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1280
Eastern Polynesian peoples arrive in NZ (Early Māori)
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Dutch explorer Abel Tasman ‘discovers’ NZ
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James Cook makes his first visit to NZ on the Endeavour
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The first European Women arrive in NZ
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Samuel Marsden, a British missionary arrives in the Bay of Islands
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The New Zealand Company (England) comes to buy land for settlement
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Settlers from England arrive aboard Aurora, Port Nicholson, Wellington
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Settlers from Scotland arrive in Dunedin
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English settlers arrive in Canterbury
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Settlers from England and Ireland, coming for the gold rushes
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Settlers from China, Germany and Scandinavia come
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Dalmatian settlers arrive from an area now called Croatia
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Jewish refugees come from Central Europe (Germany, Austria)
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Refugees from Poland begin to arrive, fleeing World War 2
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Immigrants from Greece, Italy, Poland, former Yugoslavia
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Skilled Dutch migrants come about this time from the Netherlands
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Pacific migrants begin to come (including Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands)
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Migrants arrive from Britain, Europe and North America
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Boat people arrive from Vietnam, escaping the war
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Some Cambodian refugees arrive, fleeing atrocities in their country
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Business people from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan begin to arrive
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More Migrants from Britain, and some from South Africa arrive