Timeline of important impacts on New Zealand culture

By solar

  • James Cook

    Cook initiates European-Maori interaction after Abel Tasman

  • Hongi Hika

    Te Ika-a-ranga-nui
    (The battle to settle utu with Ngati Whatua)

  • Edward Wakefield

    Edward and William Wakefield purchased land ahead of settlers and set out to colonise Port Nicholson (Wellington)

  • Governor Grey

    Becomes governor of New Zealand

  • Te Whiti

    Helped save the crew and passengers of a wrecked pakeha ship

  • Rua Kenana

    Built new religious community at the foot of Maungapōhatu

  • Michael Joseph Savage

    Elected Prime Minister of New Zealand

  • Maori Battalion

    Formed

  • Charles Upham

    Earned his second Victoria's cross

  • Norman Kirk

    Elected Prime Minister of New Zealand

  • Robert Muldoon

    Elected Prime Minister of New Zealand

  • Whina Cooper

    Initiated land march protesting for loss of maori land

  • Neil Finn

    I Got You,
    Split enz’s most commercially successful song

  • David Lange

    Televised debate in Oxford union against nuclear weaponry

  • Helen Clark

    Elected Prime Minister of New Zealand