Early Canterbury

By summeranderson

  • North Island Discovered

    Abel Tasman discovers the North Island

  • Captain Cook maps Aotearoa

    Captain Cook mapped the whole of Aotearoa in 3 voyages. 1769-77

  • Banks Peninsula sighted

    Captain James Cook in his ship the Endeavour first sighted the Canterbury peninsula. He thought it was an island at first.

  • First set foot Banks Peninsula

    Sailors from the sealing ship Governor Bligh landed that Europeans first set foot on Banks Peninsula.

  • Port Cooper (Lyttelton Harbour) created

    In 1827 Captain William Wiseman, a flax trader, named the harbour in banks peninsula (now known as Lyttelton Harbour) Port Cooper,

  • English Colonies founded

    The New Zealand company founded to start english colonies in New Zealand

  • British raised in flag Akaroa

    Captain Owen Stanley of the Britomart raised the British flag at Akaroa, just before the arrival of sixty-three French colonists on the Comte de Paris.

  • Treaty of Waitangi

    Treaty of Waitangi was signed

  • Canterbury Association was formed

  • Kemp’s Deed

    Sixteen Ngāi Tahu chiefs signed ‘Kemp’s Deed’, selling the larger part of their land for £2,000, but keeping some land for settlements and reserves, and those places where they gathered food

  • First school opened in Lyttelton

  • Lytteltons first bank open

    Union Bank of Australia) opens in Lyttelton.

  • First drowning in the Avon

    Victim probably drunk

  • First Whaling Ship

  • Māori population starts to fall

    Due to European diseases, especially measles and influenza.