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25 September: Rev Marsden plants 100 vines, the first grapes grown in New Zealand. 4 November: Chiefs Hongi Hika and Rewa sell 13,000 acres (5260 hectares) at Kerikeri to the Church Missionary Society for 48 felling axes. 1820. 3 May: At Kerikeri, Reverend John Butler uses a plough for the first time in the country.
Increasingly, the treaty is recognised as a founding document in New Zealand's developing unwritten constitution. [15] [16] [17] The New Zealand Day Act 1973 established Waitangi Day as a national holiday to commemorate the signing of the treaty.
At first New Zealand was administered from Australia as part of the colony of New South Wales, and from 16 June 1840 New South Wales laws were deemed to operate in New Zealand. [53] This was a transitional arrangement, and the British Government issued the Charter for Erecting the Colony of New Zealand on 16 November 1840.
Fatal Success: A History of the New Zealand Company. Heinemann Reed. ISBN 0-7900-0011-3. Moon, Paul (2010). New Zealand Birth Certificates - 50 of New Zealand's Founding Documents. AUT Media. ISBN 9780958299718. Hamer, David Allen, ed. (1990). The Making of Wellington, 1800-1914. Victoria University of Wellington Press. ISBN 9780864732002.
It is one of the founding documents of New Zealand. [1] [2] It was preceded by the Declaration of Independence or He Whakaputanga signed in 1835, where some North Island Māori proclaimed the country of New Zealand to an international audience as an independent state with full sovereign power and authority held with Māori chiefs (rangatira).
Proclaimed the sovereign independence of New Zealand. The Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand (Māori: He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni), a document signed by a number of Māori chiefs in 1835, proclaimed the sovereign independence of New Zealand prior to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.
Waitangi Day (Māori: Te Rā o Waitangi), the national day of New Zealand, marks the anniversary of the initial signing—on 6 February 1840—of the Treaty of Waitangi.The Treaty of Waitangi was an agreement towards British sovereignty by representatives of the Crown and indigenous Māori chiefs, and so is regarded by many as the founding document of the nation.
Aotearoa New Zealand's histories. Aotearoa New Zealand's histories (ANZH) and Te Takanga o Te Wā are documents for use in English- and Maori - medium New Zealand curriculums from 2023 to guide the explicit and compulsory teaching about the country's history. Although the final documents, released in 2022, were part of reviews of the New ...