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Name: jamaica

Type: Cluster

Start: 1670 AD

End: 2022 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Jamaica (Great Britain)
  • Jamaica
  • Establishment


  • August 1670: The 1670 treaty was signed by Spanish King Charles II and British King Charles II. The cession of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands marked the end of Spanish control in the region and solidified British dominance in the Caribbean.
  • Chronology


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    1. Anglo-Spanish War (1654-60)


    Was a war between the Kingdom of Spains and the Commonwealth of England caused by commercial rivalry.

    1.1.Treaty of Madrid (1670)

    Was the treaty that ended the Anglo-Spanish War (1654-1660).


    2. Glorious Revolution


    Was a revolution in England and Scotland that led to the deposition of Catholic King James II.

  • November 1688: By November 1688 William of Orange, who was Stadtholder of the Netherlands, and his wife Mary, were in control of England and Wales. They would later become King and Queen of Great Britain.

  • 3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • March 1702: As William III of England was also the de facto ruler of the Dutch Republic (as Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic), the Personal Union between Netherlands and Great Britain ended at his death.

  • August 1962: Jamaica achieved independence from the United Kingdom.

  • Selected Sources


  • Israel, J. I. (1995): The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, Clarendon Press, pp. 959-960
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