1824 in New Zealand
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The following lists events that happened during 1824 in New Zealand.
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Incumbents
Regal and viceregal
- Head of State â King George IV
- Governor of New South Wales â Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane is recalled on 29 December but only leaves in December 1825[1] when his successor, General Ralph Darling, arrives. Darling is appointed this year but only arrives in New South Wales on 25 December 1825.
Events
- 3 April â George Clarke arrives in the Bay of Islands having taken passage from Sydney on board the French corvette La Coquille.[2][3] 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.
- 31 August - The Revd. Henry Williams lays the keel for the 55-ton schooner Herald,[4] the first sailing ship (schooner) built in New Zealand.[5]
- Undated
- George Clarke starts one of the first schools for MÄori children, at Kerikeri.[6]
- John Kelly marries (Mary) Hine-tuhawaiki and settles at Ruapuke Island.[2][7] Hine may have been a relative of TÅ«hawaiki 'Bloody Jack', later paramount chief of NgÄi Tahu, whose stronghold was on Ruapuke.[8]
- 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.[9][10][11]
Births
- 6 April (in England): George Waterhouse, 7th Premier of New Zealand.[12]
- 1 May (in Germany): Julius von Haast, geologist[13]
- 24 November (in England): Richard Barcham Shalders, founder of the YMCA in New Zealand.[14]
- c. 18 December (in England): John Hall, 12th Premier of New Zealand[15]
- 23 December (in England): Thomas Potts, naturalist.[16]
- Undated
- (in Ireland): Thomas Henry FitzGerald, politician.[17]
- (in Australia): Gabriel Read, gold prospector.[18]