Timeline - All the dates

Timeline

All the dates

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- 3000 BC

The presence of plants, pigs and dogs lends weight to the theory that the initial settling of the South Pacific originated from Southeast Asia.

- 2000 BC

Archeological, ethno-linguistic and other research puts the start of Polynesian settlement around this time

- 1300 BC

Lapita pottery reveals settlement in Western Polynesia in Tonga and Somoa

- 700-1100

All the main islands have been settled: Tonga, Samoa, Line Islands, the Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Easter Island, Hawaii & New Zealand

- 1760-1800

Missionaries - End of Lapita pottery

- 1815

Polynesian chiefs lose the battle of Fe'i Pi under Pomare II and are converted to Christianity.

- 1819

Pomare II creates a Legal Code based on Christian principles The Pomare Code

- 1836

English Protestants obtain the expulsion of French Catholic missionaries from Tahiti

- 1842

Dupetit Thouars submits the Treaty of French Protectorate signed by the Chiefs of Tahiti to Louis-Philippe, King of France

- 1844-1847

Franco-Tahitian war

- 1847

Queen Pomare IV, hitherto a rebel, submits to be governed under the Protectorate.

- 1880

King Pomare V approves the annexation of Tahiti and Dependencies to France

- 1958

The French "Establishments of Oceania" become French Polynesia

- 1960

Tahiti International Airport opens

- 1984

Statute of Internal Autonomy

- 2004

French Polynesia becomes a French "Overseas Country"