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The New Zealand Wars were previously referred to as the Land Wars or the Māori Wars, [6] and an earlier Māori-language name for the conflict was Te riri Pākehā ("the white man's anger"). [6] Historian James Belich popularised the name "New Zealand Wars" in the 1980s, [ 16 ] although according to Vincent O'Malley , the term was first used by ...
The mid-19th century was marked by the New Zealand Wars, a series of confrontations from 1845 to 1872 between various Māori groups and British colonial forces, along with their Māori allies, primarily over land disputes and sovereignty.
End of New Zealand Wars; Territory ceded by Māori iwi ~60 killed Second Boer War (1899–1902) The first contingent of New Zealand soldiers embarking for South Africa, October 1899. British Empire United Kingdom Canada Australia Colony of New Zealand India Ceylon; Cape Colony; Natal Colony; Rhodesia Orange Free State South African Republic ...
East Cape War Part of the New Zealand Wars: Government of New Zealand. British Settlers Māori Kupapa. Hau-Hauist Māori 1865 1868 Russo-Bukharan Wars Russian Empire: Emirate of Bukhara: 1865 1890 Haw wars: Kingdom of Siam: Haw rebels 1866 1866 Second Chōshū expedition Summer War: Choshu Domain: Tokugawa Shogunate. Aizu Domain 1866 1866 ...
19th century pre-1839 [ edit ] c. 1807: The Battle of Hingakaka (sometimes called Hiringakaka ) was fought between two Māori armies, an allied southern North Island army and a Tainui alliance army, near Ōhaupō in the Waikato , and was reputedly "the largest battle ever fought on New Zealand soil" [ 8 ] – so many chiefs died that it is ...
The battle of Moremonui (Māori: Te Haenga o te One, lit. 'The Marking of the Sand', or Te Kai-a-te-Karoro, lit. ' The Seagulls' Feast ' [2]) was fought between Ngāti Whātua and Ngāpuhi, two Māori iwi (tribes), in northern New Zealand in 1807 or 1808. [3]
The invasion of the Waikato became the largest and most important campaign of the 19th-century New Zealand Wars. Hostilities took place in the North Island of New Zealand between the military forces of the colonial government and a federation of Māori tribes known as the Kingitanga Movement. [2]
The 1960s was a decade of rising prosperity for most New Zealanders, but from 1965 there were also protests – in support of women's rights and the nascent ecological movement, and against the Vietnam War. [175] New Zealand's involvement in the Vietnam War signalled a major breakaway from British influence even though it was brought about ...