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AD 1840
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Treaty of Waitangi: signed between British and Maoris in New Zealand
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AD 1842
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France annexes the Marquesas Islands and makes Tahiti a protectorate
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AD 1845
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Outbreak of New Zealand Wars; Maoris rebel against British over land rights
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AD 1853
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France annexes New Caledonia
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AD 1864
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Transportation of criminals to Australia abolished
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AD 1864
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First French convicts sent to New Caledonia
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AD 1874
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Fiji becomes a British crown colony
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AD 1878
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New Caledonians rebel against French
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AD 1880
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France annexes Tahiti as a colony
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AD 1884
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Germany annexes Admiralty Islands
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AD 1884
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Germany claims Bismarck Archipelago
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AD 1886
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New Guinea formally divided into German New Guinea and British Papua
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AD 1893
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New Zealand becomes first country to give women the vote
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AD 1893
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Britain declares a Protectorate over the southern Solomon Islands
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AD 1898
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United States annexes Hawaii
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AD 1898
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Northern Solomon Islands transferred to British Protectorate by treaty with Germany
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AD 1898
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Spain sells Caroline Islands to Germany
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AD 1899
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US and Germany divide Samoa
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AD 1899
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Spain cedes Palau to Germany
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AD 1900
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New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands
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AD 1901
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Commonwealth of Australia comes into being: self-governing federation within the British empire
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AD 1905
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British New Guinea becomes the possession of Australia, and is named Papua
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AD 1906
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Australia assumes responsibility for the administration of British New Guinea, renaming it Papua
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AD 1906
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British/French Condominium of the New Hebrides created
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AD 1907
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Britain grants New Zealand dominion status
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AD 1913
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Wallis Islands become a French protectorate
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AD 1914
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New Zealand troops occupy German Samoa
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AD 1914
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Japan occupies Micronesia
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AD 1914
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Germans expelled from Admiralty Islands; Australia takes over administration
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AD 1915
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Britain annexes Gilbert and Ellice islands
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AD 1919
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Japan receives former German territories of Marshall, Mariana and Caroline islands
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AD 1920
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New Zealand given mandate over Samoa
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AD 1920
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League of Nations awards Bismarck Archipelago as mandate to Australia
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AD 1921
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Australia given mandate over German New Guinea
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AD 1929
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Uprising of Mau people of Samoa against New Zealand government
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AD 1941
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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AD 1941
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Japanese troops capture Guam
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AD 1942
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Battle of Midway: US defeats Japan
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AD 1942
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Japan occupies Solomon Islands during W WII; heavy fighting, especially on and around Guadalcanal
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AD 1942
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Japanese troops capture Admiralty Islands
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AD 1944
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Australia and New Zealand sign the ANZAC Agreement
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AD 1944
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US takes Marshall Islands and Guam
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AD 1944
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US retakes Admiralty Islands
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AD 1945
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Allies expel Japanese from Solomon Islands; British rule is restored
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AD 1945
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VJ Day: Japan surrenders, ending the war in the Pacific
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AD 1946
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US tests atomic weapons at Bikini atoll, Marshall Islands
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AD 1947
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New Zealand gains full independence from Britain
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AD 1947
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Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Palau and Nauru become part of the UN Strategic Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, administered by the US
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AD 1949
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Trust Territory of Papua and New Guinea given to Australia to administer
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