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Papua New Guinea in 1977

Historical records for Papua New Guinea in 1977, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.

2Records
2Events
2Named people
1Places
1Categories

Historical records

March

1 March 1977Governor-General Takes OfficeTore Lokoloko

Port Moresby · Government / Government of Papua New Guinea

Tore Lokoloko becomes Governor-General after John Guise

July

July 1977Election MandateMichael Somare

Port Moresby · Government / Government of Papua New Guinea

Somare continues as Prime Minister after the first post-independence national election

Names involved

Michael SomareTore Lokoloko

Places involved

Port Moresby

Provenance

This page is generated from stored World History Database records matching the exact country and year shown above. Exact duplicate display records are collapsed. Records without a month are listed after the monthly sections. Source provenance varies by record; formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.