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 Nauru, located west of Kiribati, was sighted by a British navigator in 1798. Germany annexed it in 1888 and began to mine the phosphate deposits used for fertilizer. Germany lost the island in World War I and the League of Nations put it under joint Australian, New Zealand, and British mandate. The Japanese occupied the islands during World War II. Australia administered it as a U.N. Trusteeship from 1947-1967. It became independent in 1968.
 ==Timeline==
+- The earliest known contact with Europeans occurred in 1521<br>
+Early 17th century -  Spain colonized Guam, the Northern Marianas, and the Caroline Islands,  creating the Spanish East Indies, which was governed from the Spanish Philippines<br>
+- The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions – a Protestant group – brought their Puritan ways to Polynesia<br>
+- The German- Spanish treaty transferred the Caroline Islands, the Mariana Islands, Palau and other possessions to Germany. Under German control, the islands became a protectorate and were administered from German New Guinea<br>
+- The United States took control of Guam following the Spanish–American War, and claimed Wake Island<br>
+- During World War I, Germany's Pacific island territories were seized and became League of Nations mandates. Nauru became an Australian mandate, while Germany's other territories in Micronesia were given as a mandate to Japan and were named the South Pacific Mandate<br>
 == References  ==