Vanuatu History

Vanuatu in brief

Vanuatu's history goes back 4,000 years. Presumably the island was populated by Austronesian-speaking colonists. Only very few reports of Vanuatu before 1600 have been found. It is said that the Portugese discoverer Pedro Ferandes de Queiros saw the Vanuatu Island in 1606 when he worked for the Royal Family.

He and his crew came to Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu, the biggest isle. Europeans did not visit the archipelago until 1768. It was the Frenchman Louis Antoine de Bouganville who came to visit the archipelago and brought with him the popularity of France.

Some time later, in 1774, the famous sailor Captain James Cook arrived on the Isles and gave the name New Hebrides to the Isles, which was adopted until Vanuatuu' s liberation in 1980. During the 1800s a different ambience was created in Vanuatu. In 1825, a merchant named Peter Dillon found sandalwood on the Erromango Isle.

There was an inward flow of migrants until 1830. Collisions between the immigrant and Polynese labourers halted the run of the immigrant on the land. During the 1860', about half of the grown manhood emigrated from Vanuatu to Australia, Fiji, New Spain and the Samana Islands to work on plantation sites. Catholics and Protestants came to the land in the nineteenth c..

During this period, it was overthrown by the people. Soon France and the UK decided to rulership the island together and founded the Franco-British Condominium, a very singular type of governance that brings together separated regimes of the Franks and Britons in a unified tribunal.

It was questioned and in the 70s the first public policy organization was formed, the New Hebrides National Partys, which demanded the sovereignty of the people. In 1980 the Republic of Vanuatu became a real entity and the Republic of Vanuatu was founded. To this day, since it achieved sovereignty, it has been afflicted by a state of unstable politics.