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1828 in New Zealand

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Other events of 1828Timeline of New Zealand history

Regal and viceregal

  • Head of State – King George IV
  • Governor of New South Wales – General Ralph Darling

    • Events

    3, 6 or 7 March - Ngāpuhi rangatira (chief) and war leader Hongi Hika dies at Whangaroa.

    Contents

    4 May - The 40-ton schooner Enterprise, the second sailing ship built in New Zealand, is wrecked in a storm north of the Hokianga, with the loss of all hands.

    6 May - The 55-ton schooner Herald, the first sailing ship built in New Zealand, is wreaked on the Hokianga bar, with no loss of life.

    Undated

    John Guard establishes a subsidiary whaling station at Kakapo Bay in Port Underwood. (see 1827)

    Phillip Tapsell sets up a flax trading post at Maketu.

    Whalers Dicky Barrett, Jacky Love and others establish a trading post at Ngamotu Beach, the first Europeans to settle in the New Plymouth area.

    Births

  • 15 February (in Prussia): Gustavus von Tempsky, adventurer, soldier and painter.
  • 23 March (in Scotland): Charles Gordon O'Neill, politician and philanthropist.
    • Undated
  • Thomas Gillies, politician.
    • Approximate
  • Tohu Kākahi, Māori prophet and pacifist leader.

    • Deaths

  • 3, 6 or 7 March (see above) Hongi Hika, New Zealand Chief (born 1772)
    • Undated
  • Te Whareumu, Ngati Manu chief.

    • References

    1828 in New Zealand Wikipedia
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