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Arrival of Tainui Waka
Auckland's first settlers Te Waiohua and Te Ahiwaru arrive at Ihumatao. -
Auckland's market garden
One newspaper said the European residents of Auckland would have literally starved were it not for the produce that Maori provided them. -
Land confiscation
1100 hectares of land at Ihumatao was confiscated by the Crown as punishment for the community's allegiance to the King Movement. Residents banished to the Waikato. -
Pakeha settlers arrive
Confiscated land was redistributed to a handful of European settlers. One of those was the Wallaces. -
Reoccupation by iwi
Maori returned to Ihumatao in the 1890's to find their land occupied by Pakeha settlers. -
Compensation Court returns a small plot.
A small plot of 0.067 hectare was returned to iwi. Here they established a papakainga, a village of about 80 homes adjacent to the historic reserve. -
Quarrying of Ancestral Maunga
Two volcanic cones, Otuataua and Maungataketake were quarried in the 1950's to provide aggregate for the airport runway developments. -
Sewerage ponds constructed
In 1960 access to traditional fish and shellfish grounds was closed by the Auckland Drainage Board to build oxidation ponds around Puketutu Island for the city's new wastewater management system. -
Oruarangi Creek reconnected to the sea
In 2003 the oxidation ponds were removed. Efforts were made to rejuvenate the Oruarangi stream ecosystem. -
Airport runway extensions
85-90 Koiwi (pre European skeletal remains of ancestors) were desecrated by excavations for a second runway which disturbed 600 year old burial sites. -
Land designated for Future Urban Use
Land west of the airport was designated for Future Urban Use -
Industrial spill pollutes ancestral river
In 2013, freight company Jenners Worldwide spilled more than 1000 litres of methyl violet industrial dye into the stormwater system killing all life in the Oruarangi Creek. -
Land designated as Special Housing Area
Auckland Council designated land at Ihumatao as Special Housing Area 62 -
S.O.U.L. Established
S.O.U.L. (Save Our Unique Landscape) was established to fight against the further loss of land and inappropriate development at Ihumatao -
Fletcher's develop residential concept plan
The Wallace block was purchased by Fletcher Residential and a concept plan developed for the development of 480 new houses -
Encampment begins
Gathering to celebrate Parihaka Day results in the start of an Encampment leading to the formation of the Kaitiaki village.
