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The human history of New Zealand can be dated back to between 1320 and 1350 CE, ... Scottish Highland family migrating to New Zealand, 1844, by William Allsworth.
New Zealand troops join multi-national force in the Gulf War. An avalanche on Aoraki / Mount Cook reduces its height by 10.5 metres. 1992. Government and Māori interests negotiate Sealord fisheries deal. Public health system reforms. State housing commercialised. New Zealand gets seat on United Nations Security Council.
Elizabeth McHutcheson Sinclair (26 April 1800 – 16 October 1892) was a Scottish homemaker, farmer, and plantation owner in New Zealand and Hawaii, best known as the matriarch of the Sinclair family that bought the Hawaiian island of Niʻihau in 1864.
Applied Behavioural Science, University of Auckland. Auckland, New Zealand. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ; Russell, K. (2004). Hui: A hui to discuss how to create and maintain a relationship with Māori organisations. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Community and Family Studies, University of Otago.
The first member of the Royal Family to visit New Zealand was Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. Subsequently, there have been over 50 visits. The first reigning monarch of New Zealand to visit the country was Elizabeth II in 1953–54. In all, she visited New Zealand on 10 occasions, most recently in 2002.
Yet the New Zealand Company's survey ship Tory had sailed from Plymouth on 12 May 1839, before Langlois and his associates had made their first approach to the French government, and as early as June the British Government was considering sending Captain William Hobson to act as Lieutenant-Governor over such parts of New Zealand as might be ...
The first Christian mission is established at Rangihoua. The Hansen family, the first non-missionary family also settles there. Samuel Marsden explores the Hauraki Gulf and travels to within sight of Tauranga Harbour. The first book in Māori is published in Sydney. The first European is born in New Zealand.
The French were among the earlier European settlers in New Zealand, and established a colony at Akaroa in the South Island. [ 2 ] Captain Jean-François-Marie de Surville is the first known Frenchman to have visited New Zealand, [ 3 ] in 1769, and by the 1830s, French whalers were operating off the Banks Peninsula .