ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : East Timor </title> <META name="keywords" keyword="History of East Timor, Portuguese Timor, Timor Leste"> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2004-2007 --> </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 East Timor <BR> Index Page </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xetimor.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xetimor.html"> <img src = "../banners/banetimor.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 26th 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-5834279270464755"; 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"; //2007-02-17: MIT_ Ganse google_ad_channel = "0420158018"; 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> </div> <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 : East Timor </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"> 1509 <BR> 1512 <BR> 1556 <BR> 1646 <BR> 1653 <BR> 1660/1670 <BR> 1668 <BR> 1702 <BR> 1719 <BR> 1769 <BR> 1834 <BR> 1844 <BR> 1859 <BR> 1884 <BR> 1894 <BR> 1895-1912 <BR> 1896 <BR> 1904 <BR> 1914 <BR> 1935 <BR> 1940 <BR> 1941 <BR> 1942-1945 <BR> 1942-1943 <BR> 1951 <BR> 1959 <BR> 1959 <BR> 1960 <BR><BR> 1974 <BR> 1975 <BR> 1975 <BR> 1975 <BR> 1975 <BR> 1975-1999 <BR><BR> 1976 <BR> 1976 <BR> 1979-1982 <BR> 1983 <BR> 1989 <BR> 1989 <BR> 1991 <BR> 1992 <BR> 1993-1994 <BR><BR> 1996 <BR> 1996 <BR> 1999 <BR> 1999 <BR><BR><BR> 1999 <BR> 2002 <BR> 2002 <BR> 2003 <BR> </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> Arrival of the first Portuguese visitors <BR> Timor first shown on a European map <BR> Portuguese Dominicans established first Portuguese settlement <BR> The Portuguese established fortification at Kupang (W. Timor) <BR> The V.O.C. conquered Kupang <BR> The Portuguese settled at Lifau <BR> The Portuguese founded Dili <BR> First Portuguese governor appointed <BR> Armed rebellion against Portuguese rule <BR> The Portuguese abandoned the old capital Lifau <BR> Dominicans expelled from East Timor <BR> Portuguese possessions on Timor administratively placed under Macau <BR> Dutch-Portuguese treaty delimiting mutual spheres of interest <BR> First postage stamps issued for Portuguese Timor <BR> Portuguese currency replaced by Timorese Pataca, equal to the Macau Pataca <BR> Revolt led by Dom Boaventura <BR> Portuguese Timor administratively separated from Macau, established as a separate colony <BR> Dutrch-Portuguese treaty of 1859 ratified <BR> Dutch-Portuguese border agreement <BR> Portuguese Timor had a population of 460,555 <BR> Establishment of (Catholic) Diocesis of Dili, separated from Macau <BR> Dutch, Australian troops landed in East Timor <BR> Australian forces fought guerilla campaign on East Timor against Japanese <BR> Japanese occupation <BR> Portuguese Timor proclaimed an Overseas Territory <BR> Revolt, suppressed <BR> Timorese Escudo, on par with Portuguese Escudo, introduced <BR> The U.N. General Assembly rejected the Portuguese claim to retain East Timor as an <BR> "overseas province" and declared East Timor a Non-Self-Governing Territory. <BR> Following the revolution in Portugal, political parties were formed in East Timor <BR> Coup by the UDT, brief civil war won by Fretilin <BR> Fretilin Govt. declared independence <BR> Flag adopted <BR> Indonesian invasion, occupation <BR> Armed struggle of Fretilin against Indonesian occupation; in 1979 Indonesian forces <BR> had come close to victory. <BR> East Timor proclaimed Indonesia's 27th province <BR> U.N. called for the withdrawal of Indonesian forces from East Timor <BR> Peak of East Timorese starvation <BR> Indonesian forces, Fretilin negotiated ceasefire; Pres. Suharto rejected it <BR> Indonesian troops fired upon East Timorese protesters <BR> Pope John Paul II. visited East Timor; riots in Dili <BR> East Timor was opened to foreign visitors; Indonesian immigration <BR> Fretilin leader Xanana Gusmao captured by Indonesian forces <BR> East Timorese entered/occupied foreign embassies to focus world attention on the <BR> plight of East Timor <BR> Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos Horta <BR> (Catholic) Diocesis of Baucau established, detached from Diocesis of Dili <BR> Referendum on East Timorese autonomy/independence held <BR> Indonesian militias forced a large segment of East Timorese to move "voluntarily" <BR> into refugee camps located on West Timor; an Australian-led U.N. force landed in <BR> East Timor <BR> In a declaration to the U.N., Indonesia renounced her claim to East Timor <BR> Presidential elections held, independence proclaimed <BR> 1975 Flag readopted <BR> East Timorese currency, centavo, introduced <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </div><div align = "center"> <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 = "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"> East Timor : History, from <A HREF = "http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/south_east_asia/east_timor/history.htm"><B>Lonely Planet</B></A> <BR> History of East Timor, from <A HREF = "http://www.solidamor.org/english/content/history/koloni.htm"><B>Solidamor</B></A> <BR> Timeline Timor Leste, from <A HREF = "http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/www/en/laenderinfos/laender/laender_ausgabe_html?type_id=9&land_id=197"> <B>German Ministry of Foreign Affairs</B></A> <BR> The World's Newest Democracy, from <A HREF = "http://www.gov.east-timor.org/newframe.html"><B>Government Timor Leste</B></A> <BR> East Timor flag history, from <A HREF = "http://flagspot.net/flags/tl_hist.html"><B>FOTW</B></A> <BR> East Timor History, from <A HREF = "http://www.gla.ac.uk/~clubs/easttimor/History1.html"><B>Glasgow University East Timor and Indonesia Group</B></A> <BR> EU's relations with East Timor, from <A HREF = "http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/east_timor/history.htm"><B>European Union. External Relations</B></A> <BR> <A HREF = "http://www.sjc.uq.edu.au/projects/East%20Timor%20project/violence/history.html"><B>East Timor Violence - a Chronology</B></A>, posted by Imogen Trump and Cristen Tilley, very detailed, illustrated <BR> Global History of Currencies : <A HREF = "http://www.globalfindata.com/frameset.php3?location=/gh/336.html"><B>Timor Leste</B></A>, postd by Brian Taylor <BR> Chronology of Catholic Dioceses : East Timor, from <A HREF = "http://www.katolsk.no/utenriks/kronologi/east_timor.htm"><B>Kirken i Norge</B></A> Timeline, from <A HREF = "http://www.gimonca.com/sejarah/sejarah05.shtml"><B>Serajah Indonesia</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> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman"> Click here to go <A HREF = "../../index.html">Home</A> <BR> Click here to go to <A HREF = "../../about.html">Information about KMLA, WHKMLA, the author and webmaster</A> <BR> Click here to go to <A HREF = "../..links.html">Statistics</A><BR> </font> <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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