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Saturday, August 7, 2021

Basic timeline of Palau

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

• First colonization of Palau (2,000 years ago)
• Palauan culture (Pre-European era)
• Ferdinand Magellan reports seeing Palau (1522)
• Spanish East Indies annexes Palau (1885)
• German New Guinea annexes Palau (1899)
• Japan annexes Palau (1919)
• Battle of Peleliu (1944)
• United States annexes Palau (1944)
• Palau gains independence (1994)

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