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2 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.
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2 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.
3 days ago · The British colonization of the Americas is the history of establishment of control, settlement, and colonization of the continents of the Americas by England, Scotland, and, after 1707, Great Britain. Colonization efforts began in the late 16th century with failed attempts by England to establish permanent colonies in the North.
2 days ago · This page is a history of Hagley Park in Christchurch. The Avon, Christchurch [ca. 1900] The Deans. When the Deans brothers arrived in Christchurch in 1842, they travelled up the Otakaro river (Avon) in a whaler until the shallow water forced them to use a Māori
2 days ago · Search or browse the interactive Christchurch Streets map to find the origins of our city's street names. Researched by Christchurch City Libraries, the streets information comes from published works, manuscripts, interviews, as a well as Christchurch City Council archives.
2 days ago · Every year, 19 days after Pentecost, the Catholic Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. But where did that tradition originate? Devotion to the wounded heart of Jesus has its origins in the eleventh century, when pious Christians meditated on the Five Wounds of Christ.
2 days ago · It is the sole home, for example, of the long-beaked, flightless kiwi, the ubiquitous nickname for New Zealanders. New Zealand was the largest country in Polynesia when it was annexed by Great Britain in 1840. Thereafter it was successively a crown colony, a self-governing colony (1856), and a dominion (1907).
