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Kupe finds New Zealand and is the first Maori to find the island.
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The waka Takitimu arrives at Tauranga and built a pa at Maungatawa. They were known as Ngti Ranginui
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The Maori spread out around New Zealand and form their iwis
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The first European steps onto New Zealand
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Captain Cook sighted New Zealand, and mapped the coastline.
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Samuel Marsden saw Tauranga from somewhere near Waihi. He was the first European to sight Tauranga
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The Maori iwi go to war with muskets
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The Treaty of Waitangi was signed
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The Maori land wars begun when the Colonial government sold Maori land, ignoring the Treaty of Waitangi, because they wanted to build houses on the claimed land.
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An epidemic of something called rewha-rewha (maybe the flu) kills over 60% of the Maori in the bottom of the north island
