Tahiti Timeline of Events

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Tahiti

Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia. The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous with surrounding coral reefs...

Timeline of Events

1767

6.18.1767

Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.

1789

4.28.1789

Mutiny on the ''Bounty'': Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.

1880

6.29.1880

France annexes Tahiti.

1891

7.26.1891

France annexes Tahiti.