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By Skywalker25
  • 1500 BCE

    New Guinea had to develope a large canoe that could travel long distances

  • 1 CE

    40000 years ago, the earth was undergoing the ice age

  • Dec 24, 950

    950-1150, the Maori people left Polynesia

  • Britain's captain James Cook explores Pacific region

  • Australia becomes a convict colony

  • 1788-1668 about 160000 convicts were taken to Australia to serve their sentences

  • British and Maori sign Treaty of Waitangi

  • European population had passed 1 million

  • New Zealand gives women the right to vote

  • the British colonies of Australia and New Zealand became independent countries

  • Oceania was still under control by foreign

  • New Zealand gained independence in 1907

  • 1941-1945, allies fight Japan in the Pacific region during WW2

  • Japan attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor

  • Countries agree to share Antarctica for scientific research