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Banks peninsula spotted
Captain Cook spots banks peninsula on the Endeavour, initially naming it Banks Island but found it was a peninsula later on. -
Europeans land on Banks peninsula
The sealing ship Governor Bligh landed and the first Europeans set foot on Banks Peninsula -
Maori population fall
Hundreds of Maori died from European diseases such as influenza and measles. There was also conflict between the groups of Ngai tahu. -
Treaty of Waitangi
Major Thomas Bunbury arrived on the HMS Herald to get signatures from Ngāi Tahu chiefs. -
Canterbury settlement plans
In November 1847 John Robert Godley and Edward Gibbon Wakefield met to plan the Canterbury settlement. -
Canterbury association
The Canterbury association was formed in early 1848 and it was decided to name the capital city Christchurch after the college John Godley had gone to at Oxford University. -
The first four ship loads of settlers
The Randolph, the Cressy, the Sir George Seymour and the Charlotte Jane. -
First school opened in Lyttelton
First school opened in Lyttelton by Henry Jacobs. -
Christchurch city
Christchurch became New Zealand’s first city in 1856 under the terms of a royal charter, because a cathedral. -
Health
With the increase of people in Canterbury there were epidemics of Diptheria and 152 people died in the Typhoid epidemic. -
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford gains an MA in mathematics and physics at Canterbury College.