1836 in New Zealand

← 1835 1834 1833 1836 in New Zealand → 1837 1838 1839
Decades:	1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	Other events of 1836 Timeline of New Zealand history

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

• Head of State – King William IV
• Governor of New South Wales – Major-General Sir Richard Bourke

Government and law

• British Resident in New Zealand – James Busby
• Additional British Resident in New Zealand – Thomas McDonnell until his resignation in July.^[1]

Events

• July
  • – Additional British Resident in New Zealand, Thomas McDonnell resigns.^[1]
• 26 December – John Hughes, W.I. Haberfield and others from the Weller brothers whaling station at Otakou arrive in the Magnet and set up a whaling station on the north side of Moeraki Point.^[2]

Undated

• Captain John Howell is sent by whaler and merchant Johnny Jones to establish a whaling station at Riverton to replace that recently abandoned at Preservation Inlet.^[3][4] (see also 1829 and 1835)
• The Stone Store at Kerikeri, the oldest stone building in New Zealand, is completed mid-year.
• Late in the year Alfred Nesbitt Brown closes the mission at Matamata.^[5] (see also 1835 & 1838)

Births

• 14 January (in England): Thomas Hocken, collector and bibliographer.

Unknown date

(in Ireland) Richard Reeves, politician.

See also

• List of years in New Zealand
• Timeline of New Zealand history
• History of New Zealand
• Military history of New Zealand
• Timeline of the New Zealand environment
• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

References

1. New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966:McDonnell Snr. Biography
2. Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 265.
3. Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 377.
4. 1937 also suggested
5. New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Brown Biography

External links

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