1800 in New Zealand
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The only recorded ship visit is a 3 day visit to Hauraki (the Waihou River between the Hauraki Plains and Coromandel Peninsula) to collect timber. It is possible that sealers visit Dusky Sound and that whalers are off the north-east coast but no specific records of any such activity remains.[1]
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[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Regal and Vice Regal[2]
- Head of State – King George III.
- Governor of New South Wales – On 16 April Philip Gidley King arrives from England with the despatch recalling John Hunter. Hunter acknowledges the receipt of his recall on 20 April and leaves for England on 28 September when King formally takes office.[3][4]
[edit] Events
- March
- – HMS Reliance, Captain Henry Waterhouse, discovers and charts the Antipodes Islands.[1]
- 11 May – The Betsey, Captain John Myers, leaves Port Jackson for Peru. En route she visits Hauraki for three days to collect timber. On board are two pākehā women, the first to visit the North Island.[1]
[edit] Undated
- Samuel Marsden becomes the principal, and at the time only remaining, chaplain for New South Wales.[5][6]
[edit] Births
- 1 October - James Reddy Clendon (in England), settler and public official (d.1872) [7]
[edit] Deaths
[edit] See also
- List of years in New Zealand
- Timeline of New Zealand history
- History of New Zealand
- Military history of New Zealand
- Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand
- Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica
For world events and topics in 1800 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1800
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Salmond, Anne. Between Worlds. 1997. Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd. ISBN 0 670 87787 5.
- ^ The colony of New South Wales encompasses New Zealand from 1788 to 1840. Therefore the head of state is the monarch of the United Kingdom represented by the Governor of New South Wales. However, British sovereignty was not established over New Zealand per se until 1840, at which point the Treaty of Waitangi retroactively recognised that it had been an independent territory until then. Furthermore, the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand signed by a number of Maori chiefs in 1835 was formally recognised by the British government at the time, indicating that British sovereignty did not yet extend to New Zealand. (New Zealand Ministry of Culture and Heritage)
- ^ Dictionary of Australian Biography: Philip Gidley King
- ^ Dictionary of Australian Biography: John Hunter
- ^ New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Samuel Marsden Biography
- ^ Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Samuel Marsden
- ^ DNZB: James Reddy Clendon
