The following lists events that happened during 1820 in New Zealand.
Incumbents
Regal and viceregal
Any reference to New Zealand in a legal rather than geographic sense prior to 1840 is complex and unclear. When the British colony of
New South Wales was founded in 1788 it nominally included New Zealand as far as 43°39'S (approximately halfway down the
South Island).
27 February –
Samuel Marsden arrives on his third visit to New Zealand aboard
HMS Dromedary. He unsuccessfully attempts to dissuade
Thomas Kendall from his impending visit to England.[3] The Dromedary spends 5-month getting timber in
Whangaroa Harbour.[4]
2 March – Kendall,
Hongi Hika, and Hongi's nephew
Waikato from Rangihoua, sail for England in the
whalerNew Zealander. Kendall confers with Professor Samuel Lee at
Cambridge on the publication of Grammar and Vocabulary of the New Zealand Language. The book is published at the end of the year. The well known painting of Kendall with the two chiefs is painted by James Barry. Hongi's main purpose in this trip is to obtain
muskets, at which he is eventually successful.[5][6][7][8]
3 May – A plough is used for the first time in New Zealand when
John Gare Butler drives a team of six bullocks at
Kerikeri.[9]
27 August – Captain R.A. Cruise of the 84th Regiment visits Tamaki Makaurau on the colonial schooner Prince Regent.
9 November – Marsden again visits Tamaki Makaurau, this time with Butler. They visit
Tamaki River and cross the isthmus to Manukau Harbour and visit
Onehunga and the
Manukau Heads but cannot exit the harbour because of the bar at the entrance.[11]
^Hall, D.O.W. (1966).
"WAKEFIELD, Edward Jerningham". from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
^No Mean City by Stuart Perry (1969, Wellington City Council)
^
abcdeWilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer.
OCLC154283103.
The following lists events that happened during 1820 in New Zealand.
Incumbents
Regal and viceregal
Any reference to New Zealand in a legal rather than geographic sense prior to 1840 is complex and unclear. When the British colony of
New South Wales was founded in 1788 it nominally included New Zealand as far as 43°39'S (approximately halfway down the
South Island).
27 February –
Samuel Marsden arrives on his third visit to New Zealand aboard
HMS Dromedary. He unsuccessfully attempts to dissuade
Thomas Kendall from his impending visit to England.[3] The Dromedary spends 5-month getting timber in
Whangaroa Harbour.[4]
2 March – Kendall,
Hongi Hika, and Hongi's nephew
Waikato from Rangihoua, sail for England in the
whalerNew Zealander. Kendall confers with Professor Samuel Lee at
Cambridge on the publication of Grammar and Vocabulary of the New Zealand Language. The book is published at the end of the year. The well known painting of Kendall with the two chiefs is painted by James Barry. Hongi's main purpose in this trip is to obtain
muskets, at which he is eventually successful.[5][6][7][8]
3 May – A plough is used for the first time in New Zealand when
John Gare Butler drives a team of six bullocks at
Kerikeri.[9]
27 August – Captain R.A. Cruise of the 84th Regiment visits Tamaki Makaurau on the colonial schooner Prince Regent.
9 November – Marsden again visits Tamaki Makaurau, this time with Butler. They visit
Tamaki River and cross the isthmus to Manukau Harbour and visit
Onehunga and the
Manukau Heads but cannot exit the harbour because of the bar at the entrance.[11]
^Hall, D.O.W. (1966).
"WAKEFIELD, Edward Jerningham". from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
^No Mean City by Stuart Perry (1969, Wellington City Council)
^
abcdeWilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer.
OCLC154283103.