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- 1910 Hocken Library opens at Otago Museum
- 1910 Champion rower Dick Arnst wins world title race on Zambezi River
- 1910 First female ascent of Aoraki/Mt Cook
- 1911 Bookies take last bets on New Zealand racecourses
- 1911 New Zealand’s first controlled powered flight
- 1911 New Zealand Coat of Arms warranted
- 1911 Pawelka's last prison break
- 1912 TSS Earnslaw launched on Lake Wakatipu
- 1912 News of Titanic sinking reaches New Zealand
- 1912 Public Service Act passed into law
- 1912 Striker fatally wounded at Waihī
- 1913 Smallpox epidemic kills 55
- 1913 HMS New Zealand begins tour of nation’s ports
- 1913 Violence flares on Wellington wharves
- 1913 Battle of Featherston Street
- 1913 Waterfront strike ends
- 1914 Scotland crosses Southland in pioneering flight
- 1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- 1914 New Zealand enters the First World War
- 1914 First fatal NZ casualty of the First World War
- 1914 New Zealand force captures German Samoa
- 1914 Eruption on Whakaari (White Island) kills 10 people
- 1914 Forty-three miners killed in explosion at Huntly
- 1914 Main Body of NZEF sails to war
- 1915 Turkish ambush kills New Zealand seaman
- 1915 Māori soldiers sail to war
- 1915 Anzac soldiers riot in Cairo's Wazzir brothel district
- 1915 Gallipoli landings
- 1915 Kiwi Wimbledon winner killed in battle
- 1915 First Gallipoli wounded arrive home
- 1915 Wellington Battalion captures Chunuk Bair
- 1915 New Zealanders attack Hill 60
- 1915 New Zealand nurses lost in Marquette sinking
- 1915 Evacuation of Gallipoli begins
- 1916 New Zealand Division formed
- 1916 Arrest of Rua Kēnana
- 1916 New Zealand Division arrives in France
- 1916 First Anzac Day
- 1916 HMS New Zealand fights at Jutland
- 1916 New Zealand Labour Party founded
- 1916 Vivian Walsh obtains New Zealand’s first pilot’s certificate
- 1916 New Zealand soldier executed
- 1916 First conscription ballot
- 1916 Future prime minister charged with sedition
- 1917 William Sanders awarded New Zealand's only naval VC
- 1917 New Zealand steamer captured by the Wolf
- 1917 Battle of Messines
- 1917 Bere Ferrers rail accident
- 1917 German 'Sea Devil' imprisoned in New Zealand
- 1917 New Zealand's ‘blackest day’ at Passchendaele
- 1917 Capture of Beersheba
- 1917 'Six o'clock swill' begins
- 1918 Wimmera sunk by German mine
- 1918 Niagara's arrival blamed for flu pandemic
- 1918 Massive prohibition petition presented to Parliament
- 1918 New Zealand Division liberates Le Quesnoy
- 1918 Armistice Day
- 1918 Influenza pandemic reaches peak mortality
- 1918 Anzac troops kill Arab civilians at Surafend
- 1919 New Zealand troops riot in England
- 1919 Maori (Pioneer) Battalion returns from war
- 1919 New Zealand votes for prohibition – until soldiers’ votes are counted
- 1919 New Zealand Prime Minister signs Treaty of Versailles
- 1919 Women can stand for Parliament