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New Zealand
 

New Zealand: Historical Dates

 

About ad 1200 The earliest known Maori villages were settled by this time.
1642 The Dutch navigator Abel Tasman sighted New Zealand.
1769 The English explorer James Cook circumnavigated New Zealand, proving that it was not part of Australia.
1791 British settlers from Australia established sealing and whaling stations in New Zealand.
1840-1841 The Treaty of Waitangi recognized New Zealand as a British colony. Auckland became the first capital.
1848-1850 European colonization of South Island began. Otago (modern Dunedin) and Canterbury (modern Christchurch) were founded.
1852 New Zealand's first constitution was signed, but the government it established was not implemented until 1856.
1860 Gold was discovered near present-day Dunedin. This and other gold deposits discovered in New Zealand during the 1860s attracted thousands of new settlers.
1865 The capital was moved to Wellington as a compromise between northern and southern government officials.
1860-1872 The New Zealand Wars matched British and Maori forces against Maori tribes wanting to restrict land sales to the government.
1882 New Zealand began shipping refrigerated agricultural products to Europe.
1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant women's suffrage.
1914-1918 New Zealand forces suffered heavy losses in Europe during World War I, but the war helped galvanize nationalism at home.
1939 New Zealand entered World War II against Germany. It joined the war against Japan two years later, and forces were active in all war theaters.
1951 New Zealand signed the ANZUS mutual-defense treaty with Australia and the United States.
1973 New Zealand's economy suffered greatly when its leading export market, Great Britain, joined the European Community (now the European Union).
1984 The government barred nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships from New Zealand ports.
1986 The United States suspends its defense obligations to New Zealand over the nuclear ban.
1993 New Zealand voters approved the replacement of a majority vote electoral system with one of proportional representation.
1997 Jenny Shipley became New Zealand's first woman prime minister.
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