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Abel Tasman is a Dutch navigator, the first European who recorded New Zealand.
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James Cook explored the coastline from the end of the 18th to the beginning of 19th centuries.
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Constitutional government's developpement began.
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Woman could vote in national elections.
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A peace treaty was signed between United Stated, Australian and New Zealand.
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Anti-nuclear policy of the New Zealand government is incompatible with Americans. So New zealand elected Labour party which controled New Zealand ports.
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New Zealand's security obligations of the treaty were suspend by the United States.
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Bush announced that surface ships don't normally carry nuclear weapons. So the security alliance stay between the two.
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The New Zealand created a mixed-member proportional system to elect its Parliament (in the National Party) and help smaller parties.
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Labour was again successful with Jim Anderson's Prgressive Coalition, a leftwing party which have two seats in Parliament.