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Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900-1965 (ISBN 1-86940-205-7) Latukefu, S. (1974), Church and State in Tonga, ANU Press, Canberra; Campbell, Ian C; Island Kingdom: Tonga Ancient and Modern, 2001, ISBN 0-908812-96-5 "Brief history of the Kingdom of Tonga", on the website of the Tongan Parliament
Tuʻi Tonga, rulers of Tonga from c. 950 to 9th December, 1865, when the last Tu'i Tonga, HM Sanualio Fatafehi Laufilitonga, died. Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua, rulers of Tonga from c. 1470 to c. 1800. Tuʻi Kanokupolu, rulers of Tonga from c. 1500 to the present day. George Tupou I, the first constitutional monarch of Tonga, was the 19th Tuʻi Kanokupolu.
The history of Tonga is recorded since the ninth century BC, when seafarers associated with the Lapita diaspora first settled the islands which now make up the Kingdom of Tonga. [1] Along with Fiji and Samoa, the area served as a gateway into the rest of the Pacific region known as Polynesia . [ 2 ]
This page lists the individual Tonga year pages. It only references years after 1970, when the country gained independence from the United Kingdom . Twenty-first century
Tonga is a sovereign island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. [1] Tonga comprises the Tonga Archipelago of 169 islands, 36 of them inhabited, stretching over a distance of about 800 kilometres (500 mi) in a north–south line.
[2] [3] While never directly ruled by the British, its foreign affairs of the Kingdom of Tonga were conducted through the British Consul that gave the United Kingdom veto power over foreign policies and finances of the Kingdom of Tonga. [1] Tonga was affected by the 1918 flu pandemic, with 1,800 Tongans killed, around eight per cent of the ...
Timeline of Tongan history; Events in the year 2025 in Tonga. Incumbents. Monarch: Tupou VI; Prime Minister: Samiu Vaipulu (acting) Events.
The history of Tonga stretches back to around roughly 1000 AD, [12] when the Polynesians arrived. Tonga became known as the Tongan Empire through extensive trading and its influence and show of strength and domination over parts of the Pacific (e.g. Samoa, Fiji). The Europeans arrived in the 17th century which was followed after a couple ...