Bora Bora

This article is about the specific polity Bora Bora and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Was a polity on the island od Bora Bora.

Establishment

January 1761: Chief Puni conquered Tahaa.

Chronology

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1. Events

January 1764: Chief Puni attacked Raiatea, which he conquered in 1763 after a three-year campaign.

January 1771: Borabora was actually a place of exile for thieves and other wrongdoers. However, the outcasts eventually became pirates, attacking the other islands in kind. In the 18th century a great chief, Puni (Teihotu Matarua), succeeded in dominating the island's other clans.

January 1821: The Polynesian island of Raiatea, in the Society Islands, was a kingdom from the 18th century. Tamatoa III reigned from 1820 to 1831.

Disestablishment

January 1848: The Kingdom of Bora Bora was established during the early 19th century with the unification of the island of Bora Bora and official recognition by France and the United Kingdom in 1847 through the Jarnac Convention.