{"slug": "tonga", "label": "Tonga", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q678", "qid": "Q678", "description": "sovereign state in Oceania, situated on an archipelago", "entries": 12, "years": 11, "span": [1470, 2022], "span_label": ["1470 CE", "2022 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Friendly Islands"], "related": [{"slug": "fiji", "label": "Fiji", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "chile", "label": "Chile", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "canada", "label": "Canada", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "samoa", "label": "Samoa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-nations", "label": "United Nations", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pacific-ocean", "label": "Pacific Ocean", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "polynesia", "label": "Polynesia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "port-jackson", "label": "Port Jackson", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1470, "year_label": "1470 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "In Tonga, in or around 1470, the Tuʻi Tonga Dynasty cedes its temporal powers to the Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua Dynasty, which will remain prominent until about 1600.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359853032#Date_unknown", "title": "1470", "revid": 1359853032, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1643, "year_label": "1643 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 21", "text": "January 21 – Abel Tasman sights the island of Tonga.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340617365#January–March", "title": "1643", "revid": 1340617365, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1793, "year_label": "1793 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "February 28", "text": "28 February – d'Entrecasteaux expedition leaves Tasmania towards the Friendly Islands, continuing the search for La Pérouse.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374053479#Events", "title": "1793 in Australia", "revid": 1374053479, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1808, "year_label": "1808 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Either 1807 or this year Charlotte Badger, from the Venus, is presumed to have left New Zealand, after at least twice refusing passage to Port Jackson. A woman fitting her description is sighted in Tonga nearly 10 years later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360288055#Events", "title": "1808 in New Zealand", "revid": 1360288055, "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": 1900, "year_label": "1900 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 18", "text": "May 18 – The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373317536#May", "title": "1900", "revid": 1373317536, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1972, "year_label": "1972 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 19", "text": "January 19 – The Libertarian enclave Minerva on a platform in the South Pacific, sponsored by the Phoenix Foundation, declares independence. Soon neighboring Tonga annexes the area and dismantles the platform.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371514417#January", "title": "1972", "revid": 1371514417, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1999, "year_label": "1999 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 14", "text": "September 14 – Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369767946#September", "title": "1999", "revid": 1369767946, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 2014, "year_label": "2014 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 3", "text": "July 3 - The government of Tonga reveals a proposal to trade the disputed Minerva Reefs to Fiji in exchange for the Lau Islands, in an effort to settle a decades-old territorial dispute between the two Pacific countries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1280153810#July", "title": "2014 in Fiji", "revid": 1280153810, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 2015, "year_label": "2015 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "May 29", "text": "May 29 – In Tonga, the Mata ʻo e Laʻa Solar Facility is officially opened by King Tupou VI.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373300271#May", "title": "2015", "revid": 1373300271, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"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": "Health & Medicine", "date": "February 2", "text": "2 February – Tonga enters a nationwide lockdown after the country reported its first locally transmitted COVID-19 cases.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1286264763#Events", "title": "2022 in Tonga", "revid": 1286264763, "section": "Events"}}]}