Anarchist History of New Zealand Chronology

January 20, 2019

By AHNZ

This is the best New Zealand history timeline there is and getting better every day. Please click on one of the chronology links above to get more specific.

Raw Chronology

• 1154 AD: An 800yo Description of Maoris
• 1154: Ancient Kiwi Quicksliver
• 1154: Located! NZ found on 865 Year Old Itallian Map
• 1200: Domesticated Moa
• 1280: Capital at Wairau
• 1300s: Game of Stones
• 1300s: Inangahua Adze
• 1400s: Tribal Boundaries Emerge
• 1421: The Year China Discovered New Zealand
• 1425: Moa and Lancewood
• 1430: When Eagle Was Sovereign
• 1450: Re-Extinincted Swan
• 1500: The Waitaha
• 1501: Waitaha’s Lost Luggage?
• 1503: Frenchman’s Gully Rock Art
• 1642: Continents Suspected Deep in the South
• 1642: Dutch Discovery of New Zealand
• 1642: The Unhistoric Story, verse 1
• 1647: New Zealand
• 1700: The First Christchurch Gondola
• 1700s: Slave New Zealand
• 1769: Cook Rediscovers New Zealand
• 1769: Cook’s Arrival in New Zealand Was a Disaster?
• 1769: Discovery of White Island
• 1769: “Sacred taonga that left the shores”
• 1769: The Unhistoric Story, verse 2
• 1770: Banks Peninsula Discovered
• 1770: Christmas in Batavia
• 1770: “Who then is it that you do eat?”
• 1770s: Early NZ Colony Slaughtered, Eaten
• 1771: Benjamin Franklin’s New Zealand
• 1772: France Australe
• 1772: Marion Du Fresne’s Massacre
• 1791: Chatham Islands Discovered
• 1791: The Vancouver Expedition
• 1792: Sealers Make Muttonbirding Easier
• 1800s: New Zealand Not Quiet
• 1803: New Zealand’s Founding Father George Bass…almost
• 1806: Te Pahi’s Medal
• 1813: Maoris Get Indian Take-Away for Dinner
• 1814: A Verifiable Date For White Settlement in NZ
• 1814: Colonisation is just “plastic, chewing gum and washing machines”
• 1815: Death of Chief Ruatara
• 1815: New Zealand’s Mail
• 1815: Waterloo
• 1817: The Murders Abroad Act
• 1818: 200 Years Ago: The first performance of Silent Night
• 1819: Maori Invasion of Rotuma
• 1820: God Speed the Plough
• 1820s: The Murder Olympics
• 1820s: The Musket Junkie Wars
• 1821: Musket Wars Auckland
• 1822: Siege of Matakitaki
• 1823: Seizure of Kapiti Island
• 1824: The Gate Incident
• 1825: Escape of the Kendalls
• 1827: The Trial of the Wakefields
• 1828: Paihia School Break-Up
• 1828: The Plundering of the Herald
• 1829: A Letter from Sydney
• 1830: Slaughter by Surprise
• 1830s: Maori Children are Stuffed
• 1830s: Measley Beach
• 1830s: Shag River
• 1830s: The Penguin that Hunted Whales
• 1830s: The Spice of Danger and wild, rough, romance
• 1830s: Wellerman
• 1832: Kaiapoi vs Kaiapohia
• 1832: Siege of Otaka
• 1833: James Busby
• 1834: Busby’s Shingle
• 1834: See You Later With The Alligator
• 1834: The Harriet Affair
• 1835: Among The Trees
• 1835: Chatham Islands Anschluss
• 1835: Darwinian’s New Zealand Christmas
• 1835: Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand
• 1835: Moriori Comet of Carnage
• 1835: The Moriori Genocide
• 1835: The Pakeha Slur
• 1835: The Voyage of the Beagle
• 1836: Battle of Tuturau
• 1836: Tarore Immortalised
• 1838: Fanatical Flogger Founding Father Falls
• 1840: Akaroa
• 1840: Americans Visit Maori
• 1840: Auckland’s So-Called ‘First Lady’
• 1840: Bolton Street Cemetary
• 1840: “Britain did not want sovereignty over Māori”
• 1840: Comte de Paris
• 1840: Dissolving the Port Nicholson Settlers’ Council
• 1840: Hobson Crowns Himself
• 1840: Hobson Gang exercises British Sovereignty over the French at Akaroa
• 1840: Hobson’s Treaty Refused, Blankets Thrown Back At Him
• 1840: Lavaud and Hobson Make a Deal
• 1840: Maoris Given Negrohead Tobacco At Waitangi
• 1840: New Zealand’s First Taxman
• 1840: Purchase of Auckland
• 1840: Sovereignty over Stewart Island
• 1840: The Proclamations of Sovereignty
• 1840: The Treaty of Poihakena
• 1840: Tour of Duty or Tour of Booty?
• 1840: Wellington Anniversary
• 1840: Who Was Our First Governor? The Answer May Startle You…
• 1840s: Bad Boy Adventures in New Zealand
• 1841: Auckland’s First Gaol
• 1841: Cornwallis
• 1841: New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette
• 1841: Otawhao Mission
• 1841: The Colony of New Zealand
• 1841: William Symonds vs. Shark
• 1842: Crown admits failing to stop Maori from ‘enslaving’ Moriori
• 1842: Death of Hobson
• 1842: Fiery Death of Jules Dumont d’Urville
• 1842: Manchester Unity
• 1842: State vs Media
• 1842: The Bishop of New Zealand
• 1842: The Raupo Houses Act
• 1843: First Punch and Judy in NZ
• 1843: Ovis Aries Canterbury
• 1843: The Wairau Affray
• 1843: Waiapawa Mission
• 1843: Woke White Woman Cancels Wairau Affray
• 1844: FitzRoy’s Pole
• 1844: George Angas Jr
• 1844: No shortage of Coquettish Wenches
• 1844: The Birth of Pastoralism
• 1845: The Sacking of Russell
• 1846: Almon Boulcott’s Farm
• 1846: Boulcott’s Farm Raid
• 1847: Panmure
• 1847: The Colonial Bank of Issue
• 1848: Admiral John Stokes
• 1848: Brunner’s Fleet
• 1848: Captain Stokes: On Maori Language
• 1848: New Edinburgh
• 1848: The Acheron Survey
• 1848: The Canterbury Association
• 1848: The Kemp Deed
• 1849: Feast at the Bay of Islands
• 1849: On The Government of Colonies
• 1850: Pilgrims Landing
• 1850: St Mary’s, Auckland
• 1851: Loburn
• 1851: Lyttleton Gaol
• 1851: New Zealand’s First Census
• 1851: Rangiora’s First House
• 1851: The Ngatipaoa Invasion of Auckland
• 1851: The Old Man of New Ulster
• 1852: Culverden
• 1852: Father of the New Zealand Turf
• 1852: From Patriarchy to Potted Plants
• 1853: G.J. Leech of Rangiora
• 1853: Karanama’s Reserve
• 1853: Oamaru Ferry Theory
• 1853: Sewell Pushed Into Public Life
• 1853: Stokes Point
• 1853:The Southern Provinces Almanac
• 1854: New Zealand’s First City, Christchurch
• 1854: New Zealand’s First Prime Minister?
• 1854: Red Deer
• 1855: Governor Browne
• 1855: Ironic: Auckland’s ‘Newmarket’
• 1855: Kaiapoi gets its first lock-up
• 1855: The Mackenzie Country Heist
• 1856: Invercargill
• 1856: Politics and Politicians Dissected
• 1856: The Christchurch Club
• 1856: The Local Posts Act
• 1857: Havelock History
• 1857: Superintendent William Moorhouse Elected
• 1858: Parliament Supreme
• 1859: Cameron and Macdonald
• 1859: New Zealand’s Carrington Event
• 1859: Northport
• 1859: NZI- Insurance by Compulsion?
• 1859: The Christchurch Press
• 1860: Kohimarama Conference
• 1860: The West Coast Purchase
• 1860: Victorian Navy Deployed to New Zealand
• 1860s: Did ANZACs Fight The Waikato War?
• 1860s: The Luminaries
• 1860s: The New Zealand Death
• 1860s: The Unhistoric Story, verse 4
• 1861: Hauhau
• 1861: The Invasion of Otago
• 1862: Auckland Gas Company
• 1862: First Telegraph
• 1862: Kaitangata
• 1862: Warden’s Courts
• 1863: Affair At Mauku
• 1863: Butlerian Jihad on Victorian Schooling
• 1863: Darwin Among the Machines
• 1863: Do We Need A 3rd Rangiriri Pa?
• 1863: Francis Joseph Glacier
• 1863: Harp of Erin Tunnel
• 1863: HMS Orpheus
• 1863: Just Chillin’ on the Waikato Frontier
• 1863: Martin Crossing the Delaware
• 1863: Mass Deaths in Otago
• 1863: New Zealand and the Pacific Slave Trade
• 1863: Oath of Betrayal
• 1863: Pollok Settlement
• 1863: Surrender of Rangiriri
• 1863: The Sparrow and the Eagle
• 1863: The Waka Buster
• 1863: “To Make A Cullender of the Colony”
• 1864: Battle of Moutoa
• 1864: Charlie’s First Day at Boarding School
• 1864: Christchurch Cathedral
• 1864: Coal on the Coast
• 1864: Fitzgerald’s Picnic Party
• 1864: Rangiaohia
• 1864: Swannanoa
• 1864: The Old Man of Rangiaohia
• 1864: The Storming of Gate Pa
• 1864: The Waite
• 1864: “White men are pitifully ignorant of the meaning of omens”
• 1865: Chch Public Smash and Burn Toll Road
• 1865: Fitz Dreams of Peace
• 1865: Native Rights Act
• 1865: New Zealand Governor Commits Suicide
• 1865: Superintendent Nelson Missing to this Day
• 1866: Battle of Omarunui
• 1866: Charleston
• 1866: “Did you think I was a banker?”
• 1866: Mangatapu Murders
• 1866: Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Association
• 1866: Reuptake of Methamphetamine in the Beehive
• 1866: Te Kooti sent to Chatham Islands
• 1867: Pheasant, blackbirds, thrushes and starlings
• 1867: The Canterbury Museum
• 1867: The Wanganui Herald
• 1867: Tuahiwi
• 1867: Unveiling of Godley’s Statue
• 1868: Jailbreak
• 1868: Maxwell Falls
• 1868: Okaihau
• 1868: Superintendent Rolleston
• 1868: The Beak of the Bird
• 1868: The Poverty Bay Massacre
• 1869: Marton
• 1869: Mrs Richard Seddon
• 1869: Opepe
• 1869: University of Otago
• 1870: Lyttleton Burning
• 1870: The Truth about Smiling
• 1870: The University of New Zealand Act
• 1870s: Holloway’s Snake Oil
• 1870s: Sundowner
• 1870s: Taranaki Wool
• 1870s: Whitebait Exports
• 1871: Bean Rock Lighthouse
• 1871: First Commercial Diarying
• 1871: Rangiora Literary Institute
• 1872: Cobden Coal Mine
• 1872: Dannevirke
• 1872: Hochstetter Water Race
• 1873: I Am Iron Man
• 1873: New Zealand Excessive Legislation Mania Prevention Bill
• 1873: Softness of Brain
• 1873: The Platypus
• 1873: The Wiltshire Pedestrians
• 1873: When Auckland Took Fright
• 1874: A Fleet of American Whalers
• 1875: Abolition of Provinces
• 1875: Eyreton Branch Line
• 1875: Premier Daniel Pollen
• 1876: Death of Lord George Lyttleton
• 1876: Maoris Demand Extermination of Te Reo
• 1876: Minerva Rises
• 1876: Pembridge House
• 1877: Dusky Sound Docherty
• 1877: George Grey, Premier
• 1877: Most Radical Idea of the Human Race
• 1877: The Education Act
• 1877: The Greymouth and Kumara Tramway
• 1878: Maori Land Court Ruckus in Maketu
• 1878: Premier George Grey’s Tour
• 1878: Russian Scare
• 1878: The Slow Poison of Civilisation
• 1879: Parihaka Cult sends in The Ploughmen
• 1879: Puhoi Hotel
• 1879: Solemn Lessons at Kaitangata
• 1879: The Canterbury Riots
• 1880: Death of Chief Tainui
• 1880: Defeat of the Southland Hussars
• 1880: Silencing the Deaf
• 1880s: “I’m going into Town”
• 1880s: Prohibition Creates Substitution Effect
• 1881: Bloodless End to the Affair at Parihaka
• 1881: King Tawhiao Visits Cambridge
• 1881: The Children of Parihaka (2012)
• 1881: The Critic (or, After Parihaka)
• 1881: Wait A Minute Chester! (or, After Parihaka)
• 1882: The Stolen: A Brief Review
• 1882: The Stolen: Full Review
• 1883: Auckland University College
• 1883: Oamaru Courthouse
• 1883: Utakura
• 1884: Eulogy for Helvetia
• 1884: Gore Gospel Temperance Society
• 1884: Health For The Maori
• 1885: A Damning Epitaph
• 1885: Government Tram of Death
• 1885: New Zealand in Tasmania
• 1885: St James hall, Mt Eden
• 1885: St James Mt Eden, Part II; Conjuring a Demolition
• 1885: The Aryan Maori
• 1885: The Club Hotel
• 1886: Devonport
• 1886: Kimbolton
• 1886: Mt Tarawera Exploded
• 1886: Release the Ferret!
• 1886: Te Tiki a Tamamutu
• 1886: The Settlers Guide to New Zealand
• 1887: Tongariro National Park
• 1888: Christ out of Christmas
• 1888: The Reign of Grace
• 1889: Te Kooti- Sainted Old Santa?
• 1889: Te Kooti’s Homecoming
• 1890: Celebration of the Colony’s Jubilee
• 1890: One Man, One Vote
• 1890: Raiders of the Maori Skulls
• 1890: St Andrews Church of Loburn
• 1890: The Students of Truth
• 1890: Whakarewarewa Rugby
• 1890s: Project Possum
• 1890s: The Villa
• 1891: Land and Income Tax Assessment Act
• 1892: The Doctor of No Town
• 1892: The Past and Future of the Maori
• 1893: Atalanta’s Britches
• 1893: Her Worship Elizabeth Yates
• 1893: Kate Sheppard
• 1893: Richard Seddon assumes Premiership of New Zealand.
• 1893: The Death of Ballance
• 1893: The Liberals’ Statist Plank
• 1895: Cobb and Co. on the job
• 1895: Mount Cook Hermitage Nationalised
• 1895: Our Execution Of Minnie Dean
• 1896: Brunner Mine Disaster
• 1896: Good Honest Chocolate
• 1896: Reeves Resigns
• 1896: Scientific Temperance Instruction
• 1896: The National Council of Women
• 1897: The British Zollverein
• 1898: Easter Encampment at Westport
• 1898: Getting Rid of Robert and Anna Stout
• 1898: The Kumi, A Taniwha on the Loose!
• 1898: Methodist Chapel West Auckland
• 1898: Old-age Pensions
• 1898: The Political Woman
• 1899: A General Inspection
• 1899: Boer War
• 1899: New Zealand’s First Aviation Fatality
• 1899: Ranfurly Bay
• 1899: The Ranfurly Bridge
• 1900: Bluff Courthouse
• 1900: Boer War Parade
• 1900: Maori Councils
• 1900: The Khaki Girls
• 1900: The Opium Petition
• 1900s: 2 Distinct Nations Rendered
• 1900s: Fake Plastic Maoriland
• 1901: Death of John McKenzie
• 1901: Hawera High School
• 1901: Lola Ridge
• 1901: Nationalised Nurses
• 1901: One Tree Hill
• 1901: Royal Archway of Dead Sheep
• 1901: Shoot the Boer
• 1901: The Great Cheviot Earthquake
• 1902: Modern Santa
• 1902: The Learned Eleventh
• 1903: Dusky Sound to Lake Manapouri Road
• 1903: Hokitika Town Clock
• 1903: Maori King Joins Executive Government
• 1903: Wireless Telegraphy Act
• 1904: Education Compilation Act
• 1904: No Santa Gifts for Maoris
• 1904: Ranfurly’s Farewell
• 1904: Wallace Troopers Memorial
• 1905: Duelling Steamships – 7 Killed
• 1905: Murchison Madmen
• 1906: Dunedin Railway Station
• 1906: Nelson’s 1906 Darwin Awards
• 1906: Remembering Rolleston
• 1906: Side-Saddle Aside
• 1906: The Maori Communistic System
• 1906: Westland Buy-election
• 1907: Cavern of Bones
• 1907: Emotional Insanity
• 1907: Plunket
• 1907: Smartphone Zombies Predicted
• 1907: Standing in the Sunshine
• 1907: Taxes Spent on State Weather Control Scheme
• 1907: Vote Machine
• 1908: Phony Baloney Balneology Boom
• 1908: Rexona
• 1908: Runanga Miners Hall
• 1908: The Great White Fleet Gift
• 1908: The Great White Fleet
• 1908: The Prime Minister and the Prophet
• 1908: Tudor Towers Bathhouse
• 1908: Wellington State Monopoly, Chinks Only!
• 1909: Anna Stout’s Reasons
• 1909: Blown to Atoms
• 1909: Gothic Revival Hair
• 1910: Buller Gorge
• 1910: Chew Chong Celebrated
• 1910: Election Campaign Disguised as Lord Kitchener’s Military Inspection
• 1910: Grafton Bridge
• 1910: Indecent Publications
• 1910: Lauderdale Betrayed by Government
• 1910: Radium Flour
• 1911: Eugenics or Extinction
• 1911: Powered Flight
• 1912: A Bazaar Permission Slip
• 1912: A Parliament Is Like A Play
• 1912: Back to the Future
• 1912: Compulsory Military Camps
• 1912: Spring Cleaning at Waihi
• 1912: The Death of the Liberal Party
• 1912: The Kokatahi Band
• 1912: Waikeria Prison Farm
• 1912: We Have Got The Maxim Gun
• 1913: Maori Man Applies to be Europeanised
• 1913: Permission Slip to Raffle
• 1913: The Battlecruiser New Zealand a Gift to Empire?
• 1913: The Great Strike Boogaloo
• 1913: The Kaiser’s Christmas Card
• 1913: Walking To Happiness
• 1914: Frances Parker Arrested
• 1914: Just As The Sun Went Down
• 1914: Takanini
• 1914: The Light of Brightwater
• 1914: Westland Goldfields Jubilee
• 1915: Apologise for Gallipoli?
• 1915: Automobile Associations
• 1915: Canakkale Victory and Martyrs’ Day
• 1915: Evacuation of Gallipoli
• 1915: Fiasco at Gallipoli
• 1915: Rudyard Kipling vs New Zealand Government
• 1915: The Battle of Chunuk Bair
• 1916: Birth of the Labour Party
• 1916: HMS New Zealand vs HMAS Australia
• 1916: Motorised Scooters
• 1916: Peter Fraser Incarcerated
• 1916: “The Devastating Hun”
• 1917: Don Buck’s Gumdigger Camp Scrapped
• 1917: Even if it takes all the men
• 1917: Government Pool Explodes
• 1917: SMS Wolf Raids NZ
• 1917: The Runanga Payroll Robbery
• 1918: AARD
• 1918: Armistice Day
• 1918: Brownies
• 1918: Government Placebos for Influenza
• 1918: Great War Debating Chamber
• 1918: Influenza Memorials
• 1918: Our True ‘Greatest Pandemic’
• 1918: Pandemic: New Zealand vs. Tasmania
• 1918: Ratana Fever
• 1918: Surafend Massacre
• 1918: Tane Hemp Company Limited Suspension Bridge
• 1918: Te Paina Marae Raid
• 1918: The Otira Tunnel Was Already There
• 1918: The Ratana Church
• 1918: The Storming of King Edward Barracks
• 1918: The Truth about the Influenza Epidemic
• 1918: Uncle Scrim’s Pandemic
• 1919: Bulford Kiwi
• 1919: Combustible Krauts
• 1919: General Election
• 1919: Mauku Figurine
• 1920: Alexander Turnbull Library Nationalised
• 1920: Cook Strait Sky Captain
• 1920: “Inane Maories danced & made weird noises at me!!”
• 1920: Royal Prince Visit
• 1920s: Psychic Bike Locks
• 1920s: The Rise of Four Square stores
• 1921: Christchurch Electric Car Fleet
• 1921: Jellicoe Hall
• 1921: Rob’s Birthday
• 1921: The New Zealand School Dental Service
• 1921: Turangawaewae
• 1921: Weka Protection
• 1922: Eskimo Pie
• 1922: First Traffic Signals
• 1923: Farewell to Otira Coaches
• 1925: Death of William Massey
• 1925: Henderson Creek
• 1925: Labour 0.0
• 1925: Maori Boomerang Discovered
• 1925: Ratana Church Goes Public
• 1925: “The Segregation Era”
• 1925: Waitangi Oil Springs
• 1925: Waiuku Public Library
• 1926: Henderson Town Hall
• 1926: Mainstream Eugenics
• 1926: The Wonder Man
• 1927: Driving tests and licences introduced by the Henderson Town Board
• 1927: Daylight Saving
• 1928: Another Liberal Monument
• 1928: Race Realism
• 1929: Auckland’s Lost Lake, St. John
• 1929: Bessie Lee and the Brewery
• 1929: One Day Flight
• 1929: Primitive Economics of the NZ Maori
• 1929: That Pommy Bastard
• 1929: The Mau Riot
• 1930: Death of Joseph Ward
• 1930: Government Making Our Pants Explode
• 1930: Kirwee Colonel
• 1930: The Sugarbag Years
• 1930s: I’m envious of Uncle Scrim
• 1930s: Kauri dieback?
• 1930s: Nigger Brown
• 1930s: Systematic Thrashings
• 1930s: The Magpies
• 1930s: Whose News?
• 1931: Cheer-up Week
• 1931: New Zealand Broadcasting Board
• 1931: Policy of Adaptation
• 1932: A Funeral for the Rules
• 1932: Black Out
• 1932: Firemen
• 1932: Queen Street Riot
• 1932: Rainbow Springs
• 1932: Robert McDougall Art Gallery
• 1932: Tai Tapu Library
• 1932: Youth Hostel Association of New Zealand
• 1933: Death of Harry Holland
• 1933: Elizabeth McCombs, MHR
• 1933: Pranking the Authoritarians
• 1934: Death of Kate Sheppard
• 1934: First Waitangi Day
• 1934: George Bernard Shaw Visit
• 1934: Reserve Bank of New Zealand Established
• 1934: Whale Hunting With A Machine Gun
• 1935: Labour Finance Ministers
• 1935: Pickering Follows Cosmic Rainbow Home to New Zealand
• 1936: Apirana Ngata joins National Party
• 1936: Cotton Reel Tanks
• 1936: Days of Physical Culture
• 1936: Jack Lovelock, Political Puppet
• 1936: Kings High
• 1936: Mickey Mouse in the French Foreign Legion
• 1936: Savage’s Unconventional Family
• 1936: Single Source of Truth
• 1936: The Ministry of Marketing
• 1936: Timaru’s Nazi Tree
• 1937: Death of Rua Kenana
• 1937: First State House Built?
• 1937: House-Broken Labour
• 1937: No. 75 Squadron
• 1937: The Crocodile Sleeps
• 1937: The Most Powerful Radio Transmitter in the Southern Hemisphere
• 1938: Heavy Snow for Greymouth
• 1938: Jessie Mackay
• 1938: Labour 1.2
• 1938: The Affair Of The Four Colonels
• 1938: The Social Security Act
• 1938: Trethewey’s Heroes
• 1939: Genesis of the Cybermen
• 1939: Marshmallow Easter Eggs
• 1939: New Zealand Listener
• 1939: No-Fault Persecution
• 1939: Polish Diaspora
• 1939: Psychopathology in Politics
• 1939: St Andrew’s Blaketown
• 1939: The First State Babies
• 1940: Bathing Beauty Contests
• 1940: Bernard Freyberg and Carol Hirschfeld
• 1940: Savage Death
• 1940: The National Savings Movement
• 1940: Tomorrow Dies
• 1940: Wartime Conscription
• 1940s: Defend New Zealand: Christchurch vs Auckland
• 1940s: Hauraki Gulf Marine Mines
• 1940s: Post-War Department Store
• 1940s: We Will Remember Them
• 1941: Defiant Bureaucrat Killed in Minister’s Office
• 1941: From Beer Barrels to Beer Tankers
• 1941: Intelligent Cereal Boxes
• 1941: New Zealand Attacks Finland
• 1941: New Zealand Standards Council
• 1941: Operation Mercury
• 1941: Riverside
• 1941: The General Election That Never Was
• 1941: The Graham Manhunt
• 1941: The Greek Campaign
• 1941: The Greek King’s Bodyguard
• 1942: Coming and Going
• 1942: Kelly’s Canter
• 1942: Musick Point
• 1942: Tarawa Massacre
• 1942: The Maori War Effort Organisation
• 1942: Women Jurors Act
• 1943: Coates Dies in Office
• 1943: Eleanor Roosevelt Aggravates Unrest
• 1943: Freeman’s Bay Gasometers
• 1943: Hui at Ruatoria and Price of Citizenship speech
• 1943: Liberator Crash at Whenuapai
• 1943: “National Savings”
• 1943: The Battle of Manners Street
• 1944: Little Poland
• 1944: Mark of the Lion
• 1944: No serotonin for you, Boomer!
• 1945: Government Sing-off Battle
• 1945: Punakaiki Home Guard
• 1945: VE Day
• 1946: Don’t Spit
• 1946: Ending For The Election Night Assembly
• 1946: In Endless Fear
• 1946: Jayforce
• 1946: Kararoa Dairy
• 1947: Middlemore Hospital
• 1947: Prince Philip
• 1947: Socialised Dentistry for Kids
• 1947: The Waters of the Waitemata
• 1948: City of Timaru
• 1948: Extinguishing British Citizenship
• 1948: Helen Keller
• 1948: Notornis, I Presume?
• 1948: Polio School Holiday
• 1949: Meeanee Rodeo
• 1949: We Want To Help Britain
• 1950: Christchurch International Airport
• 1950: New Zealand War Service Medal
• 1950: “The thicker the block, the better the choc”
• 1950s: Conquered Pacific Theatre Converted into Americana
• 1950s: Free Gift Inside
• 1950s: Oblaten Swaps
• 1950s: Sons of Sargeson
• 1951: ANZUS Treaty
• 1951: ANZUS
• 1951: Arranged Marriages
• 1951: Cave In at Waiuta
• 1951: Death of Peter Buck
• 1951: Lock Out vs Lock Down
• 1952: Invercargill’s Last Tram
• 1952: Kamaka’s Last Drink
• 1952: The Grand Interplanetary Hoax
• 1952: The Otara Project
• 1952: The Southland Creed Renewed
• 1953: Auckland Domain Reservoir
• 1953: Auckland’s Southern Motorway
• 1953: Conquest of Everest
• 1953: Everest- ‘Kiwi Kids are Weetbix Kids’
• 1953: Herald Island Falls to The State
• 1953: HMS Tactician
• 1953: Kawerau
• 1953: Prize-Giving Speech
• 1953: Queen of New Zealand in New Zealand
• 1954: Christchurch’s Last Tram
• 1954: Fourth World
• 1954: Mazengarb
• 1954: The Queen and The State
• 1955: An Increased Tourist Industry
• 1955: Dunedin Inclined to Vanity
• 1955: New Zealand Honey Marketing Authority
• 1955: Opo
• 1955: Tails On Rails
• 1955: Tasman Glacier Airstrip
• 1955: Uranium flavoured ice cream
• 1955: Who Will Build the Roads?
• 1956: White Island Expedition
• 1957: Happy Families
• 1957: Nash Equilibrium
• 1957: Only That Your Words Will Live
• 1957: Rock Around The Clock
• 1958: Hermitage Lodge
• 1958: Open Hearts
• 1958: The Black Budget
• 1959: Keith Trek
• 1959: Oxford Branch Closed
• 1959: Report With Soundings
• 1960: Arise, Television
• 1960: Colorado River Campaign
• 1960: Disabled Persons Employment Promotion Act
• 1964: Henderson Intermediate
• 1960: Nelson-Blenheim Railway
• 1960: New Zealand PM Meets Khrushchev
• 1960s: Breaking Gay Ground?
• 1960s: Brutalism in Nelson
• 1960s: Gasometer’s Demise
• 1960s: Richard Scarry’s New Zealand
• 1960s: “Sexist Advertisements”
• 1960s: The Second Great Migration
• 1961: Brierley Investments Ltd
• 1961: Salty Cycles
• 1961: Thalidomide
• 1961: Upham Interview- Not Dark Yet
• 1961: Walter’s Bluff
• 1962: Founders Memorial Theater
• 1962: Maoris and Early Settlers
• 1962: MV Tuhoe
• 1962: Television Anarchy
• 1962: The Treaty of Friendship
• 1963: A Kiwi Spring Clothes Peg Dynasty
• 1963: Auckland Flying School
• 1963: Auckland Regional Authority
• 1963: Bassett Road Machine-gun Murders
• 1963: New Zealand Labour Party Leadership Election
• 1963: The Great Ricardo
• 1964: Beatlemania
• 1964: Keeping Sexual Deviants Cowed
• 1964: Massive Exam Hall Conditions
• 1964: Nuclear Mother
• 1965: Kaimai Tunnel
• 1965: Liesure Island
• 1966: Decimal Coins
• 1966: Kaipara Nuclear Power Station
• 1966: Radio Hauraki
• 1966: Rotorua Meter Maid
• 1966: US President in New Zealand
• 1967: Burt Munroe, Downright Arthurian
• 1967: Decimalisation
• 1967: Opepe Canoe Rescue
• 1967: Physical Sciences Library
• 1967: The Heretic
• 1967: The Strongman Mine Disaster
• 1968: Wahine
• 1969: First televised national news broadcast
• 1969: Nelson Provincial Council Buildings Demolished
• 1969: Ripped off in Rotorua
• 1969: Rotary Park
• 1969: Rotorua Museum
• 1970: Bonus Bonds
• 1970: Skyhawk
• 1970: The Southerner
• 1970s: Anthropomorphic Television Demigods
• 1970s: Kaiapoi Warf
• 1970s: Kelly Tarlton: He Could and He Did
• 1970s: Kiwis have no idea when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed
• 1970s: Road Warrior Boomers
• 1970s: The Fall of Four Square Stores
• 1971: BLERTA
• 1971: Foxton Courthouse Closure
• 1971: Kentucky Fried Chicken
• 1971: New Zealand’s Heritage: The Making of a Nation
• 1971: Polynesian Panthers
• 1971: Shantytown
• 1971: South City Substation
• 1971: Tiwai Point
• 1971: Turangi Information Centre Museum
• 1972: Accident Compensation Corporation
• 1972: Died Today: James K. Baxter
• 1972: Germaine Greer visits
• 1972: Masterton Cosmopolitan Club
• 1972: Otama Water Supply Scheme
• 1972: Play School
• 1972: Ruth Ross Redux
• 1972: Te Reo Maori Claim
• 1972: The Scatter Hypothesis
• 1972: The West Auckland Booze Monopoly Cartel
• 1973: Early Seventies ‘Oil Shock’ Hemlines
• 1973: Labour 3.0 on Justice
• 1973: Nazi Role Models
• 1973: Our Big Norm
• 1973: The Importance of Being Ernest Adams
• 1974: Abortion
• 1974: Busting Sutch
• 1974: Freemans’ Farm Nationalised
• 1974: I Care
• 1974: Join Together
• 1974: Kirk Out
• 1974: Pizza Hut
• 1974: The End of the World
• 1974: The Ohu Scheme
• 1975: Brian Talboys
• 1975: Disarming the Banks
• 1975: Fred Dagg
• 1975: General Election; ‘The Cities’
• 1975: New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation Extinguished
• 1975: Telethon
• 1975: The Parihaka Industry
• 1975: TV2
• 1975: Wellington 2ZM
• 1975: What is a New Zealander?
• 1976: Bob Jones
• 1976: Final Lyttelton Wellington Ferry
• 1976: Orana Park
• 1976: Wanganui Computer Centre Act
• 1977: Fair Go
• 1977: Glenbrook Vintage Railway
• 1977: Holyoake Appointed Governor General
• 1977: Jean Batten Came Home
• 1977: José Feliciano working for Muldoon
• 1978: Bloody Friday
• 1978: Lawrence Lions
• 1978: Looking Back on 1978
• 1978: New Brighton Pedestrian Mall
• 1978: Punk
• 1978: Turn to Industry
• 1978: What More Could Poor Split Enz Do?
• 1979: Abbotsford
• 1979: Carless Days
• 1979: Country Courthouse Culling
• 1979: Dunedin Airport Siege
• 1979: From Sofinsky to Putin
• 1979: International Year of the Child
• 1979: Kaikoura UFO
• 1979: Misremembering Erebus
• 1979: New Zealand State Kills 257 at Erebus
• 1979: Operation Midford
• 1979: Split Enz: Frenzy
• 1979: Winston Peters Gets In
• 1980: East Coast Bays Buy-election
• 1980: Fuel Fighter 661, Rob Muldoon’s Distracto-Train
• 1980: Moscow Olympics
• 1980: The Independent State of Aramoana
• 1980s: After School
• 1980s: Hadlee on Pacifism
• 1980s: Sketching Shoes
• 1980s: State Post Office Swindle Books
• 1980s: The Littlest Hobo
• 1981: Kiwis Bombing Kiwis
• 1981: Landmarks
• 1981: Over-Educated Housewives
• 1981: Rixen
• 1981: Ruahihi Disaster
• 1981: The Anderson Bay Hoax
• 1981: The Greatest American Hero
• 1981: Tip Top Zorro
• 1982: Jean Batten: Bit by a dog with a rabid tooth
• 1982: Neil Roberts Day
• 1982: Operation Freightcare
• 1982: The Other Guy
• 1982: The Warehouse
• 1983: Coast to Coast
• 1983: Howe Street Gasometers
• 1983: Savage Islands
• 1984: Death of Keith Allen
• 1984: Everybody Loves A Winner
• 1984: Queen Street Riot
• 1984: The Fall of Fortress New Zealand
• 1984: The ICI Fire
• 1984: The Terminator
• 1985: Al Noor Mosque
• 1985: All Aboard The Race Bus
• 1985: Free Market Honey
• 1985: GMV Wairua
• 1985: Placing Mt Egmont in the Shade
• 1985: Refinery to Auckland Pipeline
• 1985: Robin of Sherwood
• 1985: Termination of Westland Hospital
• 1986: Adventure Playground
• 1986: I Came, I saw, I Concorde
• 1986: Mikhail Lermontov Sinking
• 1986: Tamaki City Council
• 1987: Edgecumbe
• 1987: Lotto
• 1987: Newstalk 1ZB
• 1987: Te Morehu Cairn
• 1987: Telecom New Zealand Materialises
• 1987: The Death of Shoe Salesmen
• 1987: The Krypton Factor
• 1987: The Re-Election of Labour 4.0
• 1988: Cyclone Bola
• 1988: Labour Goes Full Victimhood
• 1988: Life Education Trust
• 1988: Matilda
• 1988: Nuclear Free Zone
• 1988: Termination of Reefton Hospital
• 1988: The Meade Report
• 1988: Turn Out Coffee Coloured People By The Score
• 1988: Video Ezy
• 1989: An Amalgamated Visage Lies
• 1989: Ancestors of the Mind
• 1989: Brian’s Revolution
• 1989: David Lange Resigned
• 1989: Idiot Played Rachmaninov
• 1989: Jim Anderton Splits
• 1989: Kavanagh College
• 1989: Moriori- A People Resurrected
• 1989: Seinfeld
• 1989: The Brown Trout of Gore
• 1989: The Great Amalgamation
• 1989: The Palmer Interlude
• 1989: The Republic of Whangamomona
• 1989: Tomorrow’s Schools
• 1989: TV3
• 1990: David’s Got A Gun
• 1990: Dignity Culture Played Out
• 1990: Kiri’s Homecoming
• 1990: One and Two-cent Coins Withdrawn
• 1990: Prime Minister Mike Moore
• 1990: Reach Out
• 1990: The David Gray Manhunt
• 1990: The New Adventures of Black Beauty
• 1990: To Sir With Love
• 1990: Who Are We
• 1990s: Bye Grandma
• 1990s: Captain Planet and the Planeteers
• 1990s: Rave Culture
• 1990s: Social Capital Tanks
• 1991: Death of Billy T James
• 1991: Edmund Hillary in Orewa
• 1991: Kiwiburger
• 1991: Science Alive!
• 1992: 91ZM Morning Crew
• 1992: A City Possessed
• 1992: A Thing Well Made
• 1992: Benito and Adolf in a New Zealand film!
• 1992: I Don’t Care Where As Long As I’m Mayor
• 1992: It’s My Sin
• 1992: NZBS
• 1992: Schlaepfer Farm Murders
• 1992: The New Zealand Shoe
• 1993: Bailey’s 818
• 1993: Hit the Ground Running
• 1993: New Zealand Rail Sale
• 1993: Nightline, Deadline, Flatline
• 1993: Oi
• 1993: Suffrage Day
• 1994: Attack on One Tree Hill
• 1994: Ivomec Music
• 1994: PHANZA
• 1994: The Free Radical
• 1994: The Stackhat Deception
• 1994: “They’re dead, they’re all dead.”
• 1995: Big Apple at Waitomo
• 1995: Cave Creek Collapse
• 1995: John Britten
• 1995: News Crashers
• 1995: Professional Rugby
• 1995: The Travesty of Waitangi
• 1996: Attack at Bastion Point
• 1996: NASDAP
• 1996: Rahui or Rah-hooey?
• 1997: The Death of Mat Rata
• 1998: Bill Maher Hall
• 1998: Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act
• 1999: Rarangi Millennium Rock
• 2000: Big Mouth Billy Bass
• 2000: Castle Pamela
• 2000: Closing the Gaps
• 2000: Mt Hikurangi
• 2000: Radical Conservatism
• 2000: The Hauraki Gulf Marine Park
• 2000: The Waikato Connection
• 2000s: Generation Z
• 2000s: History: The New Zealand Nuclear Family
• 2001: Matariki A State Odyssey
• 2002: Discovery of Lost Tribe, Ngati Hinerangi
• 2002: Police Ten 7
• 2002: Policepersons
• 2002: The Anarchist House
• 2002: The Governor’s Stolen Diary
• 2003: Test the Nation
• 2003: That time Goff met Arafat
• 2003: The Fart Tax
• 2004: Safe Communities Foundation
• 2004: Speedgate
• 2004: The Ellerslie Meteorite
• 2005: ACT 2.0
• 2005: An MP for a Pet
• 2005: Monument to Kiwi Vanity
• 2005: State Jihad on Catfishing
• 2006: 5 Cent Coin Abolished
• 2006: Made in Taiwan
• 2006: The Seventh Maori King
• 2006: The Upham Boomers
• 2007: Derailing Fred
• 2007: Holocaust Centre of New Zealand
• 2007: One Day
• 2007: Otago Correctional Facility
• 2007: Paper Computer Dream Dies With Kiwi Inventor
• 2008: Air New Zealand Crash
• 2008: Join the Resistance
• 2008: Labour 5.0 Defeated
• 2008: Martin Jetpack
• 2008: Prime Minister John Key
• 2008: The New Zealand Pacific Party
• 2008: Voting under the influence
• 2009: Cadbury Switched to Palm Oil
• 2009: Harry Brown
• 2009: Mt Eden’s Cows Removed
• 2009: New Zealand Sign Language Week
• 2010: Meet The Colemans
• 2010: Pike River Mine Disaster
• 2010: Supercity
• 2010s: “10 Decolonisation Skills for Non-Maori Kiwis”
• 2010s: Baby Boomer Self-Entitlement
• 2010s: Diversity Policing
• 2010s: Local Papers Die
• 2010s: Millennials Hurting
• 2010s: New Zealand English Endangered?
• 2010s: No Place For Young Male Anger
• 2011: David Shearer Leader of Labour Party
• 2011: Flixbox
• 2011: NZ Productivity Commission
• 2012: Kiwiblog Foresees Labour 6.0
• 2012: The Egg Bomb
• 2012: The End of TVNZ7
• 2014: Death of Charlotte Dawson
• 2014: The Appeasement Express
• 2014: The Lego Movie
• 2015: Agassiz Glacier Cancelled?
• 2015: Cassidy ‘The Catalyst’ Boon
• 2015: Kāhui Ako: A Cluster Schmuck of Learning
• 2015: Section 501 Transportation
• 2015: Story
• 2015: Superstition and Kiwifruit
• 2015: “Teaching Critical History in Schools”
• 2015: The Grounding of the Tuhoe
• 2015: Triggering
• 2016: Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• 2016: The Inflammability of Red Tape
• 2016: The Rotorua Museum Scam
• 2017: Man arrested after spraying shoppers with wine in Timaru on New Year’s Eve
• 2017: Meghan & Harry
• 2017: Port Hills Fires
• 2017: Should farmers pay for water?
• 2017: The Class of 2017
• 2017: Why are New Zealand Women so Lazy?
• 2018: Assid Corban’s Last Battle
• 2018: Auckland Regional Fuel Tax
• 2018: Blind Bisexual Goose Gets Civic Funeral
• 2018: Derailing Little Toot
• 2018: Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Act
• 2018: “Get Woke, Or Shuffle Off”
• 2018: Government Place Names
• 2018: Honouring Bureaucracy
• 2018: Language Trauma
• 2018: National Wastewater Testing Programme
• 2018: School students banned from touching army guns
• 2018: St James Hall burns
• 2018: Teachers’ Teachers Demand More State Control
• 2018: The Provincial Growth Fund
• 2019: “Difficult Histories: The New Zealand Wars”
• 2019: “Let’s take his phallus”
• 2019: “Share a Coke with Whānau”
• 2019: What is up with Māori these days they wanna whine about everything
• 2020: A Life’s Sentences Overturned
• 2020: Cultural Hygiene
• 2020: Frankenstein’s Maori
• 2020: Generation Z and COVID-19
• 2020: Historical Report on Hamilton Street and City Names
• 2020: Millennial Fetal Contentment
• 2020s: Dignity Culture Rising
• 2020s: Generation Z+1
• 2020s: Shrinkflation
• 2021: ACC: “Have a hmmm”
• 2021: Radio Hauraki Gets Woke
• 2021: Rotorua Boys High Goes Woke
• 2022: ANZAC Day Dimming
• 2022: The Peasants’ Revolt
• 2022: Whiria te Tangata
• 2023: Aotearoa New Zealand’s Histories (ANZH) curriculum
• 2023: The Heroic Millennial

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