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Confederacy of Independent Kingdoms of Viti

Short-lived confederation of seven Fijian kingdoms (1865-1867) chaired by Cakobau; collapsed due to Tongan prince Ma'afu's opposition, splitting into Kingdom of Bau and Confederation of Lau.

Collapsed in 1867 when opposition from Tongan prince Ma'afu caused it to split into the Kingdom of Bau under Cakobau and the Confederation of Lau under Ma'afu, ending the unified Confederacy of Independent Kingdoms of Viti established at Levuka in 1865.

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Further reading

• A History of Fiji R. A. Derrick · 1946

  Standard authoritative history of Fiji covering the 1865 Confederacy of Independent Kingdoms of Viti directly; confirmed via Internet Archive, AbeBooks, Amazon, and Google Books.

• Ma'afu, Prince of Tonga, Chief of Fiji: The Life and Times of Fiji's First Tui Lau John Spurway · 2015

  Biography of Ma'afu whose opposition broke up the 1865 Confederacy; covers the 1865-1874 period of Fijian confederation politics in detail. Confirmed via ANU Press, Amazon (ISBN 9781925021172), WorldCat, and JSTOR.

• A History of the Pacific Islands Steven Roger Fischer · 2013

  A single-volume history of the island Pacific — broad context for this polity.

Sources

• History of Fiji / Seru Epenisa Cakobau — Wikipedia; Fijian Confederacy 1865 — OmniAtlas (via WebSearch 2026-06-25) [roster-stage: geometry pending]