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Regal and viceregal
Head of State – King George IV
Governor of New South Wales – Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane is recalled on 29 December but only leaves in December 1825 when his successor, General Ralph Darling, arrives. Darling is appointed this year but only arrives in New South Wales on 25 December 1825.
3 April – George Clarke arrives in the Bay of Islands having taken passage from Sydney on board the French corvette La Coquille. La Coquille is commanded by Louis Isidore Duperrey, with Jules Dumont d'Urville as second-in-command, and will go on to complete a global circumnavigation.
Undated
George Clarke starts one of the first schools for Māori children, at Kerikeri.
John Kelly marries (Mary) Hine-tuhawaiki and settles at Ruapuke Island. Hine may have been a relative of Tuhawaiki ’Bloody Jack’, later paramount chief of Ngai Tahu, whose stronghold was on Ruapuke.
James Spencer sets up a trading post for whalers visiting Foveaux Strait at Bluff which is claimed to be the earliest permanent European settlement which will later grow into a town.
6 April (in England): George Waterhouse, 7th Premier of New Zealand.
1 May (in Germany): Julius von Haast, geologist
24 November (in England): Richard Barcham Shalders, founder of the YMCA in New Zealand.
c. 18 December (in England): John Hall, 12th Premier of New Zealand
23 December (in England): Thomas Potts, naturalist.
Undated
(in Ireland): Thomas Henry FitzGerald, politician.
(in Australia): Gabriel Read, gold prospector.
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