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James Cook landing at Tanna island, c. 1774. The Vanuatu group of islands first had contact with Europeans in 1606, when the Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, sailing for the Spanish Crown, arrived on the largest island and called the group of islands La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo or "The Southern Land of the Holy Spirit", believing he had arrived in Terra Australis or Australia.
An independence movement arose in the 1970s, and the Republic of Vanuatu was founded in 1980. Since independence, the country has become a member of the United Nations , Commonwealth of Nations , Organisation internationale de la Francophonie , and the Pacific Islands Forum .
This page lists the individual Vanuatu year pages. It only references years after 1980, when the country gained independence. Twenty-first century. 2020s 2020
Eritrea , San Marino (San Marino RTV), Vanuatu , Western Samoa (SBC Television 1) 1994 Tanzania (mainland, Coastal Television Network) 1995 Andorra , [bo] Gambia (Gambia Radio & Television Service), Saint Helena (Sure South Atlantic Ltd), Turks and Caicos Islands (WIV Channel 4), Vanuatu ( Sanma ) 1996
The party was founded on 17 August 1971 by Walter Lini as the New Hebridean Cultural Association, renamed later that same year as the New Hebrides National Party. It was one of two parties formed during the country's move towards independence.
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Six Chinese fishing boats were found to be violating Vanuatu's fisheries law after being inspected by local police who were on board the first U.S. Coast Guard boat to patrol the ...
Jan Mayen was made part of the Kingdom of Norway. 1814: Dissolution of the union between Norway and Denmark. 7 June 1905: Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden. 8 May 1945: German occupying forces surrender. Poland: 4 June 1989: The first partially free Parliament's vote after 45-year-long Soviet domination 966
On this day in 1985, the first Blockbuster video store rental opened in Dallas, Texas. Blockbuster was founded by David Cook, who at the time had owned a computer software business. However, it ...