Timeline of Kingston, Jamaica
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kingston, Jamaica.
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Prior to 19th century
- 1692 - 7 June: Earthquake destroys Port Royal; residents resettle nearby thus establishing Kingston.[1]
- 1690s - Parish Church built (approximate date).[2]
- 1712 - Hurricane.[3]
- 1720 - Pirate Calico Jack hanged.
- 1722
- 1729 - Wolmers's School founded.
- 1740 - "Twelve Apostles" battery constructed.[1]
- 1746 - Theatre opens in Harbour Street.[5]
- 1750 - Sephardic synagogue built.[1]
- 1755
- House of Assembly (legislature of British Jamaica) relocated to Kingston from Spanish Town.[6]
- Population: 10,000 (approximate).[1]
- 1771 - September: Earthquake.[1]
- 1775 - American Company of Comedians in performance.[7]
- 1783 - Kingston Race Course laid out.
- 1788 - Population: 26,478 (of which 16,659 were slaves).[1]
- 1794 - Kingston Medical Society founded.[8]
19th century
- 1802 - Kingston incorporated.[9]
- 1807 - Slave trade officially abolished per Slave Trade Act.
- 1823 - Population: 33,000 (approximate).[10]
- 1824 - Jamaica Journal and Kingston Chronicle newspaper begins publication.[11]
- 1825 - Jamaica Horticultural Society founded.[8]
- 1834
- Slavery officially abolished per Slavery Abolition Act.
- Jamaica Gleaner newspaper begins publication.[12][13]
- Mico College founded.[2]
- 1843
- 1845 - Spanish Town-Kingston railway (Jamaica Railway Company) begins operating[15] and Kingston railway station opens.
- 1870 - Legislative Council of British Jamaica moves to Headquarters House.[2]
- 1872
- Capital of British Jamaica relocated to Kingston from Spanish Town.[15]
- Victoria Market built on site of "Sunday/Negro market."[16]
- Jamaica Club founded.[2]
- 1879 - Institute of Jamaica[17] and Sugar Wharf established.[18]
- 1881
- 1882 - 11 December: Fire.[21]
- 1885 - Shaare Shalom Synagogue built.
- 1887 - Jubilee Market dedicated.[22]
- 1890 - Chinese Benevolent Society founded.[15]
- 1891
- 1894 - Montego Bay-Kingston railway begins operating.[15]
- 1897 - Victoria Park opens (approximate date).
- 1898 - Adrian Robinson becomes mayor.[24]
- 1899 - Electric tram begins operating.
20th century
1900s-1950s
- 1907 - 14 January: Earthquake.[25]
- 1908 - King's House, Jamaica built.
- 1910 - Alpha Boys Band active.[26]
- 1912
- 1914 - Population: 57,379.[2]
- 1918 - Myrtle Bank Hotel rebuilt.[23]
- 1923 - Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (city government) formed.[27]
- 1927
- December: Marcus Garvey returns to Kingston.
- Heritage Dam built.[24]
- 1929
- Blackman newspaper begins publication.[28]
- August: Universal Negro Improvement Association Convention held.[28]
- 1930 - Sabina Park (cricket ground) established.
- 1935 - King of Kings Ethiopian Mission founded (approximate date).[29][30]
- 1938 - Carib Theatre opens.[31]
- 1947 - Alexander Bustamante elected mayor.
- 1948
- Kingston Air Traffic Control Centre and Palisadoes Airport established.
- University College of the West Indies established near city.
- 1951 - August: Hurricane Charlie.
- 1956 - Catholic Diocese of Kingston formed.
- 1957 - Earthquake.[32]
- 1958 - Iris King becomes mayor.[24]
1960s-1990s
- 1960
- Parliament of Jamaica moves to Gordon House.[6]
- Population: 339,676.[33]
- 1962
- 6 August: City becomes part of independent Jamaica.[15]
- Independence Park (sports complex) opens.
- 15–28 August: 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games held.
- Tivoli Gardens housing complex in Back O'Wall built.[34]
- 1963
- Studio One (record label) in business.[35]
- McIntyre Land Citizens' Association formed.[36]
- 1964 - 11 November: Burial of Marcus Garvey in King George VI Memorial Park.[37]
- 1965 - Ethnic unrest.
- 1966
- 21 April: Haile Selassie visits Jamaica.
- August: 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games held.
- 1967 - Population: 421,581.[33]
- 1968 - Jamaica Stock Exchange founded.
- 1970 - Tuff Gong record label founded.
- 1973 - Jamaica Pegasus Hotel built.
- 1979 - National Library of Jamaica headquartered in city.
- 1987 - Bob Marley Museum opens.[38]
- 1989 - Marie Atkins becomes mayor.[39]
- 1990 - African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica / Jamaica Memory Bank headquartered in Kingston.[40]
- 1993 - The Jamaica Observer newspaper begins publication.
21st century
- 2001 - Population: 579,137.[41]
- 2002 - Emancipation Park established.[42]
- 2003
- Passa Passa begins.[43]
- Desmond McKenzie becomes mayor.
- 2008 - Monument "In Memory of Children Killed" unveiled.[44]
- 2010 - May–June: 2010 Kingston unrest.
- 2011 - Population: 937,700.
- 2012 - Angela Brown-Burke becomes mayor.
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Marley 2005.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Aspinall 1914.
- 1 2 Marrion Wilcox; George E. Rines, eds. (1917), "Jamaica", Encyclopedia of Latin America, New York: Encyclopedia Americana Corporation, OCLC 603664
- ↑ Frank Cundall. "Press and Printers of Jamaica Prior to 1820". Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. 26(2): 290-412. 1916.
- ↑ Errol Hill (1992), The Jamaican Stage, 1655-1900: profile of a colonial theatre, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN 0870237799
- 1 2 "History of Jamaica's Legislature". Jamaica Houses of Parliament. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
- ↑ Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy (2000), An Empire Divided: the American Revolution and the British Caribbean, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 0812235584
- 1 2 3 Frank Cundall (January 3, 1896). "Jamaica in the Past and Present". Journal of the Society of Arts (London) 44.
- 1 2 Arnaboldi 1852.
- ↑ Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Kingston", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
- ↑ "Kingston (Jamaica) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
- ↑ "Newspaper Archives of The Jamaica Gleaner". NewspaperArchive.com. Heritage Microfilm, Inc. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
- ↑ Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. (2005). "Knowledge Biodiversity: The Perilous Economics of World News Heritage Materials". Association of College and Research Libraries, 2005 national conference. American Library Association. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
- ↑ S.P. Musson; T. Laurence Roxburgh. Handbook of Jamaica for 1895. London: E. Stanford.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "History Notes: Information on Jamaica's Culture & Heritage". National Library of Jamaica. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
- ↑ Brown-Glaude 2011.
- 1 2 "Kingston Heritage Sites". Jamaica National Heritage Trust. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
- ↑ Handbook of Jamaica, London: E. Stanford, 1922
- 1 2 Jos. C. Ford; Frank Cundall (1908), Handbook of Jamaica for 1908, London: E. Stanford
- ↑ "Kingston". Jamaica. Lonely Planet. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
- ↑ Jamaica in 1896: A Handbook of Information for Intending Settlers and Others. Institute of Jamaica.
- ↑ Ober 1920.
- 1 2 "Jamaica's Grand Hotels". Jamaica Gleaner. 26 November 2001. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 "History". Kingston & St. Andrew Corporation. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
- ↑ "Quake and Fire Wreck Kingston". New York Times. 16 January 1907.
- ↑ Witmer 1987.
- ↑ "Local government in the Caribbean". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
- 1 2 Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, UCLA. "American Series Introduction: Volume VII: December 1927--August 1940". Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project. University of California. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
- ↑ Ennis B. Edmonds (2012). Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191642470.
- ↑ Barry Chevannes (1994), Rastafari: roots and ideology, Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press, ISBN 081562638X
- ↑ "Movie Theaters in Kingston, Jamaica". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
- ↑ "Quake Rocks Jamaica". New York Times. 2 March 1957.
- 1 2 Clarke 1975a.
- ↑ Sives 2002.
- ↑ "Mexico and Central America, 1900 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved November 2014.
- ↑ Anderson 2007.
- ↑ Robert A. Hill, ed. (1983), The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, 1: 1826 - August 1919, University of California Press, ISBN 9780520044562
- ↑ Jalani Niaah; Sonjah Stanley Niaah (2008), "Bob Marley, Rastafari, and the Jamaican Tourism Product", in Marcella Daye; et al., New Perspectives in Caribbean Tourism, Routledge, ISBN 9780415958387
- ↑ "Remembering Mayor Marie Atkins". The Gleaner. 11 January 2009.
- ↑ African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank. "About". Government of Jamaica, Agency of the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
- ↑ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012.
- ↑ "History of Emancipation Park". Government of Jamaica. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
- ↑ Denise Campbell (29 May 2009). "The Dance That Could Save Kingston". The Root. Washington, DC: The Slate Group.
- ↑ "The monument". Kingston & St. Andrew Corporation. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012.
Bibliography
- Published in the 18th-19th centuries
- Edward Long (1774), "Parish and Town of Kingston", History of Jamaica, London: T. Lowndes
- G. Arnaboldi (1852). Tourist's Guide to the Chief Towns And Villages of the Island of Jamaica. Kingston.
- James Henry Stark (1898), "Kingston", Stark's Jamaica guide, Boston: J.H. Stark
- Lillian D. Kelsey (January 1898). "Winter Days in Jamaica: In and About Kingston". The International: an Illustrated Monthly Magazine (Chicago: Brower) 4.
- Published in the 20th century
- "Kingston, Jamaica", Tourist guide to the West Indies, Venezuela, Isthmus of Panama and Bermuda, New York: Hamburg-American Line, 1909, OCLC 58672123
- "Kingston", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- Algernon E. Aspinall (1914), "Kingston", Pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama Canal, Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company
- Frederick A. Ober (1920), "Kingston", Guide to the West Indies, Bermuda and Panama, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, OCLC 1515460
- M. G. Smith; Roy Augier; Rex Nettleford (1967). "The Rastafari Movement In Kingston, Jamaica". Caribbean Quarterly 13.
- Tom Graham (1972). Kingston 100 years. Kingston, Jamaica: T. Graham.
- Colin G. Clarke (1975), Ecological aspects of population growth in Kingston, Jamaica 4, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, pp. 42–55, JSTOR 25765506
- Colin G. Clarke (1975), Kingston, Jamaica: urban development and social change, 1692-1962, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 0520020251
- Jack Alexander (1977). "The Culture of Race in Middle-Class Kingston, Jamaica". American Ethnologist 4. doi:10.1525/ae.1977.4.3.02a00020.
- Pauline Knight and Omar Davies (1978). "Analysis of residential location patterns in the Kingston Metropolitan Area". Social and Economic Studies 27.
- Wilma Bailey (1978). "Social control in the pre-Emancipation society of Kingston, Jamaica". Boletín de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe (24).
- L. Alan Eyre (1984). "Political Violence and Urban Geography in Kingston, Jamaica". Geographical Review 74.
- Robert Witmer (1987). "'Local and 'Foreign': The Popular Music Culture of Kingston, Jamaica, before Ska, Rock Steady, and Reggae". Latin American Music Review 8.
- Swithin Wilmot (1990). "Politics of protest in free Jamaica: The Kingston John Canoe Christmas Riots, 1840 and 1841". Caribbean Quarterly 36.
- Published in the 21st century
- Amanda Sives (2002). "Changing Patrons, from Politician to Drug Don: Clientelism in Downtown Kingston, Jamaica". Latin American Perspectives 29.
- David Marley (2005), "Kingston", Historic Cities of the Americas, Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, ISBN 1576070271
- Michelle Stewart (2005). "Creole Language in Kingston: The Emergence of Basilectal Varieties - 1692-1865". Caribbean Quarterly 51.
- Colin Clarke and David Howard (2006). "Contradictory Socio-Economic Consequences of Structural Adjustment in Kingston, Jamaica". The Geographical Journal 172.
- Colin G. Clarke (2006). Decolonizing the colonial city: urbanization and stratification in Kingston, Jamaica. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191515033.
- Patricia Anderson (2007). "Challenge of housing and community conflict in East and West Kingston". Social and Economic Studies 56.
- Winnifred R. Brown-Glaude (2011), Higglers in Kingston: women's informal work in Jamaica, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, ISBN 9780826517654
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