1875: Measles killed over 40,000 in Fiji, reportedly after Ratu Cakobau and his two sons returned from Australia, where they contracted the disease.
1875: Measles killed over 40,000 in Fiji
Posted on October 7, 2007 by levuka
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- 12 May 1840: United States Exploring Expedition commander, Wilkes summons Tanoa to Levuka
- 1840 – 1843: three dark years in Fiji for Wesleyan Methodist, Thomas Williams made few converts
- 1849: first-contact missionary Thomas Williams was ignorant of Fijian custom, and competitive pressures faced by Tuikilakila of Somosomo
- 1859: Tanna people kill plantation owner, Norman, of Sandhurst, Victoria, enroute from Levuka to Norman’s plantation at Nasavusavu: Jimmie Lasulasu survives
- 1871: German firm of Godeffroy and Son – arms traders: supplying arms and ammunition to the Pacific from own arsenal at Liege
- This site aims to provide a Levuka timeline structure for the period 1700 – 1880
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- Levuka Heritage Plan
- Open news source about current Fiji affairs
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- 1819: Peter Dillon now owner and master of the ships in which he sailed
- 1760: Bau chief Nailatikau seized Ulu-ni-vuaka, expelled the Butoni; rise of Bau rapid partly to the advantages gained from the first use of firearms
- 1810 -1812 – Peter Dillon lived on the island of Borabora assembling cargoes of salt pork for Sydney merchant, Thomas Reibey
- 1808: Peter Dillon – 6ft 4in red-haired Irish Catholic, arrived in Fiji from India on a vessel trading for sandalwood
- 1869: Suez Canal aided European influence in Pacific: new era of European influence: journey from Asia to Europe reduced by 6,500 km
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- 94 per cent of Polynesian mtDNAs are of East Asian origin and only 6 per cent are of Melanesian origin
- 1931-34: sightings of the fish-god, the Dakuwaqa
- 1871: Photographer Francis H. Dufty arrived in Levuka, Fiji in June 1871.
- 1760: Bau chief Nailatikau seized Ulu-ni-vuaka, expelled the Butoni; rise of Bau rapid partly to the advantages gained from the first use of firearms
- 1860s: American civil raises world cotton prices; New Zealand and Australian planters arrive
- 1861: Photo of Maafu, and Nacagilevu, on board the HMS Pelorus at Levuka
- 1868: three-way fight for control of Fiji by Britain, America, and Australia; Thakombau crowned king, Melbourne-based Polynesian Company offers to pay Cakobau's debt; but on 10th October, 1874, a deed of cession to Britain, was executed at Levuka
- 1892: Alexander Pritchard, trader in Samoa, defrauds wine merchants Fallon of Albury, NSW, Australia.
- 1868: Frederick Moss came to Fiji to grow cotton after American civil war made sea-island cotton price rise
- 1847: Missionary, George Pritchard, the first British Consular Agent for Samoa
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