Samoan Tatau

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  • 1000 BCE

    Samoa is settled

  • 200

    Local Pottery manufacturing ceased

  • European Navigators Began to Visit

  • John Williams, a member of the London Missionary Society, arrived to establish a Christian mission in

  • The United States signed a treaty.

    This allowed them to establish a naval station in Pago Pago Harbour

  • Troops from New Zealand Occupied Western Samoa

  • Period: to

    the New Zealand administration was accused of negligence

    This was after more than one-fifth of Western Samoans died during the influenza epidemic

  • The League of Nations nevertheless granted New Zealand a mandate over Western

  • Western Samoa Regained it's Political Independence

    And became the first Pacific nation of its size to do this

  • The Monarch Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II Became the Cohead of State

  • The Samoan Archipelago was Shaken by an Undersea Earthquake

    It was a magnitude 8.3