Canterbury history

By grace.daphne

  • Able Tasman becomes first European to find the North Island

  • Captain Cook mapped the whole of Aotearoa in series of 3 voyages, 1769-1777

  • First whaling ship in NZ

  • First europeans landed

  • New Zealand Company founded with aim to create English colonies in NZ

  • Treaty of Waitangi signed

  • Offical sanction gained and assocation of london notified

  • Settling of out of port town and surveying of the bridal path underway

  • Preperations underway forfull voyage to new zealand

  • The charlotte jane anchored at lyttleton

  • The randolph anchored in lyttleton

  • Sir george seymour anchored in lyttleton

  • The cressy arrived in lyttleton

  • women won the right to vote

  • Kate sheppard memorial and womens suffrage commemoration unvieled