samoa

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

Paramountcy of Samoa

German Samoa

Territory of Western Samoa

Independent State of Western Samoa

Independent State of Samoa

Establishment

January 1251: Independence of the Paramountcy of Samoa from Tonga.

Chronology

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1. Second Samoan Civil War

Was a civil war in Samoa with the involvement of the western countries that resulted in the partition of the archipleago between Germany and the United States of America.

March 1899: Apia is besieged by British and American forces.

March 1899: At the end of March, a joint expedition of British, U.S., and Samoan forces marched along the coast from Apia towards Vailele.

April 1899: The Second Battle of Vailele in 1899 was a defeat for the expeditionary forces led by German Admiral Otto von Diederichs and Samoan chief Mata'afa Iosefo. They retreated back to Apia, which was the capital of German Samoa at the time.

1.1.Tripartite Convention of 1899

Was a convention that ended the Second Samoan Civil War with the partition of the Samoan Islands into American Samoa and German Samoa.

February 1900: The Second Samoan Civil War was ended by the Tripartite Convention of 1899, which divided the Samoan Islands into American Samoa and German Samoa.

2. World War I

Was a global conflict between two coalitions, the Allies (primarily France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the United States) and the Central Powers (led by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire). It was mainly caused by the competition of the western countries over domain in Europe and in the rest of the world with their colonial empires. The war ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. The war also caused the Russian Revolution and the ensuing Russian Civil War.

2.1.World War I Pacific Theatre

Was the Pacific theatre of World War I.

August 1914: At the behest of the United Kingdom the colony of German Samoa was invaded unopposed by troops of the Samoa Expeditionary Force.

3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1831: Malietoa Vai'inupo Tavita becomes the first king of Kingdom of the Tui Manuʻa, which ruled over the Manu'a islands Group in present-day American Samoa.

December 1920: The League of Nations formally conferred a Class C Mandate over the former German Colony of Samoa to the Dominion of New Zealand.

November 1947: Full independence was granted to New Zealand with the Statute of Westminster in 1931 and adopted by the New Zealand Parliament in 1947.

January 1962: Independence of Samoa.

July 1997: The government amended the constitution to change the country's name from Western Samoa to Samoa.