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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]
Even in 1840 Port Nicholson (now Wellington Harbour) seemed the obvious choice for an administrative capital. Centrally situated at the south of the North Island, close to the South Island and growing fast, it had a lot to commend it. But the New Zealand Company and the Wakefield brothers had founded and continued to dominate Port Nicholson.
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.
[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.
The Colony of New Zealand was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1841 to 1907. British authority was vested in a governor.The colony had three successive capitals: Okiato (or Old Russell) in 1841; Auckland from 1841 to 1865; and Wellington from 1865.
[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.
On 21 May 1840, in response to the creation of a "republic" by the New Zealand Company settlers of Port Nicholson (Wellington), who were laying out a new town under the flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand, [9] Hobson asserted British sovereignty over the whole of New Zealand, despite the incompleteness of the treaty signing. [10]
The Māori King Movement under Tāwhiao makes peace with the Auckland settler government. [31] 9 December: 1881 New Zealand general election. 1882. First shipment of frozen meat leaves Port Chalmers for England on the Dunedin. "State" visit of King Tawhiao to Auckland – civic reception, banquet & fireworks display. 1883