history

By Ryandrummond
  • 2550 BCE

    pyramids

    the pyramids were built as tombs for the pharaohs, the pyramid of Giza was built by Pharaoh Khufu, They were built as early as 4,500 years ago
  • 1874 BCE

    fiji

    Fiji has only had people on it for 3500 years. Fiji was first settled by Melanesian people.
  • 1842 BCE

    tahiti

    Tahiti has a long and rich history. The islands were first settled by migrating Polynesians as early as 500BC.
  • 1773 BCE

    cook island

    The Cook Islands were first settled around AD 1000 by Polynesian people who are thought to have migrated from Tahiti an island 1,154 kilometers.
  • 1487 BCE

    Samoa

    European explorers first reached the Samoan islands in the early 18th century. In 1768 Louis Antoine de Bougainville named them the Navigator Islands.
  • 1100 BCE

    Tonga

    The first Polynesian settlers sailed to Tonga between 2,830 and 2,846 years ago.
  • 124 BCE

    Hawaii

    First settlers to claim Hawaii was sometime between 124 and 1120 AD when the islands were first settled by Polynesians. Hawaiian civilization was isolated from the rest of the world for at least 500 years.
  • 1000

    Leif Erikson

    Leif Erikson, Leiv Eriksson or Leif Ericson 970 – 1020 was a Norse explorer from Iceland. He is thought to have been the first known European to have set foot on continental North America excluding Greenland, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.
  • 1347

    black plague

    The black plague was a bubonic plague that originated in 1347 and lasted till 1353

  • New Zealand

    The first European to arrive in New Zealand was the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642.