when did the french begin to colonise this place?
24 September 1853
New Caledonia
On 24 September 1853, under orders from Emperor Napoleon III, Admiral Febvrier Despointes took formal possession of New Caledonia. 
which countries were affected by the spanish flu United States, France (Brest), Germany and the United Kingdom. it was caused by which virus? H1N1 influenza A virus where was it observed for the first time? United States (in Fort Riley, Haskell County, Kansas as well as in New York City), France (Brest), to name a few. did climate play a role in its origin or transmission? UNANSWERABLE can you name some regions which were not affected severely? In the Pacific, American Samoa and the French colony of New Caledonia, Australia, Iceland, to name some. is the colony you just mentioned still under french rule? In 1946, New Caledonia became an overseas territory. By 1953, French citizenship had been granted to all New Caledonians, regardless of ethnicity.
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New Caledonia [SEP] French dependency
On 24 September 1853, under orders from Emperor Napoleon III, Admiral Febvrier Despointes took formal possession of New Caledonia. Captain Louis-Marie-François Tardy de Montravel founded Port-de-France (Nouméa) on 25 June 1854. A few dozen free settlers settled on the west coast in the following years. New Caledonia became a penal colony in 1864, and from the 1860s until the end of the transportations in 1897, France sent about 22,000 criminals and political prisoners to New Caledonia. The "Bulletin de la Société générale des prisons" for 1888 indicates that 10,428 convicts, including 2,329 freed ones, were on the island as of 1 May 1888, by far the largest number of convicts detained in French overseas penitentiaries.