# Canonical recap data for Samoan Crisis and Treaty (1899)
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slug: samoan-partition-treaty
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1899/samoan-partition-treaty"
title: Samoan Crisis and Treaty
subtitle: The partition of Samoa between Germany and the United States resolved a three-power colonial standoff and redefined Pacific imperial boundaries.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1899-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1899
decade: 1890
country:
name: Germany
slug: germany
summaryShort: The Samoan crisis was a standoff between the United States, the German Empire, and the British Empire from 1887 to 1889 over control of the Samoan Islands during the First Samoan Civil War.
summaryLong: The Samoan crisis was a standoff between the United States, the German Empire, and the British Empire from 1887 to 1889 over control of the Samoan Islands during the First Samoan Civil War.
heroImageUrl: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Samoan_crisis_map.jpg/1280px-Samoan_crisis_map.jpg"
heroImageCredit: Wikipedia · "Samoan crisis"
importance: 68
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoan_crisis"
  title: Samoan crisis
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- war
metaDescription: The Samoan crisis was a standoff between the United States, the German Empire, and the British Empire from 1887 to 1889 over control of the Samoan Islands durin
wikidataQid: Q16933070
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260609211922/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoan_crisis"
  capturedAt: 2026-06-09
  label: Samoan crisis
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoan_crisis"
