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Apihai Te Kawau moves the majority of Ngāti Whātua of the Tāmaki area from Onehunga-Māngere to Remuera-Ōrākei in the winter of 1840. [47] Auckland founded. 1841 St Paul's founded, Auckland's first church. Mr Powell's School founded, Auckland's first school. 1842 Auckland designated capital of New Zealand. [48]
Auckland was officially declared New Zealand's capital in 1841, [17] and the transfer of the administration from Russell in the Bay of Islands was completed in 1842. [citation needed] Even in 1840 Port Nicholson (now Wellington Harbour) seemed the obvious choice for an administrative capital.
1840 Named for George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland NZ Parliament Electorates surrounding area, and manufacturing in the city itself.[12] It has been the nation's largest city throughout most of its history. Today, Auckland's central business district is New Zealand's leading economic hub. The University of Auckland, founded in 1883, is the largest
Wellington has been the capital of New Zealand since 1865. New Zealand's first capital city was Old Russell in 1840–41. Auckland was the second capital from 1841 until 1865, when Parliament was permanently moved to Wellington after an argument that persisted for a decade.
[33] [34] [35] Auckland was founded on 18 September 1840 and was officially declared New Zealand's capital in 1841, [36] [37] and the transfer of the administration from Russell (now Old Russell) in the Bay of Islands was completed in 1842.
Auckland Weekly News 1901 Christmas Number Auckland Weekly News 1903. The Weekly News was founded by the Daily Southern Cross on 25 November 1863, primarily for country readers who couldn't get the paper every day. [3] It was followed on 7 April 1866 by the Weekly Herald, a similar paper from the publisher of the New Zealand Herald. [4]
[2] [5] It was also the site of Auckland's first church, St Paul's, founded within a year of the foundation of Auckland in 1841, and one of the city's best known landmarks for 40 years. [6] The point received its European name in 1848 from HMS Britomart, the crew of which undertook a detailed survey of the harbour of the new capital. [3]
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.