{"slug": "maori-people", "label": "Māori people", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_people", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6122670", "qid": "Q6122670", "description": "indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand", "entries": 21, "years": 18, "span": [1280, 1975], "span_label": ["1280 CE", "1975 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 13}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 7}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "new-zealand", "label": "New Zealand", "shared": 8}, {"slug": "december", "label": "December", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "june", "label": "June", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "british-army", "label": "British Army", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1280, "year_label": "1280 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The ancestors of the Māori people from eastern Polynesia become the first human settlers of New Zealand.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362487782#Events", "title": "1280", "revid": 1362487782, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1320, "year_label": "1320 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Approximate date – Earliest likely date for first permanent settlement of New Zealand by Māori people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353685641#Date_unknown", "title": "1320", "revid": 1353685641, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1350, "year_label": "1350 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Approximate date – Latest likely date for first permanent settlement of New Zealand by Māori people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358971362#Date_unknown", "title": "1350", "revid": 1358971362, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1400, "year_label": "1400 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "The Haast's eagle and Moa are both driven to extinction by Māori hunters.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369029011#Date_unknown", "title": "1400", "revid": 1369029011, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1500, "year_label": "1500 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "A group of Māori migrate east from the New Zealand mainland to the Chatham Islands, developing a distinct pacificist culture known as the Moriori (approx. date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371377541#Date_unknown", "title": "1500", "revid": 1371377541, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1642, "year_label": "1642 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 13", "text": "December 13 – Abel Tasman and his crew become the first recorded Europeans to sight New Zealand, arriving at its South Island. In a battle between the Europeans and the Island's Maori inhabitants, four crew members are killed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350256188#October–December", "title": "1642", "revid": 1350256188, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1769, "year_label": "1769 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "October 9", "text": "October 9 – In the first encounter between the Māori people and Europeans (at the future site of Gisborne, New Zealand), one Maori is shot and killed after he steals a sword from one of the officers of the Cook expedition. Several more Māori are killed in fighting the next day.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354215144#October–December", "title": "1769", "revid": 1354215144, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1807, "year_label": "1807 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Hingakaka between two factions of Māori people, the largest battle ever fought in New Zealand, and the last fought there without firearms. In 1807 or 1808 is fought the Battle of Moremonui, first of the Musket Wars.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362733939#Approximate_date", "title": "1807", "revid": 1362733939, "section": "Events › Approximate date"}}, {"year": 1809, "year_label": "1809 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December", "text": "December – Boyd massacre: Whangaroa Māori people kill and eat 66 crew and passengers of the brigantine Boyd in New Zealand.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349276571#October–December", "title": "1809", "revid": 1349276571, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1835, "year_label": "1835 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 5", "text": "December 5 – Start of Moriori genocide, the killing and enslavement of the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands by 500 Māori people from New Zealand.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364866184#October–December", "title": "1835", "revid": 1364866184, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1843, "year_label": "1843 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 17", "text": "June 17 – In New Zealand, a posse of British settlers sent to arrest Māori chief Te Rauparaha clash with members of his Ngāti Toa tribe, resulting in 26 deaths.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366016136#April–June", "title": "1843", "revid": 1366016136, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1845, "year_label": "1845 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 11", "text": "March 11 – The New Zealand Wars open with the Flagstaff War. Chiefs Kawiti and Hōne Heke lead 700 Maoris in the burning of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka (modern-day Russell, New Zealand).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364939346#January–March", "title": "1845", "revid": 1364939346, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1847, "year_label": "1847 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 16", "text": "April 16 – New Zealand Wars: A minor Māori chief is accidentally shot by a junior British Army officer in Whanganui on New Zealand's North Island, triggering the Wanganui Campaign (which continues until July 23).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362575777#April–June", "title": "1847", "revid": 1362575777, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1860, "year_label": "1860 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 17", "text": "March 17 – The First Taranaki War begins at Waitara, New Zealand, when Māori refuse to sell land to British settlers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371066131#March", "title": "1860", "revid": 1371066131, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1860, "year_label": "1860 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 19", "text": "October 19 – A new Māori revolt begins in New Zealand.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371066131#October", "title": "1860", "revid": 1371066131, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1863, "year_label": "1863 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 17", "text": "July 17 – The New Zealand Wars against the Māori people resume, as British forces in New Zealand led by Duncan Cameron begin their Invasion of the Waikato.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363782030#July", "title": "1863", "revid": 1363782030, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1868, "year_label": "1868 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June", "text": "June – Tītokowaru's War breaks out in the South Taranaki District of New Zealand's North Island between the Ngāti Ruanui Māori tribe and the New Zealand Government.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363668193#June", "title": "1868", "revid": 1363668193, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1868, "year_label": "1868 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 7", "text": "November 7 – The Battle of Moturoa, New Zealand, ends in a British defeat, due to an underestimate of Tītokowaru and his fortifications. There are heavy casualties for the colonial army and light casualties for the Māori defenders.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363668193#November", "title": "1868", "revid": 1363668193, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1868, "year_label": "1868 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 7", "text": "September 7 – Tītokowaru's War: Māori leader Tītokowaru defeats a New Zealand military force at Te Ngutu o Te Manu, North Island.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363668193#September", "title": "1868", "revid": 1363668193, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1869, "year_label": "1869 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 24", "text": "March 24 – Tītokowaru's War ends with the surrender of the last Māori troops at large, in the South Taranaki District of New Zealand's North Island.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360511845#March", "title": "1869", "revid": 1360511845, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1975, "year_label": "1975 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "September", "text": "September–October – In New Zealand, Māori leader Whina Cooper leads a march of 5,000 people, in support of Maori claims to their land.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369955775#September", "title": "1975", "revid": 1369955775, "section": "Events › September"}}]}