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The Treaty of Friendship and protected state status ended in 1970 under arrangements established prior to her death by the third monarch, Queen Sālote. An unspoken agreement of the treaty that was common in British protected states was a new monopoly on Tonga's thriving vanilla industry, and their small deposits of minerals.
Tonga became a protected state under a Treaty of Friendship with Britain on 18 May 1900, when European settlers and rival Tongan chiefs unsuccessfully tried to oust the man who had succeeded Tāufaʻāhau as king. The treaty posted no higher permanent representative on Tonga than a British consul (1901–1970). Under the protection of Britain ...
Tonga became a British protected state under a Treaty of Friendship on May 18, 1900, when European settlers and rival Tongan chiefs tried to oust the second king. The Treaty of Friendship and protected state status ended in 1970 under arrangements established prior to her death by the third monarch, Queen Sālote .
Tonga has been a member of the Commonwealth of Nations since 4 June 1970. Tonga was a British protected monarchy from 1900 to 1970, when it became an independent native monarchy within the Commonwealth of Nations, a status shared by Brunei, Lesotho, Malaysia, and Eswatini, which also have their own native monarchs.
Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900-1965 (ISBN 1-86940-205-7) Latukefu, S. (1974), Church and State in Tonga, ANU Press, Canberra; Campbell, Ian C; Island Kingdom: Tonga Ancient and Modern, 2001, ISBN 0-908812-96-5 "Brief history of the Kingdom of Tonga", on the website of the Tongan Parliament
Tonga became a British protectorate under a Treaty of Friendship on 18 May 1900, when European settlers and rival Tongan chiefs tried to oust the second king. Within the British Empire , which posted no higher permanent representative on Tonga than a British Consul (1901–1970), Tonga formed part of the British Western Pacific Territories ...
Tonga: Kingdom of Tonga United Kingdom: 4 June 1970 Taufaʻahau Tupou IV: request Fiji [9] Kingdom of Fiji. Colony of Fiji. 5 June 1871 13 August 1877 10 October 1970 [10] Seru Epenisa Cakobau (Kingdom of Fiji) Kamisese Mara [11] (Prime Minister: head of gov.) British initiative, and negotiation Papua New Guinea: German New Guinea Territory of ...
To appease security concerns of Australia and New Zealand, in 1879 a Treaty of Friendship was entered into with Britain and in 1886, Tonga signed a similar agreement with the United States. [24] [26] [27] In 1900, Tonga officially became a British Protected State, when a Treaty of Friendship and Protection was signed 18 May. [27]