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6 days ago · 1876 - 1900 : important events and developments. Sources. First inhabitants. 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.
6 days ago · The first meeting of the Christchurch Municipal Council was held on 3 March 1862. In November of that year it became the Christchurch City Council by virtue of the Christchurch City Council Ordinance, but between June and October 1868, was known as the Christchurch Borough Council in compliance with the Municipal Corporations Act passed by ...
6 days ago · The four ships left England in September 1850 for Canterbury. Before they left, a public banquet and dance was held for those families who were buying land in the new settlement. A church service was held on 1 September in St Paul’s Cathedral for all the Pilgrims, as they were called.
6 days ago · Riccarton Bush today. Riccarton Bush is administered by the Riccarton Bush Trust which was established by an Act of Parliament in 1914. The Trustees are appointed by the Royal Society, the Deans family, and the Christchurch City Council. Search our catalogue. Riccarton Bush; Riccarton House; Deans, Jane, 1823-1911; Deans, John, 1820-1854
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]
Tangata whenua — the first peoples of Aotearoa. Evidence suggests Polynesian people first arrived in New Zealand around 1250 to 1300 CE, coming from East Polynesia in canoes. By the time of Dutch explorer Abel Tasman’s brief encounter in 1642 and Captain James Cook’s several visits from 1769, Māori society and culture were well ...
6 days ago · Culture of New Zealand. 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.
