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Lapita expansion into Remote Oceania (c. 1600–500 BCE)

1600 BCE - 500 BCE

24 entries

Hawaiian society before European contact (c. 1000–1778)

1000 - 1778

12 entries

Hawaiian heiau construction, reform, and abolition (c. 1200–1893)

1200 - 1893

13 entries

European contact, disease, and social change in the Society Islands (1767–1850)

1767 - 1847

15 entries

Emergence of the Tuʻi Kanokupolu line and Tongan political centralization (c. 1600–1852)

1600 - 1852

13 entries

East Polynesian settlement of Hawaiʻi (c. 900–1300 CE)

900 - 2011

12 entries

Christian missions and religious conversion in Tonga (1797–1900)

1797 - 1893

18 entries
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