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Historical Timeline for New Zealand - A chronology of key events
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Interesting Facts about New Zealand[edit | edit source]

  • Country : NEW ZEALAND ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ
  • Capital: Wellington
  • Continent: Oceania
  • Currency: New Zealand Dollar
  • Official Language: English, Maori, and Sign Language

1. New Zealand became the first country to give women the right to vote in 1893.

2. During New Zealandโ€™s spring and summer months, it gets to be the first country to see the sunrise.

3. New Zealand is the second-largest producer of wool in the world.

4. Baldwin Street- is the steepest residential street in the world.

5. Blue Lake in Nelson Lakes National Park has the cleanest water in the world.

6. New Zealand is home to the smallest dolphin species on earth.

7. New Zealanders are also being called "Kiwis" The name derives from the kiwi, a flightless bird, which is a national symbol of New Zealand.

8. The Nevis Bungy is the third highest bungy jump in the world.

9. About one-third of the country is protected national parks.

10. There are 50 volcanic cones in and around Auckland. The most prominent one is Mount Rangitoto.

11. The biggest one-day yachting event in the world takes place in New Zealand.

12. Movie : Lord of the Rings was shooted in New Zealand (Matamata in Waikato district).

13. New Zealand is the least corrupt nation in the world.

14. The kea, a bird originally from New Zealand, is known for pulling windshield wipers from cars and eating rubber strips from windows.

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New Zealand Timeline[edit | edit source]

Date Event
650 First traces of Polynesian occupation.
925 Official discovery of New Zealand by Kupe, Polynesian navigator.
1300 Colonization of the islands by the Polynesians.

The arrival of Europeans[edit | edit source]

1642 Discovery of New Zealand by the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman.
1769 Arrival of the exploration mission led by James Cook aboard the Endeavor.
1773 James Cook's second voyage.
1790 Beginning of the whale and fur seal trade and logging.
1814 Arrival of the first missionaries, including Samuel Marsden. The first Anglican mission is established. Introduction of the first sheep, cattle, horses and poultry.
1818 The Musket Wars, intertribal struggles, partly due to the acquisition of muskets, shake the country.
1833 James Busby arrives in the Bay of Islands.
1835 James Busby learns that the French wish to declare the sovereignty of the country. He began to draft New Zealand's Declaration of Independence and had it ratified by 35 Maori chiefs. The latter thus submit to Queen Victoria, who in return guarantees them
1839 Creation of the New Zealand Company under the inspiration of Edward Gibbon Wakefield.

A territory in conflict[edit | edit source]

1840 French settlers land in Akaroa. Treaty of Waitangi, annexation of New Zealand to the British crown.
1841 Auckland becomes the capital. Around 1845, the Maoris were the first exporters of goods (fish, kumara) from Moeraki to Australia on charter boats.
1860 Maori wars until 1870.
1861 Beginning of the gold rush.
1865 Wellington, more central, replaces Auckland as the capital.
1870 First rugby match.

Economic development[edit | edit source]

1879 Voting rights granted to the natives.
1887 Creation of the first national park, Tongariro. Reefton is the first town to have electricity.
1893 Voting rights granted to women.
1894 First ascent of Mount Cook by Clark, Fyfe and Graham. Mahuta Tawhiao Potatau Te Wherowhero (Potatau II) becomes king of the Maori.
1907 New Zealand becomes a dominion.
1908 The native of the country, Ernest Rutherford, considered the father of nuclear physics, wins the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work.

Emancipation and expansion[edit | edit source]

1914-1918 A contingent leaves for Europe; very few soldiers come back.
1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
1939-1945 New Zealand is involved in the South Pacific War.
1945 New Zealand ratifies the United Nations Charter.
1947 Independence of New Zealand.
1953 Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first to successfully climb Mount Everest.
1958 Sir Edmund Hillary reaches the South Pole by land.
1961 Abolition of the death penalty.
1962 Maurice Wilkins obtains the Nobel Prize for medicine by discovering DNA.
1965 Sending troops to Vietnam.
1973 New Zealand joins the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
1979 An Air New Zealand plane crashes into the Mount Erebus in Antarctica with 257 passengers on board.
1985 Sabotage of Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior by the French secret services.
1987 Maori is declared an official language by law.
1993 The proportional elections are introduced.
1995 Moratorium on French nuclear tests at Mururoa. The New Zealand boycott of French products ends.
1997 Jenny Shipley is the first female Prime Minister.
1999 Following the legislative elections, Helen Clark becomes Prime Minister.
2000 New Zealand is the first country in the world to dive into the second millennium.
2001 Assassination of Peter Blake by pirates while researching in the Amazon. The first film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy (Peter Jackson) is released.
2002 Fourteenth national park, Rakiura, established on Stewart Island. Helen Clark wins the election against opposition leader Bill English (National Party) and doubles her term as Prime Minister.
2005 All couples, heterosexual and homosexual, have the right to register under the status of civil union. This status guarantees them the same rights as married couples.
2007 The national rugby team, the All Blacks, lost in the quarter-finals against the French at the World Cup in Cardiff.
2008 An agreement was signed in the Wellington Parliament returning to seven Maori tribes 176,000 hectares of forest in the center of the North Island.
2011 On February 22, an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale kills more than 180 and completely destroys downtown Christchurch.
2011 New Zealand organizes the 7th Rugby World Cup. Once again France is opposed to New Zealand in the final. It is the latter who wins by a score of 8-7.
2012-2013 Peter Jackson presents his second trilogy, The Hobbit, filmed in New Zealand.
2015-2016 Debate then referendum on the adoption of a new flag, adoption rejected by 56.6%.
2016 A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand on Sunday, November 13, triggering a tsunami and killing several people. The epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km east of Christchurch on the South Island. The whole region is affected, severely destroying ro
2018 On August 6, New Zealand passed a law prohibiting foreigners from accessing real estate. The legislation has some exceptions: only foreigners with resident status, Australians and Singaporeans, will be able to continue to invest.

Source[edit | edit source]

World Timelines[edit source]

Videos[edit | edit source]

First People In New Zealand // Maori History Documentary - YouTube[edit | edit source]

Mฤori: The Maori People: Polynesian - New Zealand - History ...[edit | edit source]

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