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Jan 10, 1000
The first people to live in the place now known as Christchurch were Moa Hunters before they became extinct.
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Period: Jan 10, 1000 to
Canterbury History
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Captain James Cook in his ship first sighted the Canterbury Peninsula.
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sailors from the Governor Bligh landed that Europeans first set foot on Banks Peninsula.
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Major Thomas Bunbury arrived on the HMS Herald to collect the signatures of the Ngāi Tahu chiefs for the Treaty of Waitangi.
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First house on the Canterbury Plains, Riccarton built by the Deans brothers.