1833 in New Zealand
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The following lists events that happened during 1833 in New Zealand.
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Incumbents
Regal and viceregal
Government and law
Events
- 10 May â James Busby arrives in the Bay of Islands on HMS Imogene.[1]
- 16 May â James Busby meets 22 leading chiefs at Paihia and reads them a message from King William IV.[1]
- October/November
- â Alfred Nesbitt Brown along with Henry Williams, John Morgan and William Fairburn visit the Thames Valley and reach Matamata.[2][3](see also 1834 & 1835)
- November/December
Undated
- The building of the house for James Busby is begun. After the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi there in 1840 it will be known as the Treaty House.
- The keystone above the door of the Stone Store in Kerikeri is carved.
- Late in the year[4] Louisa, daughter of John and Betty Guard, is born at Port Underwood. She is the first female European child born in the South Island.[5][6]
Births
- 1 January (in Scotland): Robert Lawson, architect.[7]
- 27 January (in Australia): William Larnach, businessman, politician.[8]
- 31 May (in Scotland): David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow, 14th Governor of New Zealand.[9]
- 14 September (in Scotland): John Bryce, politician.[10]
- 23 September (in England): William Hodgkins, artist and art historian.[11]
- 20 October (in England): Arthur Atkinson, politician.
- undated (in Hokitika): Richard Hobbs, politician.