• Wairau Affray

    22 Europeans got killed during the Wairau Affray.
  • Central Otago floods

    Twenty-five gold miners lost their life as flash floods raged along the Shotover River, north-east of Queenstown on July 1863.
  • Influenza

    The Epidemic killed over 50,000,000 people
  • Mt Tarawera

    The eruption caused massive destruction, it killed 120 people and destroyed many villages along with Pink and White Terraces
  • Gallipoli

    130,000 men died at gallipoli