Spanish Micronesia

Spanish-Micronesia - History

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Spain maintained and consolidates a controlling position over two of the Micronesian archipelagos, the Caroline Islands and Mariana Islands. The Carolines arrived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Portuguese in their quest for the Spice Islands and then the Spanish.

The Mariannes were spotted on 6 March 1521 by the famous sailor Magellan, to whom he gave the name Ladrones. 1528 Alvaro de Saavedra found the Uluthi or Mackenzie group and took it over on behalf of Spain. Drake, who saw the cars in 1579, found the island.

1686 the Spanish admiral Francesco Lazeano discovered the island again and gave it its name after Charles II of Spain. The Spanish began missionary instruction in the 18th c., but was soon given up. Spaniards in the Philippines and Ladrone had some traffic and commerce with the Pelevs, Yap. and the other isles in the west part of the island. A Spanish delegation was founded in Yap in 1856.

Whaling and casual merchants came to the island, but there was little to do. Up to the advent of coppa, the dry edocoanut, there was little that attracted the trades. Spanish East Indies (Spanish: Indias Oriental españolas; Filipino: Silangangang Indiyas ng Espanya) were the Spanish regions in the Asia-Pacific region until 1899.

For a short time, they covered the Philippines, the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands (also known as the new Philippine Islands) and the Spanish Formosa and parts of the Spice Islands. The Caroline Islands, or at least the Central Carolines and the Pelews, were generally regarded as part of the Spanish Colonies, as there were no controversial allegations.

It has been found by Spaniards; it is near Spanish settlements; until recently only the Spaniards maintained contact with the inhabitants of the island; and it was identified on the cards as Spanish territories since they were found in the era when Spain and Portugal were the only colonial power, and when the whole New World was shared between them in a Taurus published in 1594 by Pope Alexander VI, who crossed a line across the card as the border of their domination.

From Palau (1686) the Caroline Isles entered the Spanish territory after the advent of FrancisÂco Lezcano and later, when the Jesuits established themselves there (1710). This initiative was the foundation stone for the foundation of Spanish Micronesia. It was the Spanish government that had taken power over the island by deporting the whole of some of the smaller island populations to the Ladrones.

He was never challenged until the British and Germans asked the matter in 1875 in the context of the Spanish consul's attempted action in Hong Kong in relation to the Carolines. After Germany plant its flags in Papua and New Britain in the early 1885s, after the Congo Congress had established the teaching that the efective exercising of independence alone grants supreme powers, the Spanish Philippine government issued a decrees ordering the marine agencies to make provisions to allow the wallet for the island's actual seizure to be used to ship warships to Yap to raise the Spanish banner.

As Germany tried to take over the Caroline Islands, western of the Marshall Isles, between the Ecuador and 10Â degrees southern and 143Â degrees and 165 degrees eastern, Spain abruptly asserted older privileges on the Isles; and after some long debates between the two affected regimes it was decided to abandon the ruling with Pope Leo XIII, who stated that these were part of Spain, but Germany should be permitted to build a navy and coal base there, and allow Germany traders who acquire and reside there to have the same policy privileges as the Spanish suburbs.

The Spanish banner was hoisted in Ascension Bay in Ponape on 27 July 1886. On April 19, 1887, the colony of Santiago was founded and the official declaration of Spanish domination in Ascension Bay followed. The Spanish Micronesia, after the contract with Germany in 1885, was located between the southern line of equator and the 11th degree of latitude and between 139° and 170° East.

There is a long series of 652 islets spread over this vast section of the ocean, about 1400 islets. There are thirty-six small groups in the Caroline Arkipel. The captain Butron of the Spanish cruise ship Velasco (lost in the battles at Manilla), who came to visit the group in 1885, gave these locals a good name.

Yap's Captain O'Keefe, who knows the Pelevs very well, described the crowd as normal corsairs. No Spanish military or missions training or trade centre was in the passenger cars. No action is being taken at all to show that these countries are part of Spain. In general, there was a small domestic conflict, and the Spanish headhunting match disturbed the economy greatly, because the Spaniards let the inhabitants of the island do what they wanted.

He was succeeded by Don Miguel Velasco, a respected marine commander, who died in the slaughter resulting from the arrest of Henry Nanapei of Ronkiti, one of the most important chieftains, who had great US sympathy and was the director of the Protestant mission school in his area. Spaniards were resolved to trade the Pelecs, the Mariannes and the Carolines to a strange power, but neither America, Britain nor Japan need to compete â" and these are the countries best placed to colonize these wild and relentless people.

The United Kingdom would do well in its Pacific Island relationships to listen to Horace's adage, "Tarde veneientibus ossa": "If you arrive too late for lunch, you only get bones."