ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : Tokelau </title> <META name="keywords" content="Fiji"> <!-- 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 Tokelau <BR> Index Page </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xtokelau.html.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xtokelau.html"> <img src = "../banners/bantokelau.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 = "200" 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 23rd 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 : Tokelau </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"> 1765 <BR> 1791 <BR> 1835 <BR> 1841 <BR> 1858 <BR> 1863 <BR> 1889 <BR> 1916 <BR> 1925 <BR> 1926 <BR> 1946 <BR> 1948 <BR> 1976 <BR> 1991 <BR> 1996 <BR> </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> British navigator John Byron visited Atafu, named it Duke of York Island <BR> British navigator Edwards visited Nukunono, named it Duke of Clarence Island <BR> American whaler General Jackson visited islands <BR> United States Exploring Expedition visited Island group <BR> Arrival of protestant misionaries from London Missionary Society <BR> Part of the population abducted by Peruvian slave raiders <BR> British protectorate over Union Group (= Tokelau) declared <BR> Union Group annexed into Gilbert and Ellice Islands <BR> Union Group placed under New Zealand administration <BR> Union Group placed under administration of Western Samoa <BR> Union Group renamd Tokelau Islands <BR> Tokelau Islands separated from Western Samoa, declared integral part of New Zealand <BR> Tokelau Islands contracted to Tokelau <BR> Population on Tokelau 1,577; in NZ 2,802 <BR> Tokelau granted self-government <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"> History of Tokelau, from <A HREF = "http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/pacific/tokelau/history.htm"><B>Lonely Planet</B></A>, from <A HREF = "http://www.pacificislandtravel.com/samoa/about_destin/tokelau_history.asp"><B>Pacific Islands Travel</B></A> <BR> A Short History of Tokelau, from <A HREF = "http://www.electionworld.org/history/tokelau.htm"><B>Election World</B></A> <BR> Article Tokelau, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokelau"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> </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) != "/") ? "/" + file : file; referer = (document.referrer) ? document.referrer : ""; document.write("<script type=\"text/javascript\" "); document.write("src=\"" + path_to_counterfile + "?chCounter_mode=js&status=" + cstatus + "&visible=" + visible); document.write("&seite=" + file + "&referer=" + referer + "&res_width=" + screen.width + "&res_height=" + screen.height + "\"></" + "script>"); //--> </script> <!-- End of CH Counter --> <BR> </div> </body></html>