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28 August – Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment (Ireland) Act 1860 ("Deasy's Land Act"), [2] intended to reform tenants' rights. September – Myles O'Reilly's "Battalion of St Patrick" assist in the unsuccessful defence of Spoleto against the Risorgimento. 3 November – The Catholic Ballaghaderreen Cathedral is consecrated and opened.
The New Zealand land confiscations took place during the 1860s to punish the Kīngitanga movement for attempting to set up an alternative Māori form of government that forbade the selling of land to European settlers. The confiscation law targeted Kīngitanga Māori against whom the government had waged war to restore the rule of British law.
The Waitangi Sheet of the Treaty of Waitangi. The Treaty of Waitangi was first signed on 6 February 1840 by representatives of the British Crown and Māori chiefs from the North Island of New Zealand, with a further 500 signatures added later that year, including some from the South Island.
Governor Thomas Gore Browne.. The catalyst for the war was the disputed sale of 600 acres (2.4 km 2) of land known as the Pekapeka block, or Teira's block, at Waitara.The block's location perfectly suited European settlers' wish for a township and port to serve the north of the Taranaki district and its sale was viewed as a likely precedent for other sales that would open up for settlement all ...
The effect was a creeping confiscation of almost a million acres (4,000 km 2) of land, with little distinction between the land of loyal or rebel Māori owners. [ 3 ] The Government's war policy was opposed by the British commander, General Duncan Cameron , who clashed with Governor Sir George Grey and offered his resignation in February 1865.
The most effective tactic of the Land League was the boycott (the word originates in Ireland in this period), where unpopular landlords were ostracised by the local community. Grassroots Land League members used violence against landlords and their property; [ 16 ] attempted evictions of tenant farmers regularly turned into armed confrontations.
The Native Land Court (later renamed the Māori Land Court) was established under the Native Lands Act 1865, which also finally abolished the Crown right to pre-emption. It was through this court that much Māori land was alienated, and the way in which it functioned is much criticised today. [156]
The Land Law (Ireland) Act 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 33) was Arthur Balfour's major Land Act, which came at the end of the 'Plan of Campaign' agitation. It provided £33,000,000 sterling for land purchase, but contained many complicated legal clauses, so that it was not put fully into effect until amended five years later.