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New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers was a weekly television programme first shown on Prime Television New Zealand on 6 October 2005. 430 notable New Zealanders were ranked by a panel to determine the 100 most influential in New Zealand history.
New Zealand Listener Power List; New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers; Notable Alumni of St Peter's College, Auckland; List of former staff of St Peter's College, Auckland; List of people on stamps of New Zealand; List of South Islanders; List of people by nationality; List of New Zealand suffragists
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. [68] This was a transitional arrangement, and the British Government issued the Charter for Erecting the Colony of New Zealand on 16 November 1840.
The following is a list of New Zealand inventors and inventions. Godfrey Bowen – developer of an improved sheep-shearing technique [1] John Britten – designer of the Britten motorcycle [2] Thomas Brydone and William Soltau Davidson – refrigerated shipping pioneers [3] Morton Coutts – invented the continuous fermentation method of ...
Also: New Zealand: People: By occupation: Academics / Non-fiction writers: Historians Subcategories This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total.
2.3 Historical figures. 3 Government and politics. Toggle Government and politics subsection. ... Timeline of New Zealand history; Natural history of New Zealand;
The first edition was edited by the journalist and historian Guy Scholefield in association with Emil Schwabe. This was the first of a series of publications containing biographies compiled and edited by Scholefield, and it formed the basis for his later book Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, published in two volumes in 1940.
Michael King wrote in his history of New Zealand, "Despite a plethora of amateur theories about Melanesian, South American, Egyptian, Phoenician and Celtic colonisation of New Zealand, there is not a shred of evidence that the first human settlers were anything other than Polynesian", [4] and Richard Hill, professor of New Zealand Studies at ...