Canterbury's early history

By bethiskol
  • Feb 8, 1000

    First humans in NZ

  • Feb 8, 1450

    Moas hunted out

  • James Cook sights New Zealand

  • First Euuropeans set foot in Canterbury

    Sailers from the sealing ship Governer Bligh

  • First Whaling ship in Canterbury

    Captin George Hempleton se up a whaling station on peraki

  • Treaty of Waitangi signed

  • First attept at settlement on the canterbury plains

    Made by James Herrriot of Sydney, He arrivied with two other groups of farmers. They were succesful to start but their crop was envaded by rodents

  • First house on the Canterbury Plains

    In Riccaton the Deans brothers built a wooden house

  • First European child born in Canterbury

    Jeannine Manson was born in Riccaton

  • Canterbury Association formed

    it was decided to name the capital city Christchurch after the college John Godley a planer of the canterbury settlement, had gone to at Oxford University.

  • Land brought for the Canterbury settlement

    Governer Grey sent the land commissioner Henry Kemp to the south Island to buy land for the canterbury from the Ngai Tahu tribe. This is known as Kemp's deeed

  • First 4 ships

  • Christchurch becomes first nz city under royal charter

    Christchurch was called this because it was a seat for a bishop

  • Work on Lyttleton tunnel begins

  • hooping cough epidemic

    This epidemic killed 152 people and ended in 1875 after going on for 3 years

  • Canterbury celebrates its jubilee

    50 years of glorious christchurch

  • Cashmere High school opens in south christchurch

    CAshmere high school opens with 198 students due to population rise in christchurch's south end