ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : American Samoa</title> <META name="description" content="Timeline of the History of American Samoa, from 1722 to today."> <META name="keywords" content="Eastern Samoa, Samoa, Tutuila, Pago Pago, American Samoa"> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2004 --> </head> <body bgcolor="grey" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> History of American Samoa <BR> Index Page </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xamsamoa.html.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xamsamoa.html"> <img src = "../banners/banamsamoa.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../histatlas/pacific/haxsamoa.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Historical Atlas <BR> Samoa </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on November 23rd 2004, last revised on November 24th 2004 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-0213752126925919"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : American Samoa </B></font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR> <div align = "left"> American Samoa is the smaller part of Samoa, with a land area of 194.8 square km; by comparison (Western) Samoa 2831 square km. In 1899 the U.S. chose the territory because it wanted to secure the port of Pago Pago on Tutuila and left the larger, more populated, but less accessible part to Germany. For many decades, American Samoa was a remote corner of the U.S. Empire, largely left alone. In World War II it became a base and training site for U.S. forces. The local economy, hitherto largely self-sufficient, became dependent on the military base, and later on Tourism. American Samoans began to emigrate to the continental United States and to Hawaii in search for employment; the population of American Samoa (1996) is given as 59.566, with another 65,000 living in the continental U.S. and 20,000 on Hawaii. <BR> Dependency on the United States has proven economically beneficiary to the American Samoans; so the demand for independence never gained popularity. </div><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1722 <BR> 1768 <BR> 1830 <BR> 1834 <BR> 1838 <BR> 1841 <BR> 1847 <BR> 1848-1873 <BR> 1851 <BR> 1857 <BR><BR> 1861 <BR> 1872 <BR> 1875 <BR> 1876 <BR> 1877 <BR> 1879 <BR> 1884 <BR> 1887 <BR> 1889 <BR> 1889 <BR> 1894 <BR> 1899 <BR> 1899 <BR><BR> 1900 <BR> 1904 <BR> 1925 <BR> 1929 <BR><BR> 1940 <BR> 1951 <BR><BR> 1960 <BR> 1967 <BR> 1978 <BR> 1979 <BR> </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> Islands sighted by Dutch navigator Jakob Roggeveen <BR> Islands visited by French navigator Louis Antoine de Bougainville <BR> Arrival of the first Protestant missionaris, from the London Missionary Society <BR> Missionaris established Samoan as language of writing <BR> Samoan treaty with the U.S. <BR> U.S. navy punitive expedition landed on Samoa <BR> Opening of a British consulate <BR> Civil war - Wars for supremacy <BR> Opening of a U.S. consulate <BR> J.C. Godeffroy and Son (of Hamburg) opened depot in Apia, which resulted in Samoa <BR> becoming the most popular trading post in the Pacific at that time <BR> Opening of a Hamburg consulate <BR> The U.S. established a naval station at Pago Pago, Tutuila <BR> Samoan constitution passed <BR> The British deported A.B. Steinberger, a U.S. citizen who hd seized power on Samoa <BR> Postage stamps privately issued <BR> Municipality of Apia founded - by the British <BR> German troops landed to restore law and order <BR> Samoan-Hawaiian treaty signed <BR> U.S. troops landed to protect U.S. citizens in Samoan civil war <BR> Treaty of Berlin; U.S., Britain and Germany recognized Samoan independence <BR> Author Robert Louis Stephenson died on Samoa <BR> U.S. forces landed to interfere in Samoan civil war <BR> Samoa partitioned; Germany received larger west, U.S. smaller east, Britain Niue <BR> and two Solomon islands hitherto German <BR> Deed of Cesson - local chiefs ceded Tutuila, Aunu'u <BR> A convention of chiefs ceded Manu'a island group to the U.S. <BR> Britain ceded swains island, hitherto contested by Britain and the U.S. <BR> U.S. Congress accepted the 1904 cession of the eastern Samoan islands by a <BR> convention of local chiefs <BR> American Samoa became training area for U.S. troops <BR> Administration of American Samoa transferred from Department of the Navy to <BR> Department of the Interior <BR> Constitution for American Samoa adopted <BR> Constitution for American Samoa revised <BR> Governor elected for the first time <BR> American Samoa began to attract tourists <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "3" cellspace="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "100" valign = "top" align = "center" bgcolor="#FFFACD"> <font size = "3" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> EXTERNAL <BR> FILES </font></TD> <TD width = "750" valign = "top" align = "left" bgcolor = "#FFFACD"> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> A Brief History, from <A HREF = "http://www.samoa.co.uk/history.html"><B>Samoan Sensation</B></A> <BR> History of Samoa, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Samoa"><B>Wikipedia</B></A>, from <A HREF = "http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/pacific/samoa/history.htm"><B>Lonely Planet</B></A> <BR> American Samoa, from <A HREF = "http://www.samoanet.com/amsamoa/"><B>Samoanet</B></A> <BR> History of American Samoa, from <A HREF = "http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/pacific/american_samoa/history.htm"><B> Lonely Planet</B></A> <R> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "1"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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