ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : Papua New Guinea </title> <META name="keywords" content="Papua Niugini, German New Guinea, Papua"> <!-- 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 = "150" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xpng.html"> <img src = "../banners/banpng.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "100" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on November 20th 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 : Papua Niugini </B></font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <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"> c. 60,000 B.C. <BR> 1526 <BR><BR> 1546 <BR> 1606 <BR> 1873 <BR> 1884 <BR><BR> 1886 <BR><BR> 1888 <BR> 1899 <BR><BR><BR> 1900 <BR><BR> 1906 <BR><BR> 1914 <BR> 1920 <BR><BR> 1942-1945 <BR> 1949 <BR><BR> 1951 <BR> 1961 <BR> 1963-1985 <BR><BR> 1964 <BR> 1971 <BR> 1973 <BR> 1975 <BR> 1975 <BR> 1975 <BR><BR> 1989 <BR><BR> 1997, 1998 <BR> 1998 <BR> 2000 <BR> </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> New Guinea settled by Melanesians <BR> Portuguese Jorge de Meneses first European to visit the island, called it "Ilha dos <BR> Papuas" <BR> Spanish navigator Inigo Ortiz de Retes named main island Nueva Guinea <BR> Spanish navigator Torres sailed through Torres Strait <BR> Port Moresby founded; area surrounding it claimed for Britain <BR> SE of island claimed by Britain, NE and Bismarck Archipelago by Germany; German <BR> section administered by the German New Guinea Company (until 1899) <BR> British and Germans agreed on partitioning the Solomon Islands; Bougainvlle, Buka, <BR> Isabel and Choiseul allocated to Germany <BR> British New Guinea formally annexed <BR> Administration of German New Guinea taken over by German Government (Colonial <BR> Office); Carolinas, Marshall Islands, Marianas administered as an annex to German <BR> New Guinea <BR> Germany and the U.S. partitioned Samoa; Germany ceded to Britain Choiseul and <BR> Isabel (Solomon Islands) <BR> Administration of British New Guinea transferred to Commonwealth of Australia, <BR> renamed Territory of Papua <BR> World War I; Australian forces occupied Grman New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago <BR> League of Nations transferred mandate over German New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago <BR> to Australia <BR> Japanese forces occupied most of Papua New Guinea, all of Bismarck Archipelago <BR> Papua and (formerly German, NE) New Guinea with Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon <BR> Island of Bougainville merged to form Papua and New Guinea <BR> Legislative Council established <BR> Indigenous population for the first time allowed to participate in election <BR> Following Indonesian occupation of Netherlands' New Guinea, Western Papua resistance <BR> fighters fought Indonesian forces; refugees entered Papua New Guinea <BR> Legislative Council replaced by House of Assembly; first indigenous representatives elected <BR> Country renamed Papua New Guinea <BR> PNG granted self-government <BR> New currency introduced; Kina replaced Australian Dollar <BR> Country released into independence <BR> Bougainville, island belonging to the group of Solomon Islands, but not to the state by that <BR> name, opted to secede; decision neither recognized by central govt., nor internationally <BR> Begin of armd struggle of Bougainville separatists; they unilaterally declared "Republic of <BR> Bougainvlle" <BR> Truce signed on Bougainville <BR> Highland region suffered from severe famine <BR> Duke of York Atoll evacuated; sea water level rose, blamed on global warming <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 = "600" valign = "top" align = "left" bgcolor = "#FFFACD"> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> Timeline, from <A HREF = "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/3028825.stm"><B>BBC News</B></A> <BR> History of Papua New Guinea, from <A HREF = "http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/australasia/papua_new_guinea/history.htm"><B> Lonely Planet</B></A> <BR> Article History of Papua New Guinea, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Papua_New_Guinea"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> </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"; 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