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Other events of 1816
Timeline of New Zealand history |
Regal and viceregal
Head of State – King George III. With Prince George, Prince of Wales as Prince Regent.
Governor of New South Wales – Lachlan Macquarie
22 January – Large numbers of Māori from North Cape, Whangaroa and Thames visit the mission at Rangihoua.
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.
March – Tui and Titore (see 1815) leave Port Jackson (Sydney) for England in HMS Kangaroo. While there they may have helped Professor Samuel Lee start his Maori dictionary.
16 August – Thomas Kendall starts the first school in New Zealand, at Rangihoua. The opening roll is 33.
31 July (in Ireland): Trevor Chute, leader of British forces in the Second Taranaki War.
Undated
William Daldy, politician
(in England): Edward Dobson, Canterbury provincial engineer
William Guyton, Mayor of Wellington
John Wheeler King, the first European male born in New Zealand to reach adulthood
Henry Tancred, politician
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Charlotte Badger; one of the first two female settlers in New Zealand.
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