before 1850 History of the Pacific Islands 1893-1918




The Solomon Islands 1850-1893



Anglican missionaries arrived in the 1850es; they established permanent mission stations in the 1870es.
In 1884 Germany established a colony in the Bismarck Archipelago and northeastern New Guinea; they also claimed a part of the Solomon Islands and Britain and Germany agreed to respect their mutual spheres of interest, Germany receiving the northern 4 islands (Bougainville, Buka, Isabel and Choiseul.
In 1893 Britain formally established a protectorate over the southern Solomon Islands (New Georgia, Guadalcanal, Malaita, San Cristobal).



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FILES 		History of the Solomon Islands, from Infoplease
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First posted on January 13th 2002, last revised on November 5th 2004

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