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Incumbents
Regal and Vice Regal
Events
- 25 March – The 1825 New Zealand Company vessels Rosanna, Captain James Herd, and Lambton, Captain Barnett, arrive in Stewart Island and undergo refitting for a month.[1]
- April or May – Thomas Shepherd, agricultural superintendent with the 1825 New Zealand Company expedition interviews James Caddell (see 1810). Location unknown, possibly Ruapuke Island or Bluff or Otago Harbour (see next entry).[2]
- May - Thomas Shepherd explores the future site of Dunedin and produces the oldest surviving drawings of Otago Harbour and surrounding coasts including Waikouaiti.
- - The Rosanna and the Lambton (see above) are the first European ships enter Wellington Harbour. Captain Herd names the harbour Port Nicholson after his friend John Nicholson, harbourmaster at Port Jackson (Sydney).[3][4]
- 23 September – The 1825 New Zealand Company agents aboard the Rosanna complete the purchase of 'Pakatu' (Pakatoa), 'Taratora' (Rotoroa), 'Ponue' (Ponui) and 'Pake' (Pakihi) Islands in the Hauraki Gulf. They then become frightened of the local Māori, change their minds almost immediately, sell up and leave for the Bay of Islands.[5]
Undated
- William Stewart establishes a timber, flax and trading settlement at Port Pegasus on Stewart Island.[6]
- The mission ship Herald, designed and built by Henry Williams and his lay assistant William Hall, is launched.[7]
- Reverend Henry Williams on the schooner Herald (Captain Gilbert Mair) is the first European to visit Tauranga.[8]
- William Williams, missionary brother of Henry Williams, arrives in the Bay of Islands on the Brampton with his wife and daughter.[9]
- Sealers visit Cloudy Bay and set up stations in Port Underwood. Whalers visit later the same year.[10][11]
- Jules Dumont d'Urville arrives in New Zealand on the Astrolabe during his circumnavigation. He charts much of New Zealand that Cook did not, in particular the Marlborough Sounds.[11] (see also 1827)
- A European trading and shipbuilding enterprise is established at Horeke in the Hokianga.[12]
References
- ^ New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: 1825 New Zealand Company
- ^ Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: James Caddell
- ^ Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 499.
- ^ New Zealand Encyclopaedia: Wellington
- ^ A Manukau Timeline
- ^ Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p.405.
- ^ Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 331
- ^ Tauranga History Timeline
- ^ Early European Visits to NZ
- ^ Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 67
- ^ a b Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 242
- ^ "Before 1840: sailors and missionaries". Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
Births
Deaths
See also
- List of years in New Zealand
- Timeline of New Zealand history
- History of New Zealand
- Military history of New Zealand
- Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand
- Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica
For world events and topics in 1826 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1826
