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The only recorded ship visit is a 3-day visit to Hauraki (the Waihou River between the Hauraki Plains and Coromandel Peninsula) to collect timber. It is possible that sealers visit Dusky Sound and that whalers are off the north-east coast but no specific records of any such activity remains.[1]
Events
- March: HMS Reliance, Captain Henry Waterhouse, discovers and charts the Antipodes Islands.[1]
- 11 May: The Betsey, Captain John Myers, leaves Port Jackson for Peru. En route she visits Hauraki for three days to collect timber. On board are two pākehā women, the first to visit the North Island.[1]
- Undated
- Samuel Marsden becomes the principal, and at the time only remaining, chaplain for New South Wales.[2][3]
Births
- 18 July (in England): William Williams, first Bishop of Waiapu.[4]
- 1 October (in England): James Reddy Clendon, settler and public official (died 1872)[5]
- approximate
- c.1800 (in England): John Guard, whaler and trader, first permanent European resident in the South Island.[6]
Deaths
See also
References
- 1 2 3 Salmond, Anne. Between Worlds. 1997. Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd. ISBN 0-670-87787-5.
- ↑ New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Samuel Marsden Biography
- ↑ Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Samuel Marsden
- ↑ 'Williams, William', from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966. Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 18-September–2007 url
- ↑ DNZB: James Reddy Clendon
- ↑ Foster, Bernard J. (18 September 2007). "GUARD, John, from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966". Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
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