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The following lists events that happened during 1852 in New Zealand.
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The following lists events that happened during 1852 in New Zealand.
The estimated population of New Zealand at the end of 1852 is 63,100 Māori and 27,633 non-Māori. [1]
Thomas Spencer Forsaith, JP, was a New Zealand politician and an Auckland draper. According to some historians, he was the country's second premier, although a more conventional view states that neither he nor his predecessor should properly be given that title.
New Ulster was a province of the Colony of New Zealand that existed between 1841 and 1853. It was named after the Irish province of Ulster.
Major General Robert Henry Wynyard was a British Army officer and New Zealand colonial administrator, serving at various times as Lieutenant Governor of New Ulster Province, Administrator of the Government, and was the first Superintendent of Auckland Province.
The following lists events that happened during 1863 in New Zealand.
The following lists events that happened during 1861 in New Zealand.
The following lists events that happened during 1860 in New Zealand.
The following lists events that happened during 1857 in New Zealand.
The following lists events that happened during 1855 in New Zealand.
The following lists events that happened during 1854 in New Zealand.
The following lists events that happened during 1853 in New Zealand.
The following lists events that happened during 1851 in New Zealand.
The following lists events that happened during 1849 in New Zealand.
The following lists events that happened during 1848 in New Zealand.
The following lists events that happened during 1846 in New Zealand.
The following lists events that happened during 1843 in New Zealand.
The following lists events that happened during 1842 in New Zealand.
The following lists events that happened during 1841 in New Zealand.
1840 is considered a watershed year in the history of New Zealand: The Treaty of Waitangi is signed, British sovereignty over New Zealand is proclaimed, organised European settlement begins, and Auckland and Wellington are both founded.
The Colony of New Zealand was a colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that encompassed the islands of New Zealand. The colony was proclaimed by its British settler population in 1841, and lasted until 1907, when the Dominion of New Zealand was established. The sovereignty of Britain over the islands was initially nominal, before becoming substantive upon the conclusion of the New Zealand Wars, after which Māori sovereignty was essentially overcome. The power of the British Government was vested in the governor of New Zealand. The colony had three successive capitals: Okiato in 1841; Auckland from 1841 to 1865; and Wellington from 1865, which continues as the capital of New Zealand today.
PS Governor Wynyard, was a small steam ship, the first to be built in New Zealand, and was launched in 1851. She was a paddle steamer schooner, built of pohutukawa, with kauri planks. In 1853 she left her Tamaki River service in Auckland and was sold in Melbourne in 1852 during the gold rush, but was soon serving as a ferry in Tasmania, until she had her primitive engines removed in 1858. She sprang a leak and became a beached wreck in 1873.