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May 7, 2024 · He came back in 1839 and landed a herd of 50 cattle near Akaroa. The first attempt at settling on the plains was made by James Herriot of Sydney. He arrived with two small groups of farmers in April 1840. Their first crop was successful, but a plague of rats made them decide to leave.
May 7, 2024 · By 1835 the first whaling ships were operating out of Lyttelton and two years later the first shore whaling station was set up at Peraki Bay. First settlers. The "Sarah and Elizabeth" on 12 April 1840 landed Messrs Herriott, McGillivray, Ellis, Shaw (and his wife) and McKinnon (with his wife and children) - the first European settlers on the plain.
May 7, 2024 · The first four ships. Children’s information files, Christchurch City Libraries; Geoffrey W. Rice, Christchurch changing: an illustrated history. Christchurch, 2008; New Zealand's heritage Vol.2. Wellington, [1971-73] First four ships resources in Christchurch City Libraries’ catalogue; Related Pages. Digital Collection: Emigration
1 day ago · History of England. Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
1 day ago · The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era.
1 day ago · t. e. England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk have indicated. [1] The earliest evidence for early modern humans in Northwestern Europe, a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavern in 1927, was re-dated in 2011 to between 41,000 and 44,000 years old. [2]
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May 27, 2024 · Philip ran a bakery in the area in the 1940s and 50s and lived one block over in a government housing settlement on Chrystal Street. He gave the Mayor, E. H. Andrews, £5 for the first baby to be born to residents of the street in acknowledgement of the naming.
