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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.
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 ...
Any reference to New Zealand in a legal rather than geographic sense before 1840 is complex and unclear. When the British colony of New South Wales was founded in 1788 it nominally included a claim to New Zealand as far as 43°39'S (approximately halfway down the South Island). In the years before 1800 there was little interest shown by ...
New Zealand Association formed in London, becoming the New Zealand Colonisation Society in 1838 and the New Zealand Company in 1839, under the inspiration of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. 1838. Bishop Pompallier founds Roman Catholic Mission at Hokianga. 1839. William Hobson instructed to establish British rule in New Zealand, as a dependency of New ...
A korao no New Zealand; or, the New Zealander's first book was written by missionary Thomas Kendall in 1815, and is the first book written in the Māori language. Contact with Europeans led to a sharing of concepts. The Māori language was first written down by Thomas Kendall in 1815, in A korao no New Zealand.
[50] [51]: pp 4-25 The 'understand' component centres around four big ideas: Māori history is the foundational and continuous history of Aotearoa New Zealand; colonisation and settlement have been central to Aotearoa New Zealand's histories for the past 200 years; the course of Aotearoa New Zealand's histories has been shaped by the use of ...
The New Zealand Wars took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial ... Before 1870, New Zealand was a ... For most of its history, New Zealand had ...
Many New Zealand species may have been heading for slow extinction after Polynesian settlement. [2] The extinction of the mega fauna (moa) seems to have occurred quickly, within 100 years. [43] The first settlers came to New Zealand from tropical Polynesia and adapted to a temperate environment while preserving many of their old practices.