Papua New Guinea independence
1975 · Event
Papua New Guinea becomes independent from Australian administration under Michael Somare, uniting hundreds of language groups in a new Pacific state.
On these timelines: Australia & the Pacific, Master
More from Australia & the Pacific
- Settlement of Australia (65000 BCE)
- First British settlement in Australia (1788)
- Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Gallipoli campaign (1915)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- New Zealand grants women the vote (1893)
Around 1975
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- Six-Day War (1967)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)