1816 in New Zealand

The following lists events that happened during 1816 in New Zealand.

1816
in
New Zealand

Decades:
  • 1790s
  • 1800s
  • 1810s
  • 1820s
  • 1830s
See also:

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

Events

  • 22 January – Large numbers of Māori from North Cape, Whangaroa and Thames visit the mission at Rangihoua.[1]
  • February – Thomas and Elizabeth Hansen arrive at Oihi, Rangihoua from Port Jackson on the Active. They are the first non-missionary European family to settle in New Zealand. They eventually raised 11 children who all lived to at least their late 60s.[2]
  • March – Tui and Tītore, who arrived the previous year, leave Port Jackson (Sydney) for England in HMS Kangaroo. While there they may have helped Professor Samuel Lee start his Maori dictionary.[1]
  • 16 August – Thomas Kendall starts the first school in New Zealand, at Rangihoua. The opening roll is 33.[3][4]

Births

Undated

Deaths

approximate

See also

References

  1. NZETC: Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century, 1816
  2. "Hansen-King Family Tree". Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  3. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Thomas Kendall
  4. New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Thomas Kendall Biography
  5. Green, David (7 April 2006). "Chute, Trevor 1816 – 1886". Dictionary of New Zealand biography.
  6. Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
  7. "DOBSON BROTHERS, from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966". Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. 18 September 2007.
  8. No Mean City by Stuart Perry (1969, Wellington City Council)
  9. "Charlotte Badger". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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