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1800 in New Zealand

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Other events of 1800Timeline of New Zealand history

The only recorded ship visit is a 3-day visit to Hauraki (the Waihou River between the Hauraki Plains and Coromandel Peninsula) to collect timber. It is possible that sealers visit Dusky Sound and that whalers are off the north-east coast but no specific records of any such activity remains.

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Regal and viceregal

  • Head of State – King George III.
  • Governor of New South Wales – On 16 April Philip Gidley King arrives from England with the despatch recalling John Hunter. Hunter acknowledges the receipt of his recall on 20 April and leaves for England on 28 September when King formally takes office.

    • Events

  • March: HMS Reliance, Captain Henry Waterhouse, discovers and charts the Antipodes Islands.
  • 11 May: The Betsey, Captain John Myers, leaves Port Jackson for Peru. En route she visits Hauraki for three days to collect timber. On board are two pākehā women, the first to visit the North Island.
    • Undated
  • Samuel Marsden becomes the principal, and at the time only remaining, chaplain for New South Wales.

    • Births

  • 18 July (in England): William Williams, first Bishop of Waiapu.
  • 1 October (in England): James Reddy Clendon, settler and public official (died 1872)
    • approximate
  • c.1800 (in England): John Guard, whaler and trader, first permanent European resident in the South Island.

    • References

    1800 in New Zealand Wikipedia
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