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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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: 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 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: 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!

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: 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

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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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