Early New Zealand Timeline

By kmb94

  • Tasman visits New Zealand

  • Period: to

    New Zealand History

  • Cook's first visit to New Zealand

  • Hunters start hunting whales in the Pacific

  • First sealing gang landed

  • Massacre of the crew of 'The Boyd'

  • Samual Marsden lands to set up the first Anglican Mission

  • Death of Hongi Hika

  • Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi

  • Auckaland becomes the capital of New Zealand