Netherlands New Guinea

Dutch New Guinea or Netherlands New Guinea was the western half of the island of New Guinea that was a part of the Dutch East Indies until 1949, later an overseas territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1949 to 1962.

Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Dates from Wikidata (CC0)

Which happened first?

• Netherlands New Guinea and Hungarian People's Republic began in the same year
• Netherlands New Guinea and Emirate of Cyrenaica began in the same year
• Netherlands New Guinea and United States of Indonesia began in the same year
• Netherlands New Guinea and West Germany began in the same year
• Netherlands New Guinea began 1 year before Republic of South Maluku

Timeline

1. Emirate of Cyrenaica1949–1951
2. Hungarian People's RepublicAugust 20, 1949 – October 23, 1989
3. Netherlands New Guinea (this page)December 27, 1949 – October 1, 1962
4. United States of IndonesiaDecember 27, 1949 – August 17, 1950
5. West GermanyMay 23, 1949 – October 3, 1990
6. Republic of South Maluku1950–1963

Related

• World War IISeptember 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945
• Soviet UnionDecember 30, 1922 – December 26, 1991
• World War IJuly 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918
• Ottoman EmpireJuly 29, 1299 – November 17, 1922
• Cold War1945 – December 25, 1991
• Middle AgesAD 476 – 1500s
• French RevolutionMay 5, 1789
• Byzantine EmpireJanuary 17, AD 395 – May 29, 1453