1816 in New Zealand

The following lists events that happened during 1816 in New Zealand.

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

• Head of State – King George III. With Prince George, Prince of Wales as prince regent.
• Governor of New South Wales – Lachlan Macquarie

Events

• 22 January – Large numbers of Māori from North Cape, Whangaroa and Thames visit the mission at Rangihoua.
• February – Thomas and Elizabeth Hansen arrive at Oihi, Rangihoua from Port Jackson on the Active. They are the first non-missionary European family to settle in New Zealand. They eventually raised 11 children who all lived to at least their late 60s.
• March – Tui and TÄ«tore, who arrived the previous year, leave Port Jackson (Sydney) for England in HMS Kangaroo. While there they may have helped Professor Samuel Lee start his Maori dictionary.
• 16 August – Thomas Kendall starts the first school in New Zealand, at Rangihoua. The opening roll is 33.

Births

• 31 July (in Ireland): Trevor Chute, leader of British forces in the Second Taranaki War.

Undated

• William Daldy, politician
• (in England): Edward Dobson, Canterbury provincial engineer
• William Guyton, Mayor of Wellington
• John Wheeler King, the first European male born in New Zealand to reach adulthood
• Henry Tancred, politician

Deaths

approximate

• Charlotte Badger; one of the first two female settlers in New Zealand.

See also

• List of years in New Zealand
• Timeline of New Zealand history
• History of New Zealand
• Military history of New Zealand
• Timeline of the New Zealand environment
• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

References