Guinea

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  • Aug 29, 1000

    16th century AD

    16th century AD -Ships from China and the Malay Empire traded with islanders.
  • Aug 28, 1500

    Zoomphoric Figure 1500 B.C.

    The earliest known Oceanic sculptures are a variety of ancient stone objects discovered in New Guinea. The dating of these objects remains uncertain, although organic material associated with one example has recently been carbon-dated to around 1500 B.C., indicating that some are of great antiquity.
  • Aug 29, 1500

    Pestle Finial in the Form of a Bird 1500 B.C.

    This stylized bird figure once adorned the end of a stone pestle. Almost certainly used in conjunction with the prehistoric stone mortars found in the same region, such pestles may have been ritual objects, possibly used to grind pigments used for body paint or in the preparation of ceremonial meals.
  • Aug 30, 1500

    Bird Head, unknown date.

    Endowed with powerful magic, the ancient images are reused in a number of ritual contexts, ranging from hunting and farming magic, to healing, to deadly forms of sorcery. The red ocher pigment on the surface of this example was probably applied in historic times, as the object was reused in a contemporary ritual context.
  • Aug 31, 1500

    Bird Figure 1500 B.C.

    Unearthed by chance, they are believed to be supernaturally powerful objects and are employed in a variety of ceremonial contexts, including fertility rites, curing sickness, warfare, and malevolent magic.
  • Aug 13, 1512

    1512 AD

    The first definite European sighting of the New Guinea island was in 1512
  • Aug 29, 1526

    1526- Jorge de Meneses

    Portuguese sailor Jorge de Meneses, the first European visitor, named one of the islands "ilhas dos Papuas" or "land of fuzzy-haired people".
  • Aug 29, 1546

    1546- Inigo Ortiz

    Spanish explorer Inigo Ortiz de Retes named the other main island New Guinea because the islanders resemble the people of Guinea in Africa.

  • 1768- Louis de Bougainville

    French explorer, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, lands at the islands during his circumnavigation of the world. Bougainville then gives an island just to the east of New Guinea its name.

  • 1873- Port Moresby

    Port Moresby is named after one of several English explorers to lay claim to the island for Great Britain.

  • 1884- Britain and Sout-east New Guinea

    Britain established a protectorate over south-east New Guinea, while Germany annexed the northern part of New Guinea.

  • Claiming New Guinea

    In September 1884 the British announced that they intended to claim part of New Guinea, the Germans quickly raised the flag on the north coast.

  • ...

    The land that is now Guinea belonged to a series of African empires until France colonized it in the 1890s, and made it part of French West Africa

  • 1906- Commonwealth

    Control of British New Guinea transferred to the newly independent Commonwealth of Australia and renamed Territory of Papua.

  • 1914- Australia and Germany

    Australian forces occupy German New Guinea during World War I.

  • Ahmed Sékou Touré

    Ahmed Sékou Touré became President upon Guinea's independence in 1958, establishing one-party dictatorship

  • 1964

    A 64-member House of Assembly replaced Legislative Council and for the first time indigenous representatives are elected to the majority of seats in the legislature.

  • 1980- Education

    In the mid-1980s only one-third of the population was literate.

  • Touré

    Touré died unexpectedly on 26 March 1984.

  • 1995- Education

    1995, 2,790 primary schools had 13,457 teachers and a total enrollment of 516,797 students.
    Secondary schools had approximately 3,400 teachers and enrolled 78,759 students.

  • 2000-

    1,000 inhabitants of the Duke of York will have to be relocated because the island is slowly sinking due to global warming.

  • 2002- Sir Michael Somare

    After a violent and chaotic election, Sir Michael Somare elected as prime minister for a third time.

  • 2004- Australia

    Australia deploys police to help fight rampant crime.

  • 2007- Gambling

    In the hopes that the activity could boost the economy parliament passes a law to allow casinos and online gambling.

  • 2012- religion stats

    about 22% are Roman Catholics; 16% are Lutheran; another 8% are Presbyterian, Methodist, or London Missionary Society; 5% are Anglican; 4% Evangelical Alliance; and 1% Seventh-Day Adventist. Other Protestant sects account for 10% of the population.

  • 2012- Education

    The University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby offers degrees in law, science, medicine and arts. The University of Technology in Lae offers degrees in technical subjects such as engineering, business, architecture, and forestry

  • 2012

    New guinea languages tok Pisin, Hiri motu, and english

  • 2012 religion

    bout 34% of the population practicing some form of traditional belief either exclusively or in conjunction with another faitth most of the population is nominally Christian

  • 3000 B.C.E

    Human migrants arrived in New Guinea at least sixty thousand years ago; New Guinea turned to agriculture.

  • 3000 B.C.E

    Austronesian people from southeast Asia were seafarers to New Guinea.