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40,000 BCE
Aborigines arrive in Australia
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30,000 BCE
Polynesians reach the end of Solomon Islands
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8000 BCE
Land bridge between Australia and Tasmania is flooded
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1000 BCE
The Lapita people spread across Polynesia
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300
Polynesians settle the Marquesas and Hawaiian Islands
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700
Polynesians settle Easter Island
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800
Charlemagne is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
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1000
Almost all Polynesian islands are settled
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1000
Polynesians arrive in New Zealand (the arrival of the Great fleet)
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1130
a small group of Polynesian people, perhaps even a single family, sailed from the Cook islands to the coast of New Zealand
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The moa bird becomes extinct, forcing the Maori to alter their lifestyle
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Abel Tasman arrives at Aotearoa (New Zealand)
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Captain James Cook arrives in New Zealand
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The voyage of the Hokule’a recreates the 10 000 km sea voyage between Hawaii and Tahiti