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Nelson (Māori: Whakatū) is a consolidated city and unitary authority on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay at the top of the South Island of New Zealand. It is the oldest city in the South Island and the second-oldest settled city in the country; it was established in 1841 and became a city by British royal charter in 1858. [3]
Christchurch became the first city in New Zealand by royal charter on 31 July 1856, and Henry Harper was consecrated by the archbishop of Canterbury as the local Anglican bishop. He arrived in Christchurch a few months later in December 1856. [66] [67] In 1862 the Christchurch City Council was established.
The council has been active since and is therefore the longest continuously operating city council in New Zealand. [9] [10] A legal oddity also provides Dunedin with a minor claim to being New Zealand's oldest city.
New Zealand's capital city from 1865 until the present day. [272] Auckland: Auckland Region New Zealand: 1840 AD New Zealand's capital city from 1841 to 1865. Prior to this, it was inhabited by Māori from about the 14th century. Dunedin: Otago Region New Zealand: 1848 AD First New Zealand centre to be officially named a city (1865).
Christchurch is a major city in the Canterbury Region, and is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand.With a Māori history stemming back to the thirteenth century as the domain of the historic Waitaha iwi, Christchurch was constituted as a colonial outpost of the British Empire in 1850.
A 2014 article in the Journal of Archaeological Science claimed to have found "New Zealand's oldest shipwreck" in Kaipara Harbour, which the authors dated to the late 17th or early 18th century using radiocarbon and dendrochronological techniques, and suggested the wreck was evidence of further Dutch exploration in the period between Tasman and ...
Soon after the discovery of gold inland from Dunedin in 1861 led to the new city becoming the New Zealand's main industrial and commercial centre. The University of Otago, the oldest university in New Zealand, was founded in Dunedin in 1869 also as a result of the Gold Rush. [6]
The University of Otago, the oldest university in New Zealand, in 1869. [43] Otago Girls' High School was established in 1871. New Zealand Insurance Co Ltd, Dunedin (built 1899) By 1874, Dunedin and its suburbs had become New Zealand's largest city with a population of 29,832 displacing Auckland's 27,840 residents to second place. [44]