1 gen 1767 anni - Tahiti

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1767 The crew of a British ship commanded by Samuel Wallis visits the island of Tahiti. The Europeans are to stay around forty days and defend their ship from attack by aggressive males with spears. Eventually peace is made. Wallis finds the Tahitians with a hierarchical, tribal and communal society, with devotion to a god, 'Oro, that includes human sacrifice. Perhaps 2,000 years have passed since humans arrived at Tahiti and surrounding islands, and by now peoples there have been involved in quarrels and war.

1768 The French explorer Louis Bougainville "discovers" Tahiti and claims it for King Louis XV of France

1847 Three years of fighting in Tahiti ends with the French crushing Tahitian resistance to French domination.

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