Insular Chile Genealogy: Difference between revisions

[[Image:Easter Island Moai.jpg|thumb|right|Easter Island's giant Moai figures are world famous.]] [[Image:Pacific Map.png|thumb|right|Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is at the far east corner of the Polynesian island triangle. Click this map to enlarge it.]]  

'''400 -600 A.D.''' Inhabitants arrive from the ''Marquesas Islands or Mangareva'', French Polynesia. (Some theories say they came from ''Uru,'' which is on the borders of Bolivia, Peru, and Chile.)<br>'''1722''' Dutch Explorer, Jacob Roggeveen, names it for Easter, the day he arrived.<br>'''1770''' Spanish explorer Don Felipe Gonzales, claims it for Spain, but this was never made official.<br>'''1774''' British James Cook and French Admiral Bouganville spend a few hours.<br>'''1800s''' Whalers introduce diseases.<br>'''1805''' American ship kidnaps 22 islanders.<br>'''1860's''' Peruvian slave traders kidnap 1,407 islanders (one third of the island’s population).<br>'''1860's''' Peru sends 100 of the captives back, but only 10 survive, and they bring small pox to Easter Island.<br>'''1866''' French missionaries set up hospitals and missions.<br>'''1868''' Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Dutrou-Du Bornier sets himself up as governor<br>'''1871''' French missionaries leave. Two hundred Easter Islanders leave for Tahiti and 150 to Gambier. <br>'''1877''' DuBornier makes the island into a sheep ranch. The 150 Easter Islanders who are left murder him.<br>'''1888''' Chilean Captain, Policarpo Hurtado, takes possession of Easter Island in the name of Chile “forever.”<br>'''1870-1920''' Various ship wrecks leave passengers on the island.<br>'''1914''' Starving islanders revolt and request to go to Tahiti. Revolt did not succeed.<br>'''1934-1935''' French ethnologist, Alfred Metraux, gathers information and writes Ethnoloygy of Easter Island, published by the Bishop Museum Press.<br>'''1952''' Chilean Navy takes over the island. Keeps natives suppressed.<br>'''1955''' Thor Hyerdahlm, a Norwegian professor, brings his expedition to study the island.<br>'''1964''' Another revolt. Elections ordered. Easter Islander named Rapu wins election. Suppression ends. <br>'''1967''' Americans build tracking station and airfield. Commercial flights begin.<br>'''2000''' There is a branch of the LDS Church on the island.