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Bay of Islands

area in the Northland Region of the North Island of New Zealand

21 dated entries naming Bay of Islands, drawn from 20 separate years between 1802 CE and 1840 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Bay of Islands, New Zealand in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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19th century

  • 1802The whaler Harriet is the first ship known to have visited the Bay of Islands since 1793.source
  • 180625 February – The Lady Nelson leaves Port Jackson to return Te Pahi and his sons to the Bay of Islands. Te Pahi has been given bricks and a frame for a European house, and other goods. During the journey Te Pahi becomes ill and is nursed by ex-convict George Bruce.source
  • 180826 September – Te Pahi returns to the Bay of Islands on the Commerce.source
  • 18091 March – The City of Edinburgh arrives in the Bay of Islands, returning chief (Maa-)Tara from Port Jackson. Tara dies of bronchitis some months later (possibly July–September).source
  • 1812March – The whaling ship King George, Captain Lasco Jones, calls at the Bay of Islands. John Besent, an American in the crew, deserts the ship worried that locals will hear about ill-treatment of a Māori crew member by the Captain and massacre the crew as happened with the Boyd. He stays with the Ngā Puhi for 12 months and during that time hears a detailed account of what happened with the Boyd from chief Te Aara (who speaks fluent English). He later reports the ill-treatment by Captain Lasco and relates the Boyd account to the authorities in Port Jackson.source
  • 181414 March – Thomas Kendall and William Hall leave Sydney on the Active, captain Dillon, for Hobart, on the way to explore the Bay of Islands for a suitable mission site. Also with them is Tui (Tupaea), younger brother of the Ngāpuhi chief Korokoro, who has been staying with Kendall in Sydney.source
  • 1815The first full-blooded European native born in New Zealand, Thomas King, is born in the Bay of Islands.source
  • 1817January – Hongi Hika leads 800 Ngāpuhi in a fleet of 30 canoes to make peace with the North Cape tribes. He quarrels with tribes at Whangaroa on the way and immediately returns to the Bay of Islands in case they attack the Rangihoua mission in his absence.source
  • 1818November – Te Morenga returns to the Bay of Islands.source
  • 182112 July – Thomas Kendall, Hongi Hika and Waikato arrive back in the Bay of Islands from their trip to England. While in England they have helped to compile a Maori dictionary, met King George IV who gave Hongi a suit of armour, and Hongi has acquired a number of muskets (his primary purpose).source
  • 182222 January – Samuel Leigh and his wife arrive in the Bay of Islands to start the first Wesleyan mission. They stay at Te Puna with the Hall family of the Church Missionary Society for the next 16 months.source
  • 182316 May – William White and others arrive in the St Michael to reinforce the Wesleyan missionaries in the Bay of Islands.source
  • 18243 April – George Clarke arrives in the Bay of Islands having taken passage from Sydney on board the French corvette La Coquille. La Coquille is commanded by Louis Isidore Duperrey, with Jules Dumont d'Urville as second-in-command, and will go on to complete a global circumnavigation.source
  • 182623 September – The New Zealand Company agents aboard the Rosanna complete the purchase of 'Pakatu' (Pakatoa), 'Taratora' (Rotoroa), 'Ponue' (Ponui) and 'Pake' (Pakihi) Islands in the Hauraki Gulf. They then become frightened of the local Māori, change their minds almost immediately, sell up and leave for the Bay of Islands.source
  • 183310 May – James Busby arrives in the Bay of Islands on HMS Imogene.source
  • 1834Two Māori converts returning from the Bay of Islands introduce Christianity to Gisborne. (see also 1838)source
  • 183430 December – William Colenso, printer/missionary for the Church Missionary Society, arrives at Paihia in the Bay of Islands.source
  • 1835December – Charles Darwin witnesses a game of cricket at the Bay of Islands.source
  • 1838Three Gisborne Māori, having had Christian instruction in the Bay of Islands, return as catechists.source
  • 1839The Weller brothers whaling settlement at Otakou on the shore of Otago Harbour has the largest population of Europeans in New Zealand outside the Bay of Islands/Hokianga.source
  • 184029 January — Lieutenant-Governor Captain William Hobson arrives in the Bay of Islands. With Hobson are the members of the Executive Council, Colonial Secretary Willoughby Shortland, Colonial Treasurer George Cooper and Attorney-General Francis Fisher and the Legislative Council comprising the Executive Council and three Justices of the Peace.source

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