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1836 in New Zealand

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Decades:
  
1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s

See also:
  
Other events of 1836 Timeline of New Zealand history

Regal and viceregal

  • Head of State – King William IV
  • Governor of New South Wales – Major-General Sir Richard Bourke

    • Government and law

  • British Resident in New Zealand – James Busby
  • Additional British Resident in New Zealand – Thomas McDonnell until his resignation in July.

    • Events

  • July
  • – Additional British Resident in New Zealand, Thomas McDonnell resigns.
  • 26 December – John Hughes, W.I. Haberfield and others from the Weller brothers whaling station at Otakou arrive in the Magnet and set up a whaling station on the north side of Moeraki Point.
    • Undated
  • Captain John Howell is sent by whaler and merchant Johnny Jones to establish a whaling station at Riverton to replace that recently abandoned at Preservation Inlet. (see also 1829 and 1835)
  • The Stone Store at Kerikeri, the oldest stone building in New Zealand, is completed mid-year.
  • Late in the year Alfred Nesbitt Brown closes the mission at Matamata. (see also 1835 & 1838)

    • Births

  • 14 January (in England): Thomas Hocken, collector and bibliographer.
    • Unknown date

    (in Ireland) Richard Reeves, politician.

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    1836 in New Zealand Wikipedia
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