28 August Earthquake
25. 1714 29 August Hurricane
26. 1717 Year Jamaica, Rebellion, repeated attempts, causing great alarm
27. 1720 Year first book printed under British rule, Daniel Israel Lopez Laguna
28. 1722 28 August Free School founded at Walton, St. Ann
29. 1722 Year Jamaica, Rebellion, Musquito Indians introduced to quell it
30. 1722 28 August Hurricane, All Island and Earthquake
31. 1726 22 October Storm
32. 1728 June Coffee introduced in Jamaica from French West Indies by Sir Nicholas Lawes at Temple Hall, St. Andrew.
33. 1729 Year Wolmers Free School Established
34. 1734 Year Jamaica, Rebellion, the Negro town Nanny taken
35. 1738 1 March Jamaica, Rebellion, under Cudjoe
36. 1739 Year There were 429 Sugar Works in Jamaica
37. 1739 June Jamaica, Rebellion, under Quaco, in Trelawney
38. 1740 Year Jamaica, Rebellion, speedily subdued
39. 1744 20 October Earthquake & Hurricane, Savannah la Mar destroyed, Kingston & Port Royal badly damaged
40. 1745 Year Jamaica, conspiracy to assassinate the whites
41. 1746 Year Slave Insurrection
42. 1751 2 September Storm
43. 1754 7 December Moravian Mission Founded
44. 1755 Year Kingston became the capitol
45. 1758 Year Spanish Town restored as capitol
46. 1758 Year Jamaica, Rebellion in Trelawney
47. 1760 Easter Monday Jamaica, Rebellion, under Tackey; Port Maria, 60 whites 400 Negroes killed
48. 1764 Year Population 166,454 (146,454 Slaves)
49. 1765 Year Jamaica, Rebellion, Coromantees the insurgents
50. 1766 Year Jamaica, Rebellion in Westmoreland
51. 1766 Year Hurricane, Western End of the Island
52. 1768 Year There were 651 Sugar Works in Jamaica
53. 1768 October Drought to May 1770
54. 1769 Year Jamaica, conspiracy discovered in Kingston
55. 1771 Year Jamaica, conspiracy; assembly of 500 surprised by the militia
56. 1773 2 October Hurricane
57. 1775 Year Population 209,617 (12,737 Whites, 4,093 Free Coloured, 192,787 Slaves)
58. 1777 Year Jamaica, Rebellion, followed by thirty executions
59. 1780 3 October Hurricane, Savannah la Mar destroyed, Westmoreland devastated
60. 1781 1 August Hurricane, 120 vessels wrecked in Kingston
61. 1782 Year Jamaica, Rebellion, St. Mary's under Three-fingered Jack
62. 1784 10 July Hurricane
63. 1784 30 July Hurricane
64. 1785 27 August Hurricane
65. 1785 Year Population 30,000 whites, 10,000 free Coloured, 250,000 slaves
66. 1786 20 October Drought, Hurricane, 15,000 lives lost
67. 1789 19 Jan Dr Thomas Coke Methodist Missionary arrived in Jamaica
68. 1793 Year 2nd Maroon War
69. 1794 February Breadfruit brought from Tahiti to Jamaica
70. 1795 July Jamaica, Rebellion, Trelawney Maroons
71. 1795 2 August Martial Law, Montego Bay destroyed by fire
72. 1796 Year Jamaica, Rebellion, Maroon War; 600 transported to Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone
73. 1709 Year K. K. Mikve Yisrael, Ashkenasic synagogue, consecrated
74. 1798 Year Jamaica, Rebellion,under Cuffee; Trelawney great destruction of rebels
75. 1803 Year Jamaica, conspiracy to murder the whites discovered
76. 1804 Year Two Hurricanes
77. 1807 Year Population 319,351
78. 1808 27 May Jamaica, Mutiny of Black Troops, 2nd WIR, Fort Augusta
79. 1808 Year Jamaica, conspiracy of a very serious character
80. 1809 March Jamaica, conspiracy against the whites in Kingston
81. 1812 12-4 October Hurricane
82. 1812 11 November Earthquake
83. 1814 23 February Baptist Mission Founded
84. 1815 13 July Fire in Port Royal
85. 1815 18-9 October Hurricane
86. 1816 Year Methodist Conference started
87. 1818 20 November Hurricane
88. 1818 October Hurricane
89. 1819 Year Methodists in the Island - 6,540
90. 1822 Year Severe Drought
91. 1824 Year Presbyterian Church Founded
92. 1824 Year Jamaica, insurrection; Portland, St. George's and St. Mary
93. 1824 Year Episcopal See Established
94. 1830 Year Hurricane
95. 1831 September 19, Privy Council in England confirms Act removing disabilities of the Jews in Jamaica
96. 1831 December 12, Tankard presented to Moses Delgado to recognize his work on behalf or Jewish rights
97. 1831 28 December Slave uprising in St. James, Trelawney, Hanover, Westmoreland, St. Elizabeth, Manchester
98. 1832 Year Jamaica, Rebellion; 200 killed in the field; about 500 executed
99. 1832 7 August Hurricane
100. 1834 1 August Slavery Abolished
101. 1834 13 September First issue of The Daily Gleaner Newspaper
102. 1835 Year Jon Wieson Davis laid out a Race Track at Drax Hall, St. Ann
103. 1838 1 August Apprenticeship abolished
104. 1839 Year Drought
105. 1840 Year Drought
106. 1841 Spring Drought
107. 1841 Year Riot in Kingston
108. 1843 September 16, Ebenezer DePass killed by shell fragment
109. 1844 Year Census 377,433
110. 1844 5 October Hurricane Western Parishes
111. 1845 21 November Jamaica Railway established
112. 1850 June Asiatic Cholera epidemic, 32,000 died
113. 1854 Year 472 Chinese came to Jamaica from Panama
114. 1865 11 October Morant Bay Rebellion
115. 1871 Year Population 506,154
116. 1874 November Hurricane
117. 1879 8 October Hurricane
118. 1880 18-9 August Hurricane, Damaged Kingston
119. 1881 Year Population 580,804
120. 1882 11 December, Fire in Kingston destroys Spanish and Portuguese and Ashkenasic synagogues and many buildings
121. 1887 Year Outbreak of Small Pox to 1888
122. 1889 Year Population 639,491
123. 1903 11 August Hurricane, North Eastern, Jamaica
124. 1907 14 Jan Earthquake, Destroyed Kingston/Port Royal, Loss 2.0 million pounds
125. 1912 17-8 November Hurricane, Western Parishes
126. 1915 12-13 August Hurricane
127. 1915 25-6 September Storm
128. 1916 15 August Hurricane, All Jamaica
129. 1916 16 August Hurricane, All Jamaica
130. 1917 May Women won the right to vote
131. 1917 23 September Hurricane
132. 1933 14 August Flood in Kingston/St. Andrew
133. 1933 15 August Flood in Kingston/St. Andrew
134. 1935 The bodies of Jacob DeCordova and his wife Rebecca were re-interred at the State Cemetery in Austin Texas, from Bosque Country. DeCordova was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, on June 6, 1808, founded the Daily Gleaner in 1834, and the city of Waco, Texas. The reburial was to honor those who had contributed to the development of the State of Texas.
135. 1939 1 April Telephone connected in Jamaica
136. 1944 20 August Disastrous Hurricane
137. 1951 17 August Hurricane Charlie, Kingston/Port Royal/Morant Bay damaged
138. 1957 1 March Earthquake, 8 on Richter Scale, epicenter Hanover, St. James
139. 1962 6 August Independence from Britain
140. 1963 5 October Hurricane Flora
141. 1963 6 October Hurricane Flora
142. 1963 7 October Hurricane Flora
143. 1988 12 September Hurricane Gilbert, winds 120 mph, entire South Coast, 80% Houses damaged or destroyed