Maori History By Lozza75 40,000 BCE Aborigines arrive in Australia Period: 1500 BCE to 1000 BCE 1000 BCE Lapita people spread across Polynesia 300 Polynesians settle the Marquesas and Hawaiian islands 700 Polynesians settle Easter Island 1000 Polynesians arrive in New Zealand Great fleet 1600 Moa Bird becomes extinct forcing Maori people to change their way of living 1769 Captain Cook arrives in New Zealand 1874 Fiji Becomes a British Colony 1976 1000 BCE Lapita people spread across Polynesia
