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Weston did come with a substantial change, telling the Leiden group that parties in England had obtained a land grant north of the existing Virginia territory to be called New England. This was only partially true; the new grant did come to pass, but not until late in 1620 when the Plymouth Council for New England received its charter. It was ...
The Pilgrims did not have a patent to settle this area, and some passengers began to question their right to land, objecting that there was no legal authority to establish a colony and hence no guarantee of retaining ownership over any land that they had improved.
The history of Australia from 1788 to 1850 covers the early British colonial period of Australia's history. This started with the arrival in 1788 of the First Fleet of British ships at Port Jackson on the lands of the Eora, and the establishment of the penal colony of New South Wales as part of the British Empire.
Surviving immigrants from the first six ships celebrate 75 years in Christchurch (Godley Statue, 1925)Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Irish-born John Robert Godley, the guiding forces within the Canterbury Association, organised an offshoot of the New Zealand Company, a settlement in a planned English enclave in an area now part of the Wairarapa in the North Island of New Zealand.
Māori New Zealand-born Australia-based actor and musician Russell Crowe. Under various arrangements since the 1920s, there has been a free flow of people between Australia and New Zealand. [42] Since 1973 the informal Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement has allowed for the free movement of citizens of one nation to the other. The only major ...
Mayflower was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached what is today the United States, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on November 21 [O.S. November 11], 1620.
The premier of New Zealand, Richard Seddon, opposed the idea of uniting the colonies. He set up a Royal Commission on the topic in 1900. Despite some support for becoming an Australian state from the farming community which feared new trade restrictions if New Zealand did not unite with Australia, there was majority opposition to the idea.
Location of major engagements of the Flagstaff War. The signing of the Treaty of Waitangi started on 6 February 1840, and Governor William Hobson believed that it established the legal basis for the British sovereignty over New Zealand, [7] while Ngāpuhi, the largest and most powerful northern tribe, believed the contrary, that they had entered into a partnership with the Crown.