1816 in New Zealand

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The following lists events that happened during 1816 in New Zealand.

Incumbents[]

Regal and viceregal[]

  • Head of State – King George III. With Prince George, Prince of Wales as Prince Regent.
  • Governor of New South Wales – Lachlan Macquarie

Events[]

  • 22 January – Large numbers of Māori from North Cape, Whangaroa and Thames visit the mission at Rangihoua.[1]
  • February – Thomas and Elizabeth Hansen arrive at Oihi, Rangihoua from Port Jackson on the Active. They are the first non-missionary European family to settle in New Zealand. They eventually raised 11 children who all lived to at least their late 60s.[2]
  • March – Tui and Tītore, who arrived the previous year, leave Port Jackson (Sydney) for England in HMS Kangaroo. While there they may have helped Professor Samuel Lee start his Maori dictionary.[1]
  • 16 August – Thomas Kendall starts the first school in New Zealand, at Rangihoua. The opening roll is 33.[3][4]

Births[]

Undated
  • William Daldy, politician[6]
  • (in England): Edward Dobson, Canterbury provincial engineer[7]
  • William Guyton, Mayor of Wellington[8]
  • John Wheeler King, the first European male born in New Zealand to reach adulthood[2]
  • Henry Tancred, politician[6]

Deaths[]

approximate
  • Charlotte Badger; one of the first two female settlers in New Zealand.[9]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b NZETC: Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century, 1816
  2. ^ a b "Hansen-King Family Tree". Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  3. ^ Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Thomas Kendall
  4. ^ New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Thomas Kendall Biography
  5. ^ Green, David (7 April 2006). "Chute, Trevor 1816 – 1886". Dictionary of New Zealand biography.
  6. ^ a b Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
  7. ^ "DOBSON BROTHERS, from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966". Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. 18 September 2007.
  8. ^ No Mean City by Stuart Perry (1969, Wellington City Council)
  9. ^ "Charlotte Badger". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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