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TE TIRITI O WAITANGI
The Treaty of Waitangi is signed. (At the time, the Māori population is around 80,000, the Pākehā population around 2,000.) -
Hone Heke
In anger, Hone Heke cut down the British flag pole not once but three times between July 1844 and January 1845. But only Because he felt betrayed. -
Beginnings
The New Zealand Wars were fought between 1845 and 1872. They were about who controlled the country and who owned the land. When Europeans arrived, Māori had already been in Aotearoa for more than five hundred years. -
The Taranaki war
The Maori decided to form a Maori king to prevent Maori land sales. Browne sold some sacred land knowing that it was causing trouble. this started the first battle of the Taranaki war. -
The Waikato war
George grey asked to be sent back to NZ so that he could fix the problems going on there. He was determined to take the king off his thrown. He created an army of fourteen thousand men. The Maori were overpowered. -
Battle Rangiriri
The first major battle was at Rangiriri on 20 November 1863. After a day of intense fighting, most of the Māori defenders left the pā overnight, and the British claimed victory. -
TĪTOKOWARU AND TE KOOTI
Maori allied to the government. Troops moved through Māori settlements, tearing crops out of the ground and burning houses. Then, during 1868, two Māori leaders emerged to challenge the government and spread fear among settlers. TĪTOKOWARU AND TE KOOTI -
Escape
Te Kooti and almost three hundred followers land on the East Coast after they escape from the Chatham Islands.
