ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA Timeline History of Western Samoa </title> <!-- 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 (Western) Samoa <BR> Index Page </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xwsamoa.html.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xwsamoa.html"> <img src = "../banners/banwsamoa.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 </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 : Western Samoa </B></font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <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> 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> 1908 <BR> 1914 <BR> 1916 <BR> 1919 <BR> 1920 <BR> 1926 <BR> 1929 <BR> 1942 <BR> 1946 <BR> 1947 <BR> 1948 <BR> 1961 <BR> 1962 <BR> 1962 <BR> 1967 <BR> 1970 <BR> 1976 <BR> 1991 <BR> 1997 <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> 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> Germany declared protectorate over Western Samoa <BR> Mau a Pule resistance movement founded <BR> Early in WW I, German Western Samoa was occupied by New Zealand forces <BR> Samoanische Zeitung (German language gazette) supressed <BR> Influenza killed many Samoans <BR> League of Nations granted Westrn Samoa as mandate to New Zealand <BR> Union Islands administratively placed under Western Samoa <BR> Mau a Pule resistance reached climax <BR> U.S. troops stationed on Western Samoa <BR> U.N. granted Trusteeship over Western Samoa to New Zealand <BR> Assembly, Council of State created <BR> Tokelau Islands (previously Union Islands) separated from Western Samoa <BR> Plebiscite opted for independence <BR> Western Samoa released into independence <BR> New Zealand Pound replaced by Western Samoan Pound <BR> Western Samoan Pound renamed Ta'la <BR> Samoa joined British Commonwealth <BR> Samoa joined the U.N. <BR> Universal suffrage introduced <BR> Country officially adopted name "Samoa" <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> A Global History of Currencies : <A HREF = "http://www.globalfindata.com/frameset.php3?location=/gh/288.html"><B>Samoa</B></A>, by Bryan Taylor <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) != "/") ? 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