1816 in New Zealand

The following lists events that happened during 1816 in New Zealand.

← 1815 1814 1813 1816 in New Zealand → 1817 1818 1819
Decades:	1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s
See also:	Other events of 1816 Timeline of New Zealand history

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

• Head of State – King George III. With Prince George, Prince of Wales as Prince Regent.
• Governor of New South Wales – Lachlan Macquarie

Events

• 22 January – Large numbers of Māori from North Cape, Whangaroa and Thames visit the mission at Rangihoua.[1]
• February – Thomas and Elizabeth Hansen arrive at Oihi, Rangihoua from Port Jackson on the Active. They are the first non-missionary European family to settle in New Zealand. They eventually raised 11 children who all lived to at least their late 60s.[2]
• March – Tui and Tītore, who arrived the previous year, leave Port Jackson (Sydney) for England in HMS Kangaroo. While there they may have helped Professor Samuel Lee start his Maori dictionary.[1]
• 16 August – Thomas Kendall starts the first school in New Zealand, at Rangihoua. The opening roll is 33.[3][4]

Births

• 31 July (in Ireland): Trevor Chute, leader of British forces in the Second Taranaki War.[5]

Undated

• William Daldy, politician[6]
• (in England): Edward Dobson, Canterbury provincial engineer[7]
• William Guyton, Mayor of Wellington[8]
• John Wheeler King, the first European male born in New Zealand to reach adulthood[2]
• Henry Tancred, politician[6]

Deaths

approximate

• Charlotte Badger; one of the first two female settlers in New Zealand.[9]

See also

• List of years in New Zealand
• Timeline of New Zealand history
• History of New Zealand
• Military history of New Zealand
• Timeline of the New Zealand environment
• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

References

1. NZETC: Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century, 1816
2. "Hansen-King Family Tree". Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
3. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Thomas Kendall
4. New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Thomas Kendall Biography
5. Green, David (7 April 2006). "Chute, Trevor 1816 – 1886". Dictionary of New Zealand biography.
6. Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
7. "DOBSON BROTHERS, from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966". Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. 18 September 2007.
8. No Mean City by Stuart Perry (1969, Wellington City Council)
9. "Charlotte Badger". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.