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The order of succession to the throne of Tonga is laid down in the 1875 constitution. The crown descends according to male-preference cognatic primogeniture . Only legitimate descendants through legitimate line of King George Tupou I 's son and grandson, Crown Prince Tēvita ʻUnga and Prince ʻUelingatoni Ngū , are entitled to succeed.
Date Event 1918: 5 April: George Tupou II died and was succeeded by Queen Sālote Tupou III. 1965: 16 December: Sālote Tupou died and was succeeded by King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV. 1970: July: Tonga regained full sovereignty and independence from the United Kingdom and joined the Commonwealth of Nations. 1999: 14 September: Tonga joined the ...
Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language: An Ethnolinguistic Study. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing. p. 45. ISBN 978-90-272-0283-3. Wood-Ellem, Elizabeth (1999). Queen Sālote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900-1965. Auckland, N.Z: Auckland University Press. p. front. ISBN 978-0-8248-2529-4.
According to leading Tongan scholars, including Okusitino Mahina, the Tongan and Samoan oral traditions indicate that the first Tu'i Tonga was the son of their god Tangaloa. [12] As the ancestral homeland of the Tu'i Tonga dynasty and the abode of deities such as Tagaloa 'Eitumatupu'a, Tonga Fusifonua, and Tavatavaimanuka.
George Tupou I (4 December 1797 [1] – 18 February 1893), [2] originally known as Tāufaʻāhau I, was the first king of modern Tonga.He adopted the name Siaosi (originally Jiaoji), the Tongan equivalent of George, after King George III of the United Kingdom, when he was baptized in 1831.
Prince Tāufaʻāhau Manumataongo Tukuʻaho (born 10 May 2013) [1] is a member of the Tongan royal family, second in the line of succession to the Tongan throne as the eldest child and only son of Crown Prince Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala. [1] Tāufaʻāhau is the eldest grandson of the current King of Tonga, Tupou VI.
In many Polynesian languages, including Tongan, the word tonga (Tongan:), [11] [12] [13] comes from fakatonga, which means 'southwards', and the archipelago is so named because it is the southernmost group among the island groups of western Polynesia. [14]
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