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Bourbon Chronology

January 20, 2019

By AHNZ

This Chronology ordered using the back of my bottle of bourbon as a guide. I hope you find it useful…

  • 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: New Zealand’s First Christmas
  • 1642: The Unhistoric Story, verse 1
  • 1647: New Zealand
  • 1700: The First Christchurch Gondola
  • 1700s: Slave New Zealand

  • Jacob Beam
    1760-1834

  • 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

  • Establishment of Jim Beam
    1795

  • 1800s: New Zealand Not Quiet

  • David Beam
    1802-1854

  • 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

  • David M. Beam
    1833-1913

  • 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: Pukaki’s Gateway
  • 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: Howick Fencibles Land
  • 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”

  • Colonel James Beam
    1864-1947

  • 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: Jackson Bay
  • 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: Reefton Electric
  • 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: Reefton’s Electric 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: Greymouth-Hokitika Line
  • 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

  • T. Jeremiah Beam
    1899-1977

  • 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: Ashes of Accountability in Tauranga
  • 1902: Modern Santa
  • 1902: Taipo Explosives Ltd.
  • 1902: The Learned Eleventh
  • 1902: Waimarino County
  • 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: Muriwai Mystery
  • 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: First Successful Alchemist
  • 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: Burke Street Harbour Project
  • 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

  • Booker Noe
    1929-2004

  • 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
  • 1933: The Last Moriori
  • 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: Blackout
  • 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: Kaitaia Airport
  • 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
  • 1951: The Rise of Whina Cooper
  • 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: BNZ Drive-In Bank
  • 1954: Christchurch’s Last Tram
  • 1954: Fourth World
  • 1954: Lizzy’s Side
  • 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

  • Fred Noe
    1957-Present

  • 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
  • 1958: Three Kings Carols by Candlelight
  • 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: Memorial Park Fountain
  • 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 Great Ngaruawahia Music Festival
  • 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: Bastion Point
  • 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: Driveworld
  • 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!
  • 1991: Te Rua
  • 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
  • 1993: Wellington’s City to Sea Bridge
  • 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: Fly Buys
  • 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: Bo-Gyung Ko
  • 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

  • Mila Kunis
    2014-Present

  • 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: Marae Pedestrian Warning Sign
  • 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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