{"slug": "fiji", "label": "Fiji", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q712", "qid": "Q712", "description": "island sovereign state in Oceania", "entries": 8, "years": 7, "span": [-1499, 2022], "span_label": ["1500 BCE", "2022 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "tonga", "label": "Tonga", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "pacific-ocean", "label": "Pacific Ocean", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "polynesia", "label": "Polynesia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "july", "label": "July", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "human-cannibalism", "label": "Human cannibalism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chile", "label": "Chile", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "canada", "label": "Canada", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "samoa", "label": "Samoa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "brisbane", "label": "Brisbane", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -1499, "year_label": "1500 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "c. 1500 BC — Polynesians settle in Fiji, (controversial Fiji settlement)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320312812#Events_and_trends", "title": "1500s BC (decade)", "revid": 1320312812, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": 1643, "year_label": "1643 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "February 6", "text": "February 6 – Abel Tasman sights the Fiji Islands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340617365#January–March", "title": "1643", "revid": 1340617365, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1855, "year_label": "1855 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 7", "text": "April 7 – Battle of Kaba: The Kingdom of Tonga in the islands of the southwest Pacific Ocean (Polynesia, Melanesia / Oceania), intervenes in the war between the self-proclaimed Tui Viti (King) of the island of Fiji, Cakobau, and his rivals the Confederation of Rewa. It results in Rewa's defeat and the tenuous unification of Fiji under Cakobau.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358982600#April–June", "title": "1855", "revid": 1358982600, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1867, "year_label": "1867 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "July", "text": "July – The Reverend Thomas Baker, a Wesleyan Methodist missionary (born in Playden, East Sussex, England) is cooked and eaten by Navatusila tribespeople at Nabutautau, Fiji, together with eight of his local followers, the only missionary in that country to suffer cannibalism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365231456#July", "title": "1867", "revid": 1365231456, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1879, "year_label": "1879 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 14", "text": "May 14 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrive in Fiji, aboard the Leonidas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365404244#May", "title": "1879", "revid": 1365404244, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1928, "year_label": "1928 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 9", "text": "June 9 – Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew complete the first flight across the Pacific Ocean, from the mainland United States to Australia, in the Fokker F.VII aircraft Southern Cross. Having left Oakland, California on May 31, they reach Brisbane via Honolulu and Fiji.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372527586#June", "title": "1928", "revid": 1372527586, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "January 15", "text": "January 15 – A large eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai, a submarine volcano in Tonga, triggers tsunami warnings in Australia, Canada, Chile, Fiji, Japan, New Zealand, Samoa, and the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371998228#January", "title": "2022", "revid": 1371998228, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "May 27", "text": "May 27 – Fiji announces that it will become the 14th member of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework in order to counter Chinese influence in the Pacific. This comes amid a visit by Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi to Kiribati.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371998228#May", "title": "2022", "revid": 1371998228, "section": "Events › May"}}]}