Category: New Zealand history

Australasia 1849

Settlement of the South Island

Early colonial New Zealand saw a number of...

Australasia 1851

Colony of Victoria

Following a decade of settler pressure, the...

Australasia 1854

Eureka Rebellion

Taking advantage of the 1851 gold rush, the...

Australasia 1855

Tongan Intervention in Fiji

In the early 1840s war broke out in Fiji...

Australasia 1859

Colony of Queensland

Although there had been a call for...

Australasia 1862

Crossing the Outback

The possibility of connecting Australia to the...

Australasia 1864

Invasion of the Waikato

In 1858 a Māori King was proclaimed in the...

Australasia 1865

Fijian Confederacy

Facing political instability, rising Tongan...

Australasia 1868

‘Hauhau’ Wars

After the British victory in the Waikato in...

Australasia 1872

Australian Overland Telegraph Line

From the mid-1850s the Australian colonies...

Australasia 1877

British Western Pacific Territories

In 1871 Cakobau united Fiji and proclaimed...

Australasia 1884

New Guinea Protectorates

Concerned about increasing German activity in...

Australasia 1889

Samoan Crisis

In the late nineteenth century Britain,...

Australasia 1893

Partition of the Solomon Islands

When Germany annexed northeast New Guinea in...

Australasia 1899

Second Samoan Civil War

In 1899, Samoa broke into its second civil war...