{"slug": "fiji", "label": "Fiji", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q712", "qid": "Q712", "description": "island sovereign state in Oceania", "entries": 11, "years": 9, "span": [-1499, 2022], "span_label": ["1500 BCE", "2022 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 5}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "tonga", "label": "Tonga", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "pacific-ocean", "label": "Pacific Ocean", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "polynesia", "label": "Polynesia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "july", "label": "July", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "human-cannibalism", "label": "Human cannibalism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chile", "label": "Chile", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "canada", "label": "Canada", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "samoa", "label": "Samoa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "brisbane", "label": "Brisbane", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-zealand", "label": "New Zealand", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "port-jackson", "label": "Port Jackson", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -1499, "year_label": "1500 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "c. 1500 BC — Polynesians settle in Fiji, (controversial Fiji settlement)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320312812#Events_and_trends", "title": "1500s BC (decade)", "revid": 1320312812, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": 1643, "year_label": "1643 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "February 6", "text": "February 6 – Abel Tasman sights the Fiji Islands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340617365#January–March", "title": "1643", "revid": 1340617365, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1807, "year_label": "1807 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "October", "text": "October – The General Wellesley, Captain David Dalrymple, arrives in the Bay of Islands. George Bruce and his wife Te Atahoe (daughter of Te Pahi) go on board but are not returned to shore. The General Wellesley then heads for Penang via Fiji. After numerous deprivations George Bruce and Te Atahoe (aka Mary Bruce) are finally returned to Port Jackson in January 1810 where Mary dies shortly after.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360285759#Events", "title": "1807 in New Zealand", "revid": 1360285759, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1855, "year_label": "1855 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 7", "text": "April 7 – Battle of Kaba: The Kingdom of Tonga in the islands of the southwest Pacific Ocean (Polynesia, Melanesia / Oceania), intervenes in the war between the self-proclaimed Tui Viti (King) of the island of Fiji, Cakobau, and his rivals the Confederation of Rewa. It results in Rewa's defeat and the tenuous unification of Fiji under Cakobau.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358982600#April–June", "title": "1855", "revid": 1358982600, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1867, "year_label": "1867 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "July", "text": "July – The Reverend Thomas Baker, a Wesleyan Methodist missionary (born in Playden, East Sussex, England) is cooked and eaten by Navatusila tribespeople at Nabutautau, Fiji, together with eight of his local followers, the only missionary in that country to suffer cannibalism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365231456#July", "title": "1867", "revid": 1365231456, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1879, "year_label": "1879 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 14", "text": "May 14 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrive in Fiji, aboard the Leonidas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365404244#May", "title": "1879", "revid": 1365404244, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1883, "year_label": "1883 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 26", "text": "26 November – An Australasian Inter-Colonial Conference is held in Sydney. Federation and annexation of surrounding islands are discussed by the Australian colonies, New Zealand and Fiji.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598643#Events", "title": "1883 in Australia", "revid": 1360598643, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1928, "year_label": "1928 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 9", "text": "June 9 – Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew complete the first flight across the Pacific Ocean, from the mainland United States to Australia, in the Fokker F.VII aircraft Southern Cross. Having left Oakland, California on May 31, they reach Brisbane via Honolulu and Fiji.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372527586#June", "title": "1928", "revid": 1372527586, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "January 15", "text": "January 15 – A large eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai, a submarine volcano in Tonga, triggers tsunami warnings in Australia, Canada, Chile, Fiji, Japan, New Zealand, Samoa, and the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371998228#January", "title": "2022", "revid": 1371998228, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "May 27", "text": "May 27 – Fiji announces that it will become the 14th member of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework in order to counter Chinese influence in the Pacific. This comes amid a visit by Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi to Kiribati.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371998228#May", "title": "2022", "revid": 1371998228, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "May 27", "text": "27 May – Fiji announces that it will become the 14th member of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity in order to counter Chinese influence in the Pacific. This comes amid a visit by Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi to Kiribati.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1284030109#Events", "title": "2022 in Fiji", "revid": 1284030109, "section": "Events"}}]}