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  2. List of wars involving Tonga - Wikipedia

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    Civil war(15th century–1470) Tonga: Result of Civil conflict / status quo ante bellum. The Tongans were driven out of Wallis and Futuna. Tuʻi Tonga Kauʻulufonua I ceded temporal authority to his brother Moʻungāmotuʻa, replacing the Tuʻi Tonga dynasty with the Tu'i Ha'atakalaua dynasty. Unknown Civil war(17th century) Tonga

  3. History of Tonga - Wikipedia

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    In the 15th century and again in the 17th, civil war erupted. It was in this context that the first Europeans arrived, beginning with Dutch explorers Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire. Between April 21 to 23, 1616 they moored at the Northern Tongan islands "Cocos Island" and "Traitors Island" (Niuatoputapu), respectively. The kings of both of ...

  4. Tonga - Wikipedia

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    Civil wars are known to have occurred in Tonga in the 15th and 17th centuries. William Mariner was a teenaged English sailor adopted into a royal Tongan family. The Tongan people first encountered Europeans in 1616, when the Dutch vessel Eendracht , captained by Willem Schouten , made a short visit to the islands for the purpose of engaging in ...

  5. Timeline of Tongan history - Wikipedia

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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

  6. George Tupou I - Wikipedia

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    He dedicated Tonga (that is, Pouono in Vavaʻu) to God in 1839, assuring support from the missionaries. During the 1830s, he resided in Vavaʻu, in Veitatalo, which is now ʻUlukālala's residence. Vavaʻu was at peace and it prospered. Tongatapu, on the other hand, suffered from a cruel civil war with the local chiefs fighting each other.

  7. Military history of Tonga - Wikipedia

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    Tonga participated in World War I, as part of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. The Tonga Defence Service (TDS) came into existence at the beginning of World War II in 1939. In 1943, New Zealand helped train two Tongan contingents of two thousand personnel who fought in the Solomon Islands Campaign . [ 1 ]

  8. Aleamotuʻa - Wikipedia

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    In Tonga's pyramidal society, kings, chiefs, warriors and forceful personalities were respected and feared while those with peaceful and calm personalities had little influence. This helps explain the first peacemaking effort by any king during the civil war that broke out after the assassination of Tuku'aho, the 14th Tu'i Kanokupolu.

  9. Category:Wars involving Tonga - Wikipedia

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    War in Afghanistan (2001 ... Pages in category "Wars involving Tonga" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Wikipedia® is a registered ...