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Saturday, August 7, 2021

Basic timeline of Tuvalu

This post is a basic timeline of Tuvalu. There are 11 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Polynesian culture arrives (3,000 years ago)
• Tuvaluan culture (Pre-European era)
• Alvaro de Mendana de Neira reports seeing Tuvalu (1568)
• Funafuti island named Ellice's Island (1819)
• Britain and Germany claim Tuvalu (1876)
• British West Pacific Territories occupies Tuvalu (1892-1916)
• British Gilbert and Ellice Islands (1916-1974)
• Cyclone Bebe (1972)
• Tuvalu and Kiribati separate (1975)
• Tuvalu gains independence (1978)
• Cyclone Pam (2015)

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