Category: New Zealand history

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...

Australasia 1846

Colony of North Australia

The 1830s and 1840s saw the phasing out of...

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...