Timeline of Fiji

Date |Event | |
|1500 BC |Fiji was suggested to have settled by Polynesians before Micronesian, but there lacks evidence that this happened either in oral and |
| |geology, except that of Ma'afu. |

[edit]1820 to 1874

|Date |Event |
|1822 |European settlement begins at Levuka, Fiji's first modern town. |
|1830 |The first Christian missionaries from Tahiti, Hatai, Arue and Tahaara, arrive at Lakeba, brought via Tonga by the London Missionary |
| |Society. |
|1835 |Methodist missionaries, William Cross and David Cargill, arrive in Lakeba. They are accompanied by emissaries from Taufa'ahau the Tongan |
| |high chief and by Josua Mateinaniu, a Fijian from Vulaga who had been converted at Vava'u in 1834. |
|1840 |First visit from an American exploring expedition commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes. |
| |1845 Conversion of Ratu Ravisa (Varani), chief of Viwa, influenced by the ministry of Rev. John Hunt. Varani is the first significant |
| |Fijian missionary among the islands and a strong counter-cultural influence upon Ratu Seru Cakobau, preeminent among the warring chiefs |
| |of Fiji. |
|1847