It is believed that the romanisation "Canton" originated from the Portuguese: Cant?o, which was transcribed from Guangdong. Nevertheless, because at the time of the Portuguese arrival, the capital ci ...
Thomas Gilbert was an 18th-century British mariner. Thomas Gilbert and John Marshall were the captains of two East India Company vessels, the Charlotte and the Scarborough, returning from carrying con ...
Captain John Marshall (Marshallese: Jo?o?n M?aje?) was born in Ramsgate, Kent, England on 15 February 1748. Having been bound apprentice at the age of ten he spent his life at sea. In 1788 he capt ...
Krusenstern was born in Hagudi, Harrien, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire into a Baltic German family descended from the Swedish aristocratic family von Krusenstjerna, which remained in the prov ...
Toribio Alonso de Salazar was the Spaniard, born in Las Encartaciones who discovered the Marshall Islands on August 21, 1526. De Salazar was in command of Santa Maria de la Victoria but is not known t ...
Rurutu is the northernmost island in the Austral archipelago of French Polynesia, and the name of a commune consisting solely of that island. It is situated 572 km (355 mi) south of Tahiti.Geologicall ...
The commune of Rimatara consists of the island of Rimatara, and the Maria Islets (?lots Maria). Associated communes are Amaru, Mutuaura and Anapoto.Rimatara is the westernmost inhabited island in the ...
Main article: History of the MarquesasThe first recorded settlers of the Marquesas were Polynesians, who, from archeological evidence, are believed to have arrived before 100 AD. Ethnological and ling ...
The ancestors of the family ultimately came from the island of Fakarava in the Tuamotus. The dynasty originated from the district chieftains or ari'i rahi of Porionu?u (including the smaller district ...
French Polynesia is a semi-autonomous island group designated as an overseas country of France. The Tuamotus combine with the Gambier Islands to form the ?les Tuamotu-Gambier which is one of the five ...
Louise Michel was born at the Ch?teau of Vroncourt (Haute-Marne) on 29 May 1830, the daughter of a serving-maid, Marianne Michel, and the ch?telain, Etienne Charles Demahis.She was brought up by her ...
His father was a Legitimist noble who, as Edmond Rochefort, was well known as a writer of vaudevilles; his mother's views were republican. After experience as a medical student, a clerk at the H?tel ...
The working class of Paris were feeling ostracized after the decadence of the Second Empire and the Franco-Prussian War. The Prussians besieged Paris in September 1870, causing suffering among Parisia ...
Nouméa (French pronunciation: ?) is the capital city of the French special collectivity of New Caledonia. It is situated on a peninsula in the south of New Caledonia's main island, Grande Terre, and ...
Auguste Febvrier-Despointes (1796 - 5 March 1855) was a French counter admiral. He served as the first commandant of New Caledonia from 24 September 1853 to 1 January 1854.Life Despointes entered the ...
