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Ari'ifaite A Hiro
Tenaniʻa Ariʻifaʻaite a Hiro (10 January 1820 – 6 August 1873) was a Prince consort of Tahiti. He was son of Hiro from Huahine and Teihotu alias Ta'avea daughter of Tamatoa III of Raiatea. He became second consort of his first cousin, Pōmare IV, Queen of Tahiti, who was likewise a maternal granddaughter of Tamatoa III. From their union were born: # A boy (1833, died young),"Their first two children died. Then, they had Ariiaue..." died of dysentery # Henry Pōmare (August 1835, died young)., died of dysentery # Ariʻiaue Pōmare (12 August 1838 – 10 May 1856), Crown Prince of Tahiti, Ariʻi of Afaʻahiti. # Pōmare V (3 November 1839 – 12 June 1891), succeeded as King of Tahiti. # Teriʻimaevarua II (23 May 1841 – 12 February 1873), succeeded as Queen of Bora Bora. # Tamatoa V Tamatoa V, born Tamatoa-a-tu Pōmare, (23 September 1842, Moorea – 30 September 1881, Papeete), King of Raiatea and Taha'a, was a son of Queen Pōmare IV of Tahiti. Life Adopte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in January 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was List of monarchs in Britain by length of reign, longer than those of any of her predecessors, constituted the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After the deaths of her father and grandfather in 1820, she was Kensington System, raised under close supervision by her mother and her Comptrol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamatoa III
Tamatoa III (c. 1757 – 1831) was the King King is a royal title given to a male monarch. A king is an Absolute monarchy, absolute monarch if he holds unrestricted Government, governmental power or exercises full sovereignty over a nation. Conversely, he is a Constitutional monarchy, ... of Raiatea from 1820 to 1831. His father was U'uru, or Vetea-ra'i-'u'uru, who was the son of Tamatoa II by his third wife. His father was the ari'i maro 'ura, high chief, at 'Opoa on Raiatea, during Captain James Cook's visit in 1773. Family References French Polynesian royalty Raiatea 19th-century monarchs in Oceania People from Raiatea 1831 deaths Year of birth uncertain Converts to Protestantism from pagan religions {{FrenchPolynesia-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1820 Births
Events January–March *January 1 – A constitutionalist military insurrection at Cádiz leads to the summoning of the Spanish Parliament to meet on March 7, becoming the nominal beginning of the " Trienio Liberal" in Spain. *January 8 – The General Maritime Treaty of 1820 is signed between the sheikhs of Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Quwain and Ras Al Khaimah (later constituents of the Trucial States) in the Arabian Peninsula and the United Kingdom. *January 27 ( NS, January 15 OS) – An Imperial Russian Navy expedition, led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in '' Vostok'' with Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev, sights the Antarctic ice sheet. *January 29 – George IV of the United Kingdom becomes the new British monarch upon the death his father King George III after 59 years on the throne. The elder George's death ends the 9-year period known as the British Regency. *January 30 – British Royal Navy captain Edward Bransfield, an Irishman, becomes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Marau
Johanna Marau Taʻaroa a Tepau Salmon (24 April 1860 – 2 February 1935) was the last Queen of Tahiti as the wife of King Pōmare V, who ruled from 1877 to 1880. Her name means "Much unique cleaning of the splash" in the Tahitian language. Life Family She was born in 1860 to Alexander Salmon (Solomon), an English Jewish merchant, and Princess Oehau, later given the title ariʻi Taimaʻi, their third daughter and seventh child. Her mother was the adoptive daughter of King Pōmare II's widow, the mother of Pōmare III and Pōmare IV. Considered one of the highest ranking chieftainesses in the land, she was head of the Teva clan, the traditional rivals of the Pōmare family, and descended from Chief Amo and ''Queen'' Purea who received the first European explorer to Tahiti Samuel Wallis in 1767. In 1846, Ariitamai was considered a rival candidate to the throne by the French governor Armand Joseph Bruat in the event that Queen Pōmare IV did not return from her self-imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Consorts Of Tahiti
A royal consort is a spouse of a monarch. The Kingdom of Tahiti was founded by Pōmare I (known as Tu) between 1788 and 1791. His dynasty lasted until his great-grandson Pōmare V abdicated in 1880 and the French annexed Tahiti and its dependencies to form French Polynesia. Pōmare Dynasty References Bibliography * * *{{cite journal, last=Teissier, first=Raoul, title=Chefs et notables des Établissements Français de l'Océanie au temps du protectorat: 1842–1850, journal=Bulletin de la Société des Études Océaniennes , issue=202, url=http://bibnum.upf.pf/items/show/758, year=1978, publisher=Société des Études Océaniennes, location=Papeete, oclc=9510786 Lists of queens, Tahiti Pōmare dynasty Tahitian women Lists of royal consorts, Tahiti, List of royal consorts of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tapoa II
Tapoa II (c. 1806–1860) was the king of the Tahitian island of Bora Bora from 1831 to 1860. He was also a Royal consort of Tahiti as husband of Pōmare IV, Queen regnant of Tahiti. Tapoa II was born in 1806. He was the son of Tapoa I, King of Tahaʻa and Bora Bora, by his wife, Ai-mata. He married Pōmare IV Pōmare IV (28 February 1813 – 17 September 1877), more properly ʻAimata Pōmare IV Vahine-o-Punuateraʻitua (otherwise known as ʻAimata – "eye-eater", after an old custom of the ruler to eat the eye of the defeated foe), was the Queen of ... in December 1822. This marriage was childless and ended in divorce in 1834. Later, he married Tapoa Vahine. Ancestry References * * * * * * ** * * People from the Kingdom of Bora Bora 1800s births 1860 deaths 19th-century monarchs in Oceania French Polynesian royalty Converts to Protestantism from pagan religions {{FrenchPolynesia-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omoo
''Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas'' is the second book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1847, and a sequel to his first South Seas narrative '' Typee'', also based on the author's experiences in the South Pacific. After leaving the island of Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel that makes its way to Tahiti, after which there is a mutiny and a third of the crew are imprisoned on Tahiti. In 1949, the narrative was adapted into the exploitation film '' Omoo-Omoo, the Shark God''. Background The basis for the book are the author's experiences in the South Seas. According to scholars Harrison Hayford and Walter Blair, in August and September 1842, the ''Lucy Ann'', an Australian whaleship, took Melville from the Marquesas Islands to Tahiti. There the crew revolted. After being imprisoned in the native jail, he strolled around the islands for some days, before embarking on another whaler for a voyage of six mont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Missionary Society
The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh Congregationalist minister Edward Williams. It was largely Reformed tradition, Reformed in outlook, with Congregational church, Congregational missions in Oceania, Africa, and the Americas, although there were also Presbyterians (notable for their work in China), Methodists, Baptists, and various other Protestants involved. It now forms part of the Council for World Mission. Origins In 1793, Edward Williams (minister), Edward Williams, then minister at Carr's Lane, Birmingham, wrote a letter to the churches of the Midlands, expressing the need for interdenominational world evangelization and foreign missions.Wadsworth KW, ''Yorkshire United Independent College -Two Hundred Years of Training for Christian Ministry by the Congregational Churches of Yorkshire'' Independent Press, London, 1954 It was effective and Williams began to play an acti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Pōmare
Victoria Pōmare-vahine (c. 1844 – June 1845) was a Tahitian princess and daughter of Queen Pōmare IV of Tahiti and her husband Ariʻifaʻaite a Hiro. A member of Pōmare Dynasty, she was born during the outbreak of the Franco-Tahitian War (1844–1847) when the Tahitian royal family were exiled to the neighboring island kingdom of Raiatea. She was named after the British Queen Victoria in hopes of a British intercession in the conflict. Biography She was born in circa 1844 on the island of Raiatea while her mother was exiled there. She had three older brothers: Ariʻiaue, Teretane, Tamatoa and an older sister named Teriʻimaevarua. After the French invaded Tahiti in 1843, her family fled to Raiatea aboard the ''Carysfort'' to escape from the French colonial authorities and the violence of the Franco-Tahitian War. On Raiatea, her family resided in the Opoa Valley, on the southeast coast of the island, where the Taputapuatea marae once stood. The land had been provided fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bora Bora
Bora Bora (French language, French: ''Bora-Bora''; Tahitian language, Tahitian: ''Pora Pora'') is an island group in the Leeward Islands (Society Islands), Leeward Islands in the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific. The Leeward Islands comprise the western part of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, which is an Overseas France, overseas collectivity of the France, French Republic in the Pacific Ocean. Bora Bora has a total land area of . The Bora Bora Island, main island, located about northwest of Papeete, is surrounded by a lagoon and a coral reef, barrier reef. In the center of the island are the remnants of an extinct volcano, rising to two peaks, Mount Pahia and Mount Otemanu; the highest point is at . Bora Bora is part of the Communes of France, Commune of Bora-Bora (commune), Bora-Bora, which also includes the atoll of Tūpai. The main languages spoken in Bora Bora are Tahitian language, Tahitian and French language, French. However, due to the high tourist population, many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
