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Friday, August 6, 2021

Basic timeline of Marshall Islands

This post is a basic timeline of the Marshall Islands. There are 9 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Micronesian culture (2nd millennium BC)
• Alonso de Salazar and Spain arrive (1526)
• Spain claims part of Marshall Islands (1874)
• German New Guinea (1884-1914)
• Japanese South Sea Mandate (1914-1947)
• Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign (1943-1944)
• United States nuclear bomb tests (1946-1958)
• United States annexes Marshall Islands (1947)
• Marshall Islands gains independence (1979)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of the Marshall Islands at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of the Marshall Islands.)