Events In History
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29 June 1990First female Anglican diocesan bishop appointedDr Penny Jamieson’s rise through church ranks was rapid. The first women were ordained to the Anglican priesthood in New Zealand in 1977. Jamieson was ordained and appointed to a Wellington parish in 1985. Read more...
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23 November 1986Pope John Paul II celebrates Mass in windy WellingtonThe first and so far only visit to New Zealand by a Bishop of Rome was significant for both Catholics and the wider community. Read more...
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29 March 1959Evangelist Billy Graham arrives for 11-day crusadeIn the first half of 1959 Billy Graham and his associate evangelists Leighton Ford, Grady Wilson and Joseph Blinco held crusades in New Zealand and Australia which attracted large audiences. Read more...
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20 April 1958Mormon temple opens in HamiltonThis was the first temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the southern hemisphere. Read more...
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2 December 1928First Bishop of Aotearoa consecratedFrederick Bennett, who had a Ngāti Whakaue mother and an Irish father, was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1897. He spent 13 years as superintendent of the Māori mission in Rotorua before moving to Hastings for mission work in Hawke’s Bay. Read more...
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21 July 1925Te Haahi Rātana established as churchFounded in 1918 by Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana (1873–1939), the religious movement that bore his name gave hope to many dispossessed Māori and later became a political force. Read more...
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17 May 1922Catholic Bishop found not guilty of seditionJames Liston, the assistant bishop of Auckland, was found not guilty of sedition following a high-profile court case. Read more...
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14 October 1892Suzanne Aubert appointed Mother SuperiorMother Aubert, known initially in her religious life as Sister Mary Joseph, was appointed to a newly established order at Hiruharama (Jerusalem) on the Whanganui River Read more...
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26 December 1879Sectarian violence in CanterburyIn Christchurch, 30 Catholic Irishmen attacked an Orange (Protestant) procession with pick-handles, while in Timaru, 150 men from Thomas O’Driscoll’s Hibernian Hotel surrounded Orangemen and prevented their procession taking place. Read more...
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6 April 1864Pai Mārire ambush in TaranakiA British patrol was ambushed by Pai Mārire fighters near Ōakura. The heads of the seven men killed were taken around the North Island by Pai Mārire disciples to encourage enlistment in the movement. Read more...
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8 September 1862First Albertland settlers arrive in AucklandThe Matilda Wattenbach brought 352 Nonconformist (non-Anglican Protestant) immigrants from England. Another 315 landed from the Hanover a week later, and six more immigrant ships had arrived by 1865. Read more...
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9 April 1850Sisters of Mercy arrive in New ZealandNine Sisters of Mercy arrived in Auckland on the Oceanie with Bishop Pompallier and a number of priests. Read more...
Articles
Pai Marire
Pai Marire (goodness and peace) was one of several new Māori faiths to emerge in the 19th century. Like many others, it was closely tied to issues of land and politics.
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Page 2 – Te Ua Haumēne
Pai Mārire disciples travelled around the North Island in the mid-1860s. Against a backdrop of war and land confiscations, the founding principle of Pai Marire was often
Premiers and Prime Ministers
From Henry Sewell in 1856 to Chris Hipkins in 2023, New Zealand has had 41 prime ministers and premiers. Read biographies of the men and women who have held the top job, discover more about the role's political origins, and explore fascinating prime ministerial facts and trivia.
- Page 1 - Premiers and Prime MinistersFrom Henry Sewell in 1856 to Chris Hipkins in 2023, New Zealand has had 41 prime ministers and premiers. Read biographies of the men and women who have held the top job, discover
Māori King movement - 1860-94
King Tāwhiao's reign was dominated by the Waikato War and the fallout from it.
- Page 4 - RaupatuUnder the terms of the New Zealand Settlements Act 1863 the government confiscated huge areas of Māori land in late
Anzac Day
First observed in 1916, Anzac Day - 25 April - commemorates those killed in war and honours returned servicemen and women. The ceremonies held at war memorials around the country, and in places overseas where New Zealanders gather, are rich in tradition and ritual.
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Page 6 – Another war and peace
Anzac Day came to have a wider focus and the commemorations became more popular in the years after the Second World War.
Armistice Day
After four terrible years, fighting in the First World War finally ended with the signing of an armistice between Germany and the Allies on 11 November 1918. New Zealanders celebrated enthusiastically, despite having recently celebrated the surrenders of the three other Central Powers and the premature news of an armistice with Germany.
- Page 7 - New Zealand in 1918Some facts and stats about New Zealand in the year the First World War
Biographies
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Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III, Erueti
Te Whiti was a Taranaki leader and prophet. A resistance movement based at Parihaka was led by him and Tohu Kākahi. Te Whiti was arrested following the infamous raid on Parihaka by Armed Constabulary in 1881.
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Rātana, Tahupōtiki Wiremu
Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana, of Ngāti Apa and Ngā Rauru, founded the Rātana Church, which remains a major religious and political force today.
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Hadfield, Octavius
Octavius Hadfield, member of the Church Missionary Society, was, in 1838, the first priest to be ordained in New Zealand. He became Bishop of Wellington in 1870.
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Te Ua Haumēne
In 1862 Te Ua Haumēne established a new religion, Hauhau based on the principle of pai marire – goodness and peace. Most settlers viewed Hauhau as a anti-European religion that became synonymous with ‘violence, fanaticism and barbarism’.
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Cargill, William Walter
Often seen out in his blue bonnet and tartan plaid in early colonial Dunedin, Captain William Cargill was the first leader of the Free Church of Scotland’s settlement in Dunedin.
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Aubert, Mary Joseph
Suzanne Aubert – later Mary Joseph Aubert – was a Catholic nun, nurse, teacher and pioneering social worker, who sometimes had to battle church and government authorities in order to help those in need.
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Williams, William
An early missionary and linguist, William Williams later came to criticise the government's dealings during the New Zealand Wars.
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Jamieson, Penelope Ann Bansall
English-born New Zealander Penny Jamieson was the first woman in the world to be ordained a diocesan bishop of the Anglican Church
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Main image: Wellington Jewish Community Centre memorial
Roll of Honour at the Wellington Jewish Community Centre.
