1829 in New Zealand

The following lists events that happened during 1829 in New Zealand.

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

• Head of State – King George IV
• Governor of New South Wales – General Ralph Darling

Events

• 29 November – Alfred Nesbitt Brown arrives in Paihia. He is the third ordained minister in New Zealand.

Undated

• James Farrow, the first trader known to have frequented the Tauranga area, arrives for the first time. (see also 1838)
• A whaling station is established at Preservation Inlet on the south-west corner of the South Island by Captain William Anglem.

Births

• 14 February (in England): Richard Burgess, murderer.
• 31 March (in England): Maria Rye, social reformer.
• 30 April (in Germany): Ferdinand von Hochstetter, geologist.
• 22 July: William Leonard Williams, Māori language scholar and Bishop of Waiapu.
• 26 November (in England): Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore, Governor of New Zealand.

Undated

• Frederick Joseph Moss, politician.
• (in England): Henry Richmond, Superintendent of Taranaki.

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