Ratu Epenisa Seru
Cakobau
BORN : 1815, Lakeba,Lau Island Group,Fiji
BAPTIZED : 30 APR 1854
DIED : FEB 1883
FATHER : Ratu
Tanoa Visawaqa [ - 8 DEC 1852]
MOTHER : Adi Savusavu
PARTNER 1 : Adi Litia
Samanunu
Union: 1839
- Adi Arieta Koila [1840 -
1887]
- Ratu Epeli Nailatikau
[1842 - 1901]
- Adi Asenaca Kakua Vuikaba
[1844 - ]
- Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua
[1847 - 1888]
- Ratu Josefa Celua [ -
1886]
PARTNER 2 : Adi Salote
Qalirea Kaunilotuna
- Ratu Sukuna Vana
- Ratu Viliame Bulikiveida
- Adi Lusiana Qolikoro
NOTES:
1st and last Tui Viti (King of Fiji) 1871/1874
6th Vunivalu of Bau 1852/1883
1st and last Tui Bau 1867/1869
President of the General Assembly, Confederacy of Independent Kingdoms
of Viti 1865/1867, converted to Christianity in 1854, taking the name
of Epenisa (Ebenezer); a Confederacy of Independent Kingdoms of Viti
was established in 1865, with hi
m as Chairman of the General Assembly, in 1869 the confederacy split
into the Kingdom of Bau and the Confederation of Lau, with Cakobau
assuming kingship of the former, he succeeded in creating a united
Fijian kingdom in 1871, and established Levu
ka as his capital, he ceded the Fijian islands to Britain in 1874 to
counter a perceived American threat of annexation.
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