History Samoa

 Historical dates

The first Polynesian inhabitants of Samoa had settled on this island roughly 2,000 years before the first European settlers, in 1830.
The archipelago was colonized by the Germans, which made it a protectorate in 1899.
During World War I, the Germans were pushed out by New Zealand, who obtained a mandate from the United Nations to govern these territories.
An autonomous government was set in 1959, and Independence proclaimed in 1962, within the Commonwealth.
In 1963, Tanumafili became king.
Created at the end of the 1970's, the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) won the 1982 elections, and again in 1988 and in 1991. Their leader, Tofilau Eti Alesana, was the Prime Minister of the country.