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Polynesians discover NZ and move in. The exact date is unknown
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A brief encounter/mapping of NZ. Tasman's crew did not land onshore.
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Captain James Cook arrives. He properly mapped NZ and made 3 subsequent trips
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Sealers and Whalers set up outposts in NZ.
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Te Pahi goes to Sydney, staying with the British
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The conflict between the Maori and the Pakeha.
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A Christian mission was established, British would try to set up a Christian society in New Zealand
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The Napoleonic series of wars are over.
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The document with four articles said that mana and sovereign power in New Zealand lived fully with Māori
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The New Zealand Company's ship, led by William Wakefield
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22 settlers were killed in the Wairau Valley in June 1843, Governor Robert FitzRoy decided that Ngāti Toa had been provoked by the unreasonable actions of the Europeans.
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The Northern War was the first serious challenge to the Crown in the years after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. Led to the New Zealand Wars
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A fight broke out between 400 imperial, colonial and kūpapa (Māori fighting alongside the government) forces and several hundred Ngāti Toa led by Te Rangihaeata.
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The Indians didn't like the British ruling over them, and fear of Westernization. Huge impact on the British empire
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In 1859 the minor Te Ātiawa chief Te Teira Manuka offered to sell land at Waitara in north Taranaki to the Crown, Who accepted. However, a more senior chief, denied that Teira had the right to sell the Waitara land, and war broke out there in March 1860
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After fighting broke out again in Taranaki in early 1863, Governor George Grey turned his attention to the region he saw as the root of his problems with Māori: Waikato, the heartland of the anti-landselling King Movement. Grey vowed to ‘dig around’ the Kīngitanga until it fell.