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Independence leader Christian Tein and seven other activists are flown to France for pre-trial detention after being arrested for inciting violence and riots in New Caledonia.
2024-06-23

Australia and New Zealand begin evacuating their citizens from New Caledonia amid civil unrest.
2024-05-22

Riots erupt in New Caledonia as France plans to change the constitution, allowing more recent white French settlers to vote in the island's provincial elections, which protesters claim would marginalise the Indigenous Kanak people.
2024-05-14

The Congress of New Caledonia votes to make vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory for all adults, including anyone visiting New Caledonia, and set December 31 as a deadline to vaccinate them.
2021-09-3

The President of New Caledonia Thierry Santa self-quarantines after a member of his crisis management team tested positive for COVID-19.
2020-04-4

Four people are killed when a Mooney M20 plane crashes shortly after takeoff near the island of Lifou, New Caledonia.
2020-01-4

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hits the Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia.
2018-08-29

A 7.0 magnitude undersea earthquake strikes east of New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. Tsunami warnings for New Caledonia and Vanuatu are cancelled. There are no immediate reports of damage.
2017-11-20

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits off the coast of the Vanuatu island of Malakula, prompting the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) to issue a tsunami warning for the coasts of New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, which was later cancelled.
2016-04-29

New Caledonia's coalition government collapses after the pro-independence Caledonian Union party withdraws its support for President Philippe Gomes in a dispute over the use of New Caledonian flags.
2011-02-18