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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
- Chat room: Levuka timeline structure 1700 – 1880
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- 1886: Levuka five generations of gene-mix; but work racially divided: 430 Europeans, and around 1000 “half-caste FIjians, Samoans, Botu Muliana, and other Polynesians”
- 1886: copra and sugar in Levuka and Fiji
- 1886: Levuka beachfront buildings: the Gold Coast of early Fiji
- 1886: law and order in Levuka; drunks put in stocks, and financial dispute settles by public fights on Sunday in Boatmans Square
- 1868: Levuka Mountain Lovonis captured and enslaved to cotton planters: Thakombau at the head of the Government
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- David WHIPPYS’s Levuka dynasty; five Fijian partners and 12 known children with Adi TULIA, Yunus, Dorcas DELAU, and Tosaka LEVUKA
- 1825: First missionary presence in Fiji
- Chat room: Levuka timeline structure 1700 - 1880
- June 1875: Fiji's first Governor, Sir Arthur Gordon, arrived from Australia
- 1835: Methodist missionaries land at Lakeba
- 1838: Wesleyan missionaries John Hunt and Hannah Summers in Fiji: description of records held in Mitchell Library- Sydney
- May 1840: Fijian hair dos and tattoos
- 1871: Levuka - Australia sailing time 11 to 20 days
- July 1870: Mountaineers from Navosa kill 370 in four towns in Ba, on the North-west coast of Viti Levu
- 1836-1979: List of Sir John Bates Thurston Levuka photos and letters held in Canberra
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