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People: Louis XV of France
Topic: Paraguayan War (López War or War of the Triple Alliance)

New Caledonia becomes a penal colony in …

Years: 1864 - 1875

New Caledonia becomes a penal colony in 1864, and from the 1860s until the end of the transportations in 1897, France will send about twenty-two thousand criminals and political prisoners to New Caledonia.