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War in the Pacific
Cultural Resources Inventory |
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PART 1
Chronology
| Year | Event | Description |
| 2000 BC | Settled | 2000 BC - Guam inhabited by people migrating out of Southeast Asia. |
| 1521 AD | Explored | Ferdinand Magellan, the Spanish Captain of The Trinidad, is the first European to land on Guam. |
| 1664 - 1898 AD | Colonized | Spanish period in the colonization of Guam. |
| 1898 AD | Purchased/Sold | United States purchases Guam, Philippines and Puerto Rico from Spain as settlement for the Spanish-American War. |
| 1898 - 1941 AD | Settled | First American period of settlement on Guam. |
| 1900 AD | Destroyed | Typhoon destroys the last Spanish leprosarium on Asan Beach. |
| 1900 AD | Moved | Apolinario Mabini and other Filipino prominent civilians and revolutionary generals from the Philippines are banished to Guam (Asan Beach) by the U.S. Government because they refused to take an oath of allegiance to the United States. |
| 1917 AD | Retained | Enlisted German Navy crew held at the detention facility on Asan Beach by the U.S. Military. |
| 1922 AD | Established | U.S. Marines establish a quartermaster depot at Asan Point, which includes a small practice range and barracks. |
| 1940 - 1941 AD | Removed | U.S. Navy engineers use outer edge of Asan Point to quarry limestone. |
| 1941 - 1944 AD | Colonized | Japan invades Guam only hours after attacking Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and occupies the island for four years. |
| 1941- 1944 AD | Colonized | Japanese occupy Guam and destroy all existing American military buildings and begin establishing rice paddies for food production for the soldiers. |
| 1941-1970 AD | Built | Mole (rock rubble breakwater) is built just offshore of Asan point creating an inner reef flat platform. Date of construction is unknown, however, it was possibly built during the United States presence on Guam (between 1941-1970's). |
| 1944 AD | Built | A four-lane, 12 mile super highway with 9 bridges between Agana and Sumay is completed by U.S. Navy Seabees and U.S. Army Engineers. |
| 1944 AD | Built | American Seabees follow invasion troops ashore and immediately begin road construction. |
| 1944 AD | Colonized | United States declare sovereignty over Asan and Agat landing beaches and the entire Island of Guam. |
| 1944 AD | Destroyed | U.S. Navy Task Force 53 and 58 start intense preinvasion bombardment of Guam's landing beaches (Asan and Agat). Vegetation and existing buildings are destroyed. |
| 1944 AD | Destroyed | U. S. Navy demolition teams destroy 640 Japanese-built defense obstacles offshore of Asan Beach and 300 offshore of Agat Beach. |
| 1944 AD | Established | Forager - Phase I begins. 3rd Marine Division and 1st Provisional Marine Brigade invade and establish a foothold on Asan and Agat beaches. |
| 1944 AD | Explored | Submarines and long-range submarines begin photographing and conducting reconnaissance of Guam including both landing beaches (Asan and Agat). |
| 1944 AD | Moved | American units liberate large groups of Guamanians held in concentration camps. Guamanian relief camps were set up at Asan and Agat beaches. |
| 1944 AD | Planted | U.S. Navy conducts aerial seed dispersal of an introduced legume (tangen-tangen) to reduce soil erosion, especially on ridges such as the Asan Ridge. |
| 1944 AD | Removed | U.S. Army Engineers use outer edge of Asan Point to quarry limestone. |
| 1944 AD | Settled | Guamanians begin returning to their homes and ranches and rebuilding their villages. |
| 1965 AD | Built | A U.S. Navy hospital is built during the Vietnam War (ca. mid-1960's) on Asan Beach. Over 40 quanset huts were arranged in a semi-circular pattern with a concrete crescent-shaped drive. The existing entry road to Asan Beach Unit follows this same pattern. |
| 1975 AD | Abandoned | Vietnam refugee camp on Asan Beach is closed. |
| 1975 AD | Preserved | Agat Invasion Beach is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. |
| 1975 AD | Rehabilitated | An old Navy hospital building on Asan Beach is converted into a refugee camp in order to hold Vietnamese refugees. |
| 1978 AD | Preserved | War in the Pacific National Historical Park placed on the National Register of Historic Places. |
| 1979 AD | Preserved | Asan Invasion Beach listed on the National Register of Historic Places. |
| 1997 AD | Destroyed | Typhoon Paka, with winds up to 236 mph causes damage to Asan and Agat beaches, destroying sidewalks, vegetation, and altering the shoreline. |
| 2002 AD | Destroyed | Super-Typhoon Pongsona causes damage to Asan and Agat beaches, destroying facilities along the shoreline, vegetation, sidewalks, and roads and altering the shoreline. |
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