Timeline of sovereign states in Oceania

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This timeline lists all sovereign states and dependencies in Oceania, both current and defunct, from the year 1750 onwards.

## Contents

* 1 Timeline
* 1.1 Notes
* 2 See also
* 3 References

## Timeline

Current Sovereign States / Decades  | before  | 1750  | 1760  | 1770  | 1780  | 1790  | 1800  | 1810  | 1820  | 1830  | 1840  | 1850  | 1860  | 1870  | 1880  | 1890  | 1900  | 1910  | 1920  | 1930  | 1940  | 1950  | 1960  | 1970  | 1980  | 1990  | 2000  | 2010  | 2020

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Australia

New South Wales  | Australian Aboriginal nations  | 1788  Colony of New South Wales (25px|border UK)[1] | 1901  New South Wales ( Australia )[2]

Queensland  | Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations  | 1823  Colony of New South Wales (25px|border UK)[1] | 1859  Colony of Queensland (25px|border UK)[1] | 1901  Queensland ( Australia )[2]

South Australia  | Australian Aboriginal nations  | 1834  Colony of South Australia (25px|border UK)[1] | 1901  South Australia ( Australia )[2]

Tasmania  | Aboriginal Tasmanian nations  | 1803  Colony of New South Wales (25px|border UK)[1] | 1825  Colony of Tasmania (25px|border UK)[1] | 1901  Tasmania ( Australia )[2]

Victoria  | Aboriginal Australian nations  | 1803  Colony of New South Wales (25px|border UK)[1] | 1851  Colony of Victoria (25px|border UK)[1] | 1901  Victoria ( Australia )[2]

Western Australia  | Aboriginal Australian nations  | 1829  Colony of Western Australia (25px|border UK)[1] | 1901  Western Australia ( Australia )[2]

Chile |
Easter Island  | Rapa Nui  | 1888  Easter Island ( Chile )[3]

Fiji  | Fijians  | 1871  Kingdom of Fiji[4] | 1874  Colony of Fiji (25px|border UK)[5] | 1970  Fiji[5]

France

New Caledonia | Kanak  | 1853 /25px|border New Caledonia ( France )[6]

French Polynesia  | Polynesians  | 1788  Kingdom of Tahiti[7] | 1842  Kingdom of Tahiti (25px|border France[notes 1])[8] | 1880  French Polynesia ( France )[8]

Indonesia

Maluku  |  Dutch East India Company rule (25px|border Dutch Empire)[9] | 1800 25px|border Dutch East Indies (25px|border Netherlands)[10] | 1949  Maluku ( Indonesia)[11] | 1999  Maluku ( Indonesia)

North Maluku  | 1999  North Maluku ( Indonesia)[12]

Papua  | Papuans  | 1949  Dutch New Guinea ( Netherlands)[13] | 1963  Irian Jaya ( Indonesia)  | 2003  Papua ( Indonesia)

West Papua  | 2003  West Papua ( Indonesia)[14]

Kiribati  | Micronesian | 1892  Gilbert and Ellice Islands (25px|border UK)[15] | 1979  Kiribati[15]

Marshall Islands  |  Spanish East Indies (25px|border Spain)[16] | 1885  German New Guinea (25px|border Germany)  | 1919  South Pacific Mandate (25px|border Japan)  | 1947  Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( United States )  | 1986  Marshall Islands

Micronesia  |  Spanish East Indies (25px|border Spain)[16] | 1899  German New Guinea (25px|border Germany)  | 1919  South Pacific Mandate (25px|border Japan)  | 1947  Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( United States )  | 1986  Micronesia[17]

Nauru  | Nauruans  | 1888  German New Guinea (25px|border Germany)  | 1923  Mandate of Nauru (25px|border Australia , 25px|border New Zealand,  United Kingdom )  | 1947  Trust Territory of Nauru ( Australia )[notes 2][18] | 1968  Nauru[19]

Realm of New Zealand  |
New Zealand | Maori  | 1840  Colony of New Zealand (25px|border British Empire)  | 1907  New Zealand[20]

Tokelau  | Tokelauan  | 25px|border 1877 Union Islands (25px|border UK)  | 1916  GEIC (25px|border UK)  | 1926  Tokelau (25px|border New Zealand)

Cook Islands  | Cook Islands Maori  | 1858  Kingdom of Rarotonga | 1888  Kingdom of Rarotonga (25px|border UK)  | 1893  Cook Islands Federation (25px|border UK)  | 1901  Cook Islands (25px|border New Zealand)[21] | 1965  Cook Islands[notes 3]

Niue  | Polynesians  | 1901  Savage Island (25px|border New Zealand)  | 1974  Niue[notes 4]

Palau  |  Spanish East Indies (25px|border Spain)[16] | 1899  German New Guinea (25px|border Germany)  | 1919  South Pacific Mandate (25px|border Japan)  | 1947  Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( United States )  | 1994  Palau[18]

Papua New Guinea  | Papuans  | 1884  German New Guinea (25px|border Germany)  | 1919  Territory of New Guinea ( Australia )  | 1949  Territory of Papua and New Guinea ( Australia )  | 1975  Papua New Guinea[18]
1884  Territory of Papua (25px|border UK)  | 1902  Territory of Papua ( Australia )

Samoa  | Pre-colonial Samoa  | 1900  German Samoa (25px|border Germany)  | 1920  Western Samoa Trust Territory (25px|border New Zealand)[18] | 1962  Samoa

Solomon Islands  | Melanesians  | 1885  German New Guinea (25px|border Germany)  | 1900  British Solomon Islands (25px|border UK)  | 1978  Solomon Islands

Tonga  |  Tu'i Tonga Empire  | 1865  Kingdom of Tonga  | 1900  Kingdom of Tonga (25px|border UK[notes 5])  | 1970  Tonga

Tuvalu  | Polynesian  | 1892  Gilbert and Ellice Islands (25px|border UK)[15] | 1978  Tuvalu[22]

United States

American Samoa  | Pre-colonial Samoa  | 1900  American Samoa ( United States )

Guam  |  Spanish East Indies (25px|border Spain)[16] | 1898  Guam ( United States )[23]

Hawaii  | Ancient Hawaii  | 1810  Kingdom of Hawaii[24] | 1894  Republic of Hawaii  |  1898 Territory of Hawaii ( United States )[25] | 1959  Hawaii ( United States )[25]

Northern Mariana Islands  |  Spanish East Indies (25px|border Spanish Empire)[16] | 1899  German New Guinea (25px|border Germany)  | 1919  South Pacific Mandate (25px|border Japan)  | 1947  Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( United States )  |  1986 Northern Mariana Islands ( United States )

Wake Island  |  | 1899  Wake Island ( United States )

Vanuatu  | Melanesian  | 1887  Anglo-French Joint Naval Commission (25px|border France/25px|border UK)  | 1906  New Hebrides (25px|border France/25px|border UK)[26] | 1980  Vanuatu
Current Sovereign States / Decades  | before  | 1750  | 1760  | 1770  | 1780  | 1790  | 1800  | 1810  | 1820  | 1830  | 1840  | 1850  | 1860  | 1870  | 1880  | 1890  | 1900  | 1910  | 1920  | 1930  | 1940  | 1950  | 1960  | 1970  | 1980  | 1990  | 2000  | 2010  | 2020
Empires/Colonialists/Trustees

| Australia
| British Empire/United Kingdom
| French Colonial Empire/France
| German Empire/Germany
| Empire of Japan/Japan
| Dutch Empire/Netherlands
| New Zealand
| Spanish Empire/Spain
| United States of America

### Notes

1. ↑ The Kingdom of Tahiti became a French protectorate during this period, with France formally annexing French Polynesia in 1880.
2. ↑ Officially, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom were co-trustees, but in practice Australia administered the territory.
3. ↑ The Cook Islands became a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand in 1965. New Zealand is responsible for defense and most of the Cook Islands' foreign relations, and both countries share a Head of State.
4. ↑ Niue became a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand in 1974. New Zealand is responsible for defense and most of Niue's foreign relations, and both countries share a Head of State.
5. ↑ The Kingdom of Tonga was a British protectorate during this period, and never relinquished independence. Thus, the Kingdom formed in 1865 is the same as today, with no breaks.

## See also

* List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Oceania
* List of sovereign states by date of formation
* List of predecessors of sovereign states in Oceania
* Timeline of sovereign states in Europe
* Timeline of sovereign states in North America
* Timeline of sovereign states in South America

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 "Convicts and the British colonies in Australia". australia.gov.au. http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/convicts-and-the-british-colonies/. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Federation". australia.gov.au. http://www.australia.gov.au/about-government/how-government-works/federation. Retrieved 19 June 2016. "Australia became an independent nation on 1 January 1901 when the British Parliament passed legislation allowing the six Australian colonies to govern in their own right as part of the Commonwealth of Australia."
3. ↑ "Easter Island Timeline". worldatlas.com. http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/samerica/easterisland/eastertimeln.htm. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
4. ↑ "Fiji's Chiefs and Rulers 1700s to date". FijiBure.com. http://www.fijibure.com/rulers.htm. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "About Fiji". http://www.fijihighcommission.org.uk/about_1.html. Retrieved 19 June 2016. "After Fiji was ceded to Great Britain in 1874, epidemics nearly wiped out the population and it seemed as if the natives were doomed. But the colonial government took the Fijians side. Land sales were forbidden, health campaigns implemented and the population picked up again. Theirs was not, of course, the culture of the heathen ‘golden age’, but one modified by the new religion and increasingly the new economic order. Yet in today’s Fiji, independent since 1970, a surprising amount has survived."
6. ↑ "History". Tourism New Caledonia. http://en.visitnewcaledonia.com/discover/history. Retrieved 19 June 2016. "On the orders of Napoleon III, and carried out by Counter-Admiral Febvrier Despointes, New Caledonia became a French colony on September 24, 1853."
7. ↑ Muscato, Christopher. "History of Tahiti". Study.com. http://study.com/academy/lesson/history-of-tahiti.html. Retrieved 22 June 2016. "The Kingdom of Tahiti would last almost a century, from roughly 1788 to 1880."
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 West, Francis James (2016). "French Polynesia - History". Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.. http://www.britannica.com/place/French-Polynesia/History. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
9. ↑ "The Dutch East India Company (VOC): Indonesian Chapter". Tiket2. http://www.indoneo.com/blogs/indonesia/45147713-the-dutch-east-india-company-voc-indonesian-chapter. Retrieved 22 June 2016. "By 1699, VOC lands claimed stretched from Sumatra and Ternate to Maluku and beyond."
10. ↑ "Colonial Period of Indonesia". Van der Schaar Investments B.V.. http://www.indonesia-investments.com/culture/politics/colonial-history/item178. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
11. ↑ "History of Indonesia". http://www.lonelyplanet.com/indonesia/history#150739. Retrieved 22 June 2016. "On 27 December 1949 the Indonesian flag was raised at Jakarta’s Istana Merdeka (Freedom Palace) as power was officially handed over."
12. ↑ Alhadar, Smith (July 2000). "The forgotten war in North Maluku". Indonesian Resources and Information Program (IRIP). http://www.insideindonesia.org/the-forgotten-war-in-north-maluku. Retrieved 22 June 2016. "Just as the administrative wheels began to turn in mid-1999 to split off North Maluku as a province of its own, the conflict began to escalate."
13. ↑ Sebastian, Leonard C.; Syailendra, Emirza Adi (12 June 2015). "Can Jokowi Bring Peace to West Papua?". James Pach. https://thediplomat.com/2015/06/jokowis-challenges-in-negotiating-peace-in-papua/. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
14. ↑ Resosudarmo, Budy P.; Mollet, Julius Ary; Kaiwai, Hans; Raya, Umbu Reku. "Development in Papua after Special Autonomy". The Australian National University. https://crawford.anu.edu.au/acde/ip/pdf/update/2013/Indo.Update.13.II21.ResosudarmoMollet.pdf. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Luscombe, Stephen. "Gilbert Islands". http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/gilbertandellice.htm. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 "Spanish East Indies, 1565-1898". 10 December 2011. http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/seasia/xphilspan.html. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
17. ↑ "FSM History". http://www.fsmgov.org/info/hist.html. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 "Trust Territories that have achieved self-determination". United Nations. https://www.un.org/en/decolonization/selfdet.shtml. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
19. ↑ Phillips, Keri (11 March 2014). "How Nauru threw it all away". ABC. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/how-nauru-threw-it-all-away/5312714. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
20. ↑ "Dominion status". New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/dominion-day/nz-in-1907. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
21. ↑ "History of the Cook Islands". http://www.ck/history.htm. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
22. ↑ "Tuvalu : History". http://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries/tuvalu/history. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
23. ↑ "Culture of Guam". Advameg, Inc.. http://www.everyculture.com/Ge-It/Guam.html. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
24. ↑ "Political History". http://www.hawaiiankingdom.org/political-history.shtml. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 "Hawaii". HISTORY.com. http://www.history.com/topics/us-states/hawaii. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
26. ↑ "Vanuatu : History". http://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries/vanuatu/history. Retrieved 22 June 2016.

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