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Auckland's first settlers Te Waiohua and Te Ahiwaru arrive at Ihumatao.
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One newspaper said the European residents of Auckland would have literally starved were it not for the produce that Maori provided them.
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1100 hectares of land at Ihumatao was confiscated by the Crown as punishment for the community's allegiance to the King Movement. Residents banished to the Waikato.
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Confiscated land was redistributed to a handful of European settlers. One of those was the Wallaces.
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Maori returned to Ihumatao in the 1890's to find their land occupied by Pakeha settlers.
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A small plot of 0.067 hectare was returned to iwi. Here they established a papakainga, a village of about 80 homes adjacent to the historic reserve.
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Two volcanic cones, Otuataua and Maungataketake were quarried in the 1950's to provide aggregate for the airport runway developments.
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In 1960 access to traditional fish and shellfish grounds was closed by the Auckland Drainage Board to build oxidation ponds around Puketutu Island for the city's new wastewater management system.
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In 2003 the oxidation ponds were removed. Efforts were made to rejuvenate the Oruarangi stream ecosystem.
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85-90 Koiwi (pre European skeletal remains of ancestors) were desecrated by excavations for a second runway which disturbed 600 year old burial sites.
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Land west of the airport was designated for Future Urban Use
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In 2013, freight company Jenners Worldwide spilled more than 1000 litres of methyl violet industrial dye into the stormwater system killing all life in the Oruarangi Creek.
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Auckland Council designated land at Ihumatao as Special Housing Area 62
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S.O.U.L. (Save Our Unique Landscape) was established to fight against the further loss of land and inappropriate development at Ihumatao
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The Wallace block was purchased by Fletcher Residential and a concept plan developed for the development of 480 new houses
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Gathering to celebrate Parihaka Day results in the start of an Encampment leading to the formation of the Kaitiaki village.
