Side by side
United Kingdom and Jamaica compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
12 July 927 — The monarchs of Britain recognise Æthelstan as king of the English
- Shared indicators
- 39
- Domains
- 9
- Crossed events
- 3
- Data through
- 2026-08-10
The figures, side by side
Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.
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Entangled histories
3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- 1655 CE
English conquest
An English force under Penn and Venables seizes the island for Cromwell, launching the sugar-and-slavery plantation economy.
War & Rupture · from the Jamaica chronicle · Spanish Colony and English Conquest · Jamaica: History, Jamaica: British rule
- 1944 CE
Universal adult suffrage
A new constitution grants every adult the vote, the first in the British Caribbean, and Jamaica holds its first elections under it.
Politics & Power · from the Jamaica chronicle · Self-Government and Independence · Jamaica: The independent country
- 1958 CE
West Indies Federation
Jamaica joins the federation of British Caribbean colonies as its largest member, an experiment in regional union.
Politics & Power · from the Jamaica chronicle · Self-Government and Independence · Jamaica: The independent country, The Federal Archives Fonds, 1958-1962 (West Indies Federation)