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Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Basic timeline of Samoa

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

• Austronesia culture arrives (4th millennium BC)
• Samoan culture (Pre-European era)
• European navigators arrive (18th century)
• Samoan Civil War (1886-1894)
• Second Samoan Civil War (1898-1899)
• German Samoa (1900-1919)
• United States annexes Tutuila and Manu'a (1900)
• Spanish Flu infects Samoa (1918)
• New Zealand Western Samoa Trust Territory (1914-1962)
• Samoa gains independence (1962)

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