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1816, New Zealand’s first mission school opens
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1881
Invasion of pacifist settlement at Parihaka
About 1600 troops invaded the western Taranaki settlement of Parihaka, which had come to symbolise peaceful resistance to the confiscation of Māori land.
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1913
Battle of Featherston Street
The ‘Battle of Featherston Street’, in downtown Wellington, saw some of the most violent street fighting of the 1913 Great Strike.
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This Week in History
8 August
1915
Wellington Battalion captures Chunuk Bair
9 August
1908
US 'Great White Fleet' arrives in Auckland
10 August
1840
British proclaim sovereignty as French head for Akaroa
11 August
1962
Picton ferry
Aramoana
enters service
12 August
1816
New Zealand’s first mission school opens
13 August
1914
First fatal NZ casualty of the First World War
14 August
1891
Women's suffrage petitions presented to Parliament