1832_in_New_Zealand
1832 in New Zealand
List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1832 in New Zealand.
Regal and viceregal
Government and law
- British Resident in New Zealand – James Busby is appointed in March[1] but does not arrive in New Zealand until 10 May 1833.
- 19 April – Construction of the Stone Store at Kerikeri begins.
- December – Missionary Henry Williams records the first mention of cricket being played in New Zealand, on the beach at Paihia.[2]
Undated
- The Weller brothers whaling station at Otakou is destroyed by fire before whaling operations have begun. It is soon rebuilt.[3] (see 1831 & 1835)
- Ngāti Toa under chief and war leader Te Rauparaha capture and destroy the Ngāi Tahu stronghold of Kaiapoi pa.
- Te Rauparaha and Ngāti Toa capture the Ngāi Tahu pā at Onawe on Akaroa harbour and massacre the inhabitants.
- Ngā Puhi attack Otumoetai pā.[4]
- British merchant and ship owner Captain James Clendon buys land and sets up a trading station at Okiato in the Bay of Islands. The location would be renamed Russell and become the first capital of New Zealand in 1840.
- 14 March (in Scotland): Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet, 6th Governor of New Zealand.[5]
- 20 November William Gilbert Mair, soldier and judge
- Unknown date
- Frederic Jones, politician.[6]
- (in England): John Davies Ormond, politician.[7]
- Elizabeth Mary Palmer, New Zealand music and singing teacher, performer, composer, and entertainment promoter.[8]
- Arthur Seymour, politician, Superintendent of Marlborough.[6]
- Alexander Sligo, politician.[6]
- Thomas Thompson, politician.[6]
- Approximate
- 6 August: Thomas Kendall, Missionary and Pākehā Māori[10]
- "Tauranga History Timeline". Archived from the original on 14 January 2006. Retrieved 9 October 2007.
- V. A. Edgeloe (2006). "Fergusson, Sir James (1832 - 1907)". Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition. Australian National University.
- Foster, B.J. (1966). "ORMOND, Hon. John Davies". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
- Simpson, Adrienne. "Elizabeth Mary Palmer". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- Binney, Judith - Redemption songs: a life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1995. ISBN 1-86940-131-X, ISBN 978-1-86940-131-3. p 16
- Binney, Judith. (22 June 2007). "Kendall, Thomas 1778? - 1832". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
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