Rapa Nui - Timeline By warmloaf :3 Period: 3000 BCE to 1000 BCE Mana Originated 300 Polynesians Arrived in Rapa Nui Period: 1200 to 1650 Moai Are Carved Period: 1500 to 1600 Birdman Cult Created the Competition for Tangata Manu Period: 1500 to 1760 The Birdman Cult 1722 Rapa Nui Island starts running out of resources Apr 5, 1722 English Arrived in Rapa Nui Period: 1750 to 1800 Polynesians start converting to Christianity 1774 Captain James Cook Arrived in Rapa Nui Period: 1862 to 1864 Rapa Nui people were enslaved Period: 1866 to 1867 Birdman Cult Stopped the Competition for Tangata Manu 1966 Rapa Nui people gain right to their land