23 – 28 January - Jules Dumont d'Urville is the first European to make the passage through the notoriously dangerousFrench Pass thus determining the insularity of the island which now bears his name. On 23rd he discovers the passage; on 25th he sails it in a ship's boat; and on 28th he takes the corvetteAstrolabe through, considered a 'masterful feat of seamanship'.[1][2]
– Ngāpuhi chief Hongi Hika is shot during a minor engagement at Mangamuka beach in the Hokianga.[5] The wound is serious but Hongi survives for 14 months.
- The second sailing ship built in New Zealand, the 40-ton schooner Enterprise, is completed in the Horeke shipyard (also known as Deptford) in the Hokianga Harbour.[7]
September
– Captain William Wiseman in the Elizabeth on a flax trading voyage, names Port Cooper (now Lyttelton Harbour) after one of the owners of the Sydney trading firm, Cooper & Levy.[8]
^Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 427
^Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 10
^Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 342
^Previous whaling stations have been seasonal or temporary; other settlements with Europeans have been predominantly Māori although that at Bluffmay have had more than one European before 1827 (see 1924).
^No Mean City by Stuart Perry (1969, Wellington City Council)
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