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Name: Tahiti (French Colony)

Type: Polity

Start: 1843 AD

End: 1903 AD

Nation: tahiti

Parent: france

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The Kingdom of Tahiti became a French protectorate in 1842, and a colony in 1843. In 1903 it was integrated in the larger colony of the Établissements français d'Océanie.

Establishment


  • November 1843: Encouraged by Pritchard, Queen Pōmare resisted in vain against French intervention, writing to Queen Victoria, asking for British intervention, and to King Louis Philippe I of France. She refused to fly the flag of the protectorate with the French tricolour at its canton and continued to fly the Tahitian flag at her residence. In November 1843, Dupetit Thouars deposed the queen for her continued resistance and formally annexed the islands.
  • Chronology


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    1. Franco-Tahitian War


    Was a conflict between the Kingdom of the French and the Kingdom of Tahiti and its allies in the South Pacific archipelago of the Society Islands in modern-day French Polynesia.


    2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • 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.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1904: In 1903, the Établissements Français d'Océanie (French Establishments in Oceania) were created, which collected together Tahiti, the other Society Islands, the Austral Islands, the Marquesas Islands and the Tuamotu Archipelago.
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