1816 in New Zealand
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The following lists events that happened during 1816 in New Zealand.
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Incumbents
Regal and viceregal
Events
- 22 January â Large numbers of MÄori from North Cape, Whangaroa and Thames visit the mission at Rangihoua.[1]
- February â 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.[2]
- March â Tui and TÄ«tore, who arrived the previous year, leave Port Jackson (Sydney) for England in HMS Kangaroo. While there they may have helped Professor Samuel Lee start his Maori dictionary.[1]
- 16 August â Thomas Kendall starts the first school in New Zealand, at Rangihoua. The opening roll is 33.[3][4]
Births
- 31 July (in Ireland): Trevor Chute, leader of British forces in the Second Taranaki War.[5]
- Undated
- William Daldy, politician[6]
- (in England): Edward Dobson, Canterbury provincial engineer[7]
- William Guyton, Mayor of Wellington[8]
- John Wheeler King, the first European male born in New Zealand to reach adulthood[2]
- Henry Tancred, politician[6]
Deaths
- approximate
- Charlotte Badger; one of the first two female settlers in New Zealand.[9]