Polity Bonin Islands

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The Bonin Islands (now part of Japan) were visited and claimed by Captain F. W. Beechey in 1827.

Establishment

  • June 1827: In 1827 Captain F. W. Beechey of HMS Blossom reached the island chain and claimed them as a British possession. In 1830, with the help of British Consul to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) Richard Charlton Richard Millichamp and Matteo Mazzaro sailed to the islands.

Chronology

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Disestablishment

  • January 1854: Japanese colonists began moving to the Bonin Islands and Nanpō Islands in 1853 and Japan claimed the islands in 1861, annexing them in 1891 as part of Tokyo Prefecture.