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Feb 8, 1000
Moa hunters arrive in Canterbury
"The hunters cleared large areas of mataī and tōtara forest by fire and by about 1450 the moa had been killed off."
http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/ti-kouka-whenua/tribal-history/
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Moa_mock_hunt.jpg -
Early European Contact
Captain James Cook first sights the Banks Peninsula https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Captain-James-Cook.jpg -
Local Maori populaton fell
Results of inter-tribal fighting and introduced European diseses -
Planning of the Canterbury settlement
John Robert Godley and Edward Gibbon Wakely meet to plan the Canterbury settlement "Wakefield believed that colonisation of countries like New Zealand could be organised in such a way that towns could be planned before settlers arrived." -
The boom years 57-64
Canterbury’s growing wealth and prosperity during the boom years of 1857-64 had a big effect on the city. More banks opened Christchurch branches (Bank of New South Wales in 1861, Bank of New Zealand in 1862, and the Bank of Australasia in 1864). -
First church in Christchurch
First church - later dedicated as St Michael and All Angels in 1859. -
municipal district
In 1862 Christchurch was made a municipal district, and John Hall elected the first chairman of the Municipal Council
