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Those who remained were mostly older men. Six years later, only 111 people lived on Easter Island, and only 36 of them had any offspring. [52] From that point on, the island's population slowly recovered. But with over 97% of the population dead or gone in less than a decade, much of the island's cultural knowledge had been lost.
The Rapa Nui (Rapa Nui: [ˈɾapa ˈnu.i], Spanish: [ˈrapa ˈnu.i]) are the indigenous Polynesian peoples of Easter Island.The easternmost Polynesian culture, the descendants of the original people of Easter Island make up about 60% of the current Easter Island population and have a significant portion of their population residing in mainland Chile.
Felipe González de Ahedo, also spelled Phelipe González y Haedo (13 May 1714 in Santoña, Cantabria – 26 October 1802), was a Spanish navigator and cartographer known for annexing Easter Island in 1770. The native signatures on the 1770 Spanish treaty. [note 1] González de Ahedo commanded two Spanish ships, the San Lorenzo and the Santa ...
The Easter that most people think of with jelly beans, cellophane grass, peeps, and bunnies, does not exist in Latin America. Instead, you'll find a nation with traditions deeply rooted in ...
Easter Island's long isolation was ended on Easter Sunday, 1722, when a Dutch explorer, Jacob Roggeveen, discovered the island. He named it for the Holy day. The Dutch were amazed by the great statues, which they thought were made from clay. [62] [63] A Spanish Captain, Don Felipe Gonzales, was the next to land at Easter Island, in 1770.
In several cases, Easter falls onto the latest possible, 17th Sunday of the year. The first time that Easter will fall on April 24 in a leap year will be in 4292 which is also the 115th day of the year. The second latest date for Easter, April 24 or day 114, occurred in 2011. The last time this occurred before was in 1859 and it will not happen ...
Adelina Domingues (February 19, 1888 – August 21, 2002) was a Cape Verdean American supercentenarian who was the world's oldest person from the death of 114-year-old British-American woman Grace Clawson on May 28, 2002, to her own death less than three months later. [ 41] Domingues was born in Cape Verde.
Although initial estimates of the number expelled such as those of Henri Lapeyre range between 275,000 and 300,000 [3] Moriscos (or 4% of the total Spanish population), the extent and actual success of the expulsion order in purging Spain of its Moriscos has been increasingly challenged by modern historians, starting with the seminal studies ...