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===Timeline=== | ===Timeline=== | ||
1606 - The first recorded European landing in the islands<br> | 500 - Expeditions to New Zealand by Maori begin from Rarotonga, probably from Ngatangiia.<br> | ||
1821 - The islands saw no more Europeans until missionaries arrived from England<br> | 800 - Expedition of Ru from Tubua`i in French Polynesia to Rarotonga and Aitutaki.<br> | ||
1888 - The Cook Islands became a British protectorate<br> | 1606 - The first recorded European landing in the islands.<br> | ||
1821 - The islands saw no more Europeans until missionaries arrived from England. London Missionary Society landed in Aitutaki. Islanders quickly converted to Christianity. Population around 6,500.<br> | |||
1888 - The Cook Islands became a British protectorate.<br> | |||
1860s - Population diminished to 2,000 due to sickness.<br> | |||
1861-1907 London Mission Society gives births and death, civil registration.<br> | |||
1870 - Queen Makea Tukau has government authority and petitions for British protection. <br> | |||
1888 - Became a British protectorate. Freedom of religion guaranteed.<br> | |||
1895 - First Roman Catholic Church dedicated.<br> | |||
1896 (some 1876) - A large number of oral genealogies was recorded.<br> | |||
1900 - Seven instruments of cession of Rarotonga and other islands were signed by their chiefs and people and by a British Proclamation issued at the same time the cessions were the islands being declared parts of Her Britannic Majesty's dominions<br> | 1900 - Seven instruments of cession of Rarotonga and other islands were signed by their chiefs and people and by a British Proclamation issued at the same time the cessions were the islands being declared parts of Her Britannic Majesty's dominions<br> | ||
1901 - The islands were included within the boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand under the Colonial Boundaries Act, 1895 of the United Kingdom. The boundary change became effective on 11 June 1901 and the Cook Islands have had a formal relationship with New Zealand ever since<br> | 1901 - The islands were included within the boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand under the Colonial Boundaries Act, 1895 of the United Kingdom. The boundary change became effective on 11 June 1901 and the Cook Islands have had a formal relationship with New Zealand ever since.<br> | ||
1948 - 1949 When the British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act came into effect on 1 January 1949, Cook Islanders who were British subjects gained New Zealand citizenship<br> | 1946 - Large numbers of Cook Islanders migrate to New Zealand for jobs.<br> | ||
1965 - The country remained a New Zealand dependent territory until 1965, when the New Zealand Government decided to offer self-governing status to its colony<br> | 1948 - 1949 When the British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act came into effect on 1 January 1949, Cook Islanders who were British subjects gained New Zealand citizenship.<br> | ||
1965 - The country remained a New Zealand dependent territory until 1965, when the New Zealand Government decided to offer self-governing status to its colony.<br> | |||
[[Category:Cook Islands]] | [[Category:Cook Islands]] | ||
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