Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Tafiyar: 'Yan Britaniya sun isa Tonga a ƙarshen ƙarni na 18, sa'ad da Kyaftin James Cook ya ziyarci tsibiran sau uku tsakanin shekara ta 1773 da 1777. Wajen shekara hamsin bayan haka, 'yan mishan na Wesley na Ingila suka zo Tonga kuma suka soma juyar da mazaunan tsibirin zuwa Kiristanci. A cikin 1831, sun yi nasarar jujjuya "babban shugaba" Taufa'ahau Tupou, wanda ya zama Sarki George Tupou I a 1845. A wannan lokacin ne (kimanin 1840s) aka fara amfani da tutar Tonga ta farko. Ya kunshi fararen fili tare da giciye (ko dai ja ko shuɗi a launi) a kusurwa huɗu, da haruffa "A" (a ja) da "M" (a shuɗi) a tsakiya waɗanda ke alamta sarki. Bayan hawansa zuwa kursiyin, sarki ya nemi tsara sabon tuta ga al'umma, wanda zai wakilci Kiristanci. Ya yi abokantaka da Shirley Waldemar Baker <unk> memba na ofishin jakadancin Tonga na Burtaniya wanda daga baya ya zama Firayim Ministan Tonga <unk> kuma sun yi aiki tare don tsara sabon tuta, rigar makamai da taken kasa don Tonga. Sabuwar ƙirar ta yi kama da Red Ensign na Burtaniya, a cikin kashi uku cikin huɗu na shi ya ƙunshi filin ja mai sauƙi, tare da "canon na musamman" wanda aka nuna a ɓangaren sama na sama; an fara amfani da wannan a cikin 1866. An tsara sabon kundin tsarin mulki na masarautar kuma aka ayyana shi a ranar 4 ga Nuwamba, 1875. Ya "rubuta" sabon ƙirar tutar, kuma yana nuna lokacin da aka karɓa a matsayin tutar ƙasa. A karkashin Mataki na 47 na Kundin Tsarin Mulki, ba za a iya canza tutar ba "kuma" koyaushe za ta kasance tutar "Tonga.  Tambaya: Yaushe ne Sarkin ya soma sarauta?
Shekaru 1845