Tuvalu Travel Guide

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Polynesian voyagers colonize these atolls

1568

the Spaniard Mendaña sights Tuvalu

1819

Captain Arent De Peyster finds Funafuti

1863

Peruvian blackbirders kidnap 450 islanders

1865

London Missionary Society arrives from Samoa

1892

British protectorate proclaimed

1916

Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony created

1942

American military bases on three atolls

1943

Japanese bomb Funafuti

1974

Ellice Islanders vote to secede

1975

Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony divided

1978

Tuvalu granted independence by Britain

1999

Air Fiji begins flights from Fiji

2000

Tuvalu joins the United Nations

2004

government office building opens on Funafuti

2009

Air Pacific replaces Air Fiji to Funafuti