cailean's treeeeeeeeee By rivec Period: Jun 16, 1900 to Jun 16, 2013 Family History Jan 22, 1901 Death of Queen Victoria Jan 1, 1902 The Boer war Ends Jan 1, 1905 1st All- Blacks Team Jan 1, 1907 NZ Became a Domanion Jan 1, 1911 Ernest Rutherford identifies atomic structure Jan 1, 1913 Waterfront strikes Aukland and Wellington Jan 1, 1914 NZ Troops occupy Samoa WWI Apr 25, 1915 Gallipoli Campaign Jan 1, 1916 Battle Of The Somme (WWI) Jan 1, 1917 Russian Revolution Jan 1, 1918 End Of WWI Spanish Flu Epidemic Jan 1, 1919 NZ Women eligible For election to Parliment Jan 1, 1920 ANZAC Day Established. NZ governs Samoa. Jan 1, 1929 Beginning of Great Depression Jan 1, 1932 Unemployed riots in Aukland, Dunedin and Christchurch Jan 1, 1935 First NZ Labour Government Jan 1, 1936 Spanish civil war (1936- 1939) Jan 1, 1937 Japanese invasion of China Free milk in schools introduced Jan 1, 1939 Beginning WWII Maori Battalion formed Jan 1, 1940 Germany invades France, Battle of Britain. NZ troops arrive in Egypt Jan 1, 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbour. Heavy NZ losses in Battle of Crete.