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  3. my.christchurchcitylibraries.com › christchurchEarly Christchurch – a brief history | Christchurch City ...

    4 days ago · The first people to live in the place now known as Christchurch were moa hunters, who probably arrived there as early as AD 1000. The hunters cleared large areas of mataī and tōtara forest by fire and by about 1450 the moa had been killed off.

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › History_of_ChristchurchHistory of Christchurch - Wikipedia

    5 days ago · The first public radio service in Christchurch — 3YA — was established in 1926; New Zealand's first live sports radio broadcast was made from Christchurch later that year. [120] [121] [119] The first set of traffic lights was installed in Christchurch in 1930 at the intersection of Cashel and Colombo Streets . [122]

  5. my.christchurchcitylibraries.com › christchurchCity of Christchurch European Settlement: Historical Note

    4 days ago · However, John Robert Godley, leader of the Canterbury colonists, who arrived on 12 April, 1850 prior to the first four ships, was a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, and it is after his old college that the City is named.

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › History_of_New_ZealandHistory of New Zealand - Wikipedia

    4 days ago · The human history of New Zealand can be dated back to between 1320 and 1350 CE, when the main settlement period started, after it was discovered and settled by Polynesians, who developed a distinct Māori culture.

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    1 day ago · Early Archaic period objects from the Wairau Bar archaeological site, on display at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch. The earliest period of Māori settlement, known as the "Archaic", "Moahunter" or "Colonisation" period, dates from the time of arrival to c. 1500.

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  9. my.christchurchcitylibraries.com › riccarton-bushRiccarton Bush (Pūtaringamotu), Riccarton House and Deans ...

    4 days ago · In the 1848 Christmas Day agreement signed between the Deans brothers and the agents for the Canterbury Association, Captain Thomas and William Fox, the Deans gave up half of what was now to be known as Riccarton Bush, to provide timber and firewood for the new settlers.

  10. www.britannica.com › topic › TasmanianTasmanian Aboriginal people | History & Facts | Britannica

    3 days ago · Their population upon the arrival of European explorers in the 17th and 18th centuries has been estimated at about 4,000. Historically, the Tasmanian Aboriginal people spoke languages that were unintelligible to mainland Aboriginal peoples.

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