clipperton
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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.
The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
Clipperton (Spain)
Clipperton (France)
Clipperton (Mexico)
Clipperton (USA)
Clipperton (overs. Terr.)
Establishment
November 1528: Clipperton island was discovered by Alvaro Saavedra Cedrón on 15 November 1528. The expedition was commissioned by Hernán Cortés, the Spanish Conquistador in Mexico, to find a route to the Philippines.
Chronology
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1. Events
January 1556: Charles V, who was King of Spain and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, left the Spanish Empire to his son Philip and the Austrian Lands to his brother Ferdinand I.
April 1711: The island was rediscovered on Good Friday, 3 April 1711 by Frenchmen Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, commanding the French ships La Princesse and La Découverte. It was given the name Île de la Passion (English: Passion Island). They drew up the first map and claimed the island for France.
November 1858: On 17 November 1858 Emperor Napoleon III annexed Clipperton as part of the French colony of Tahiti.
December 1897: In 1897, Mexico occupied it.
January 1931: The sovereignty of France over Clipperton was recognized by the arbitration of the International Court and King Victor-Emmanuel III of Italy.
January 1939: The French rebuilt the lighthouse on Clipperton Island and settled a military outpost, which remained for seven years before being abandoned.
January 1945: The island of Clipperton was briefly occupied by the US from 1944-1945.
January 1946: The island of Clipperton was abandoned by the end of World War II after being briefly occupied by the US.
January 1951: TheClipperton island, although uninhabited, returned to be an overseas state private property of France, under direct authority of the Minister of Overseas France.
March 1986: Clipperton becomes an Overseeas Territory.
