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European settlers in New Zealand, also known locally as Pākehā settlers, began arriving in the country in the early 19th century as immigrants of various types, initially settling around the Bay of Islands mostly. Large-scale organised migration from Britain to other regions began in the 1840s, such as to Wellington, Canterbury and Otago.
There were 3,383,742 people identifying as being part of the European ethnic group at the 2023 New Zealand census, making up 67.8% of New Zealand's population. [1] This is an increase of 85,878 people (2.6%) since the 2018 census , and an increase of 414,351 people (14.0%) since the 2013 census .
The country's economy suffered in the aftermath of the 1973 global energy crisis and the loss of New Zealand's biggest export market upon Britain's entry to the European Economic Community. [178] Robert Muldoon , Prime Minister from 1975 to 1984, and his Third National Government responded to the crises of the 1970s by attempting to preserve ...
Eleven months later, on 12 December 1840, Frederic Alonzo Carrington, the 32-year-old Chief Surveyor for the Plymouth Company, arrived in Wellington with the task of creating a 44 km 2 (11,000 acre) settlement in New Zealand for people of the West Country. Wakefield had already been informed that the Plymouth Company was to take over some of ...
The French were among the earlier European settlers in New Zealand, and established a colony at Akaroa in the South Island. [2] Captain Jean-François-Marie de Surville is the first known Frenchman to have visited New Zealand, [3] in 1769, and by the 1830s, French whalers were operating off the Banks Peninsula. [3] [4]
Port Molyneux is a tiny settlement on the coast of South Otago, New Zealand, close to the north-easternmost point of The Catlins.Now home only to farmland, it was a thriving port in the early years of New Zealand's European settlement.
William Tucker (c. 16 May 1784 – December 1817) was a British convict, a sealer, a trader in human heads, an Otago settler, and New Zealand’s first art dealer.. Tucker is the man who stole a preserved Māori head and started the retail trade in them.
December: New Zealand ends its role in the Vietnam War when Troops are withdrawn under the new Labour Government and Compulsory Military Training is Abolished. 1973. Naval frigate dispatched in protest against French nuclear testing in the Pacific. New Zealand's population reaches three million. Oil price hike means worst terms of trade in 30 ...