Canterbury

By Olivia_Is_Not_Awesome
  • 1000

    First inhabitants- 1000AC

    First inhabitants- 1000AC
    The first inhabitants arrive in NZ to settle in their new home, an island filled with swamps, wetlands, lush forest and alpine mountains.

  • Cook sights the Canterbury Peninsula

    Cook sights the Canterbury Peninsula
    British explorer Captain James Cook sights New Zealand from his ship, the Endevour. He spends a while mapping the cost before deciding to land on the new country he has found.

  • Europeans land on Banks Peninsula

    Europeans land on Banks Peninsula
    Captain J. Cook and his crew decide to land on New Zealand, on Banks Peninsula. They explore and meet the local maori tribes living in the area. This is the start of the colonisation.

  • Iwi migrate to the South Island/ Te Waipounamu - 18th Century

    Iwi migrate to the South Island/ Te Waipounamu - 18th Century
    The first Iwi from the North Island split off from the group and travel down to the more mountainous South Island after a great war that had crippled the tribes, where they began to create their own tribes, myths and culture.

  • Te Tiriti o Waitangi signed

    Te Tiriti o Waitangi signed
    The Treaty Of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and Pakeha settlers as an attempt to cull the wars and make the country more peaceful, however the british begin to violate the treaty and take maori land very soon after the treaty is signed, and some tribes do not sign and continue fighting instead.

  • Tracks developed in Ōtautahi between Kaiapoi and Rāpaki

    Tracks developed in Ōtautahi between Kaiapoi and Rāpaki
    Tracks are developed in early Christchurch ( Otautahi ) Between trading hubs and tribes to create an easier access for maori tribes to get to the central trading hub.

  • Kaiapoi established by Ngāi Tahu as a central trading kainga

    Kaiapoi established by Ngāi Tahu as a central trading kainga
    Kaiapoi is founded to be a central trading hub for maori tribes and subtribes to barter and exchange their goods for things that were scarce, or to get things that you could not usually gather or create where they camped/lived.

  • Māori population declines

    Māori population declines
    After the British explorers bring diseases, rats and other things like that, the native maori people slowly begin to decline in their numbers as their food and land is taken away from them, and from contracting diseases and the war over the land that the british are trying to take.