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Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Basic timeline of Vanuatu

This post is a basic timeline of Vanuatu. There are 10 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Austronesian culture arrives (3,300 years ago)
• Pedro Fernandes de Queiros and Spain arrive (1606)
• Louis Antoine de Bougainville and France arrive (1768)
• Captain Cook and Britain arrive (1774)
• Anglo-French Joint Naval Commission (1887-1889, 1890-1906)
• Franceville, New Hebrides (1889-1890)
• British-French New Hebrides (1906-1980)
• Coconut War (1980)
• Vanuatu gains independence (1980)
• Attempted coup d'état (1996)

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