Category: New Zealand history

Australasia 1788

First Fleet

Prior to the American Revolutionary War...

Australasia 1789

Mutiny on the Bounty

Even as the British were establishing the...

Australasia 1794

Australasia and the French Revolution

In 1789 the French Revolution forced King...

Australasia 1801

Napoleonic France in Australasia

In 1794–95 the revolutionary French Republic...

Australasia 1803

Expanding from New South Wales

Baudin’s French exploratory expedition to...

Australasia 1808

Rum Rebellion

In 1806 William Bligh was made Governor of New...

Australasia 1811

Interregnum in the Dutch East Indies

France’s occupation of the Netherlands during...

Australasia 1815

Settling the Australian interior

Until the 1810s all British attempts to...

Australasia 1820

Australasia after the Napoleonic Wars

In 1815 the Napoleonic Wars came to an end and...

Australasia 1825

Colony of Van Diemen’s Land

The island of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) was...

Australasia 1829

Swan River Colony

Initial British claims to Australia were...

Australasia 1832

Musket Wars

The arrival of muskets and other European...

Australasia 1836

Province of South Australia

From 1829 a British group led by Edward Gibbon...

Australasia 1840

Treaty of Waitangi

In the late 1830s European land purchases in...

Australasia 1840

Colony of New Zealand

After the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi...