The Treaty of Waitangi

By GoodoldJasper
  • 1642 BCE

    1642

    1642
    Abel Tasman came to NZ.
  • 1200

    1200

    1200
    The first Polynesians arrived in NZ.

  • 1769

    1769
    Captain Cook arrived in NZ.

  • 1790

    1790
    Pakeha arrived to hunt seals and whales.

  • 1830

    1830
    Around two thousand Europeans were living in NZ, most of them British and many more wanting to come.

  • 1835

    1835
    James Busby created the Declaration of Independence. It was created to show NZ was an Independent nation.

  • 1840

    1840
    William Hobson arrived in the Bay of Islands. He had been sent to secure British rule over NZ. He then started to write a treaty. Very few missionaries spoke Maori and few Maori spoke English, so a missionary named Henry Williams and his son Edward translated the treaty into Maori.

  • 1840

    1840
    The treaty of Waitangi was signed and translated into Maori. Chief Hono Heke signed first so it looked like ever over chief followed him.

  • 1845

    1845
    The NZ wars started between the natives and the British. The Maori with barely any weapons were on a disadvantage which leads to them losing and having to retreat and surrender.

  • 1865

    1865
    The Native Land Court is established.

  • 1872

    1872
    The NZ wars ended and the Maori had lost the war.

  • 1900

    1900
    Lots of Maori land has been taken off them because of the NZ wars and it had been bought very cheaply or unfairyly. Without land maori couldn't grow or catch food for there familes. No land also ment they had lower chance of getting a income, over the decade maori protested over the land.

  • 1906

    1906
    James Carroll makes his speech in parliment.

  • 1960

    1960
    Waitangi Day is established as a national holiday of commentation, thirteen years later it becomes a national holiday.

  • 1975

    1975
    The tribunal's powers are extened to investagate historic claims.

  • 1985

    1985
    The Watangi Tribunal is set up and extend.

  • 1989

    1989
    The first modern treaty settlement is agreeded over land at Waitomo Caves.

  • 2018

    2018
    Jacinda Adern spends 5 days in watangi meeting with maori. It is the longest visist any prime minster has had so far.