Bullock team wool wagon

History of Canterbury

By boomerang
  • Jan 1, 1000

    The first humans

    The first Humans arrived in Canterbury

  • Captain Cook finds the south island

    James Cook sighted the south island in his ship the Endeavour

  • European settlement began

    The first European settlements started to come to Canterbury

  • John and Edward met to plan a Canterbury settlement.

    John Robert Godley and Edward Gibbon Wakefield met to plan the Canterbury settlement.

  • First school

    The first school opened in Lyttelton by Henry Jacobs

  • Earthquakes

    A magnitude 6.3 earthquake happens in Christchurch causing damage and 184 deaths.