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Interesting Facts about New Zealand[edit | edit source]
- Country : NEW ZEALAND ๐ณ๐ฟ
- Capital: Wellington
- Continent: Oceania
- Currency: New Zealand Dollar
- Official Language: English, Maori, and Sign Language
1. New Zealand became the first country to give women the right to vote in 1893.
2. During New Zealandโs spring and summer months, it gets to be the first country to see the sunrise.
3. New Zealand is the second-largest producer of wool in the world.
4. Baldwin Street- is the steepest residential street in the world.
5. Blue Lake in Nelson Lakes National Park has the cleanest water in the world.
6. New Zealand is home to the smallest dolphin species on earth.
7. New Zealanders are also being called "Kiwis" The name derives from the kiwi, a flightless bird, which is a national symbol of New Zealand.
8. The Nevis Bungy is the third highest bungy jump in the world.
9. About one-third of the country is protected national parks.
10. There are 50 volcanic cones in and around Auckland. The most prominent one is Mount Rangitoto.
11. The biggest one-day yachting event in the world takes place in New Zealand.
12. Movie : Lord of the Rings was shooted in New Zealand (Matamata in Waikato district).
13. New Zealand is the least corrupt nation in the world.
14. The kea, a bird originally from New Zealand, is known for pulling windshield wipers from cars and eating rubber strips from windows.
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New Zealand Timeline[edit | edit source]
Date | Event |
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650 | First traces of Polynesian occupation. |
925 | Official discovery of New Zealand by Kupe, Polynesian navigator. |
1300 | Colonization of the islands by the Polynesians. |
The arrival of Europeans[edit | edit source] | |
1642 | Discovery of New Zealand by the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman. |
1769 | Arrival of the exploration mission led by James Cook aboard the Endeavor. |
1773 | James Cook's second voyage. |
1790 | Beginning of the whale and fur seal trade and logging. |
1814 | Arrival of the first missionaries, including Samuel Marsden. The first Anglican mission is established. Introduction of the first sheep, cattle, horses and poultry. |
1818 | The Musket Wars, intertribal struggles, partly due to the acquisition of muskets, shake the country. |
1833 | James Busby arrives in the Bay of Islands. |
1835 | James Busby learns that the French wish to declare the sovereignty of the country. He began to draft New Zealand's Declaration of Independence and had it ratified by 35 Maori chiefs. The latter thus submit to Queen Victoria, who in return guarantees them |
1839 | Creation of the New Zealand Company under the inspiration of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. |
A territory in conflict[edit | edit source] | |
1840 | French settlers land in Akaroa. Treaty of Waitangi, annexation of New Zealand to the British crown. |
1841 | Auckland becomes the capital. Around 1845, the Maoris were the first exporters of goods (fish, kumara) from Moeraki to Australia on charter boats. |
1860 | Maori wars until 1870. |
1861 | Beginning of the gold rush. |
1865 | Wellington, more central, replaces Auckland as the capital. |
1870 | First rugby match. |
Economic development[edit | edit source] | |
1879 | Voting rights granted to the natives. |
1887 | Creation of the first national park, Tongariro. Reefton is the first town to have electricity. |
1893 | Voting rights granted to women. |
1894 | First ascent of Mount Cook by Clark, Fyfe and Graham. Mahuta Tawhiao Potatau Te Wherowhero (Potatau II) becomes king of the Maori. |
1907 | New Zealand becomes a dominion. |
1908 | The native of the country, Ernest Rutherford, considered the father of nuclear physics, wins the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work. |
Emancipation and expansion[edit | edit source] | |
1914-1918 | A contingent leaves for Europe; very few soldiers come back. |
1931 | Hawke's Bay earthquake. |
1939-1945 | New Zealand is involved in the South Pacific War. |
1945 | New Zealand ratifies the United Nations Charter. |
1947 | Independence of New Zealand. |
1953 | Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first to successfully climb Mount Everest. |
1958 | Sir Edmund Hillary reaches the South Pole by land. |
1961 | Abolition of the death penalty. |
1962 | Maurice Wilkins obtains the Nobel Prize for medicine by discovering DNA. |
1965 | Sending troops to Vietnam. |
1973 | New Zealand joins the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. |
1979 | An Air New Zealand plane crashes into the Mount Erebus in Antarctica with 257 passengers on board. |
1985 | Sabotage of Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior by the French secret services. |
1987 | Maori is declared an official language by law. |
1993 | The proportional elections are introduced. |
1995 | Moratorium on French nuclear tests at Mururoa. The New Zealand boycott of French products ends. |
1997 | Jenny Shipley is the first female Prime Minister. |
1999 | Following the legislative elections, Helen Clark becomes Prime Minister. |
2000 | New Zealand is the first country in the world to dive into the second millennium. |
2001 | Assassination of Peter Blake by pirates while researching in the Amazon. The first film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy (Peter Jackson) is released. |
2002 | Fourteenth national park, Rakiura, established on Stewart Island. Helen Clark wins the election against opposition leader Bill English (National Party) and doubles her term as Prime Minister. |
2005 | All couples, heterosexual and homosexual, have the right to register under the status of civil union. This status guarantees them the same rights as married couples. |
2007 | The national rugby team, the All Blacks, lost in the quarter-finals against the French at the World Cup in Cardiff. |
2008 | An agreement was signed in the Wellington Parliament returning to seven Maori tribes 176,000 hectares of forest in the center of the North Island. |
2011 | On February 22, an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale kills more than 180 and completely destroys downtown Christchurch. |
2011 | New Zealand organizes the 7th Rugby World Cup. Once again France is opposed to New Zealand in the final. It is the latter who wins by a score of 8-7. |
2012-2013 | Peter Jackson presents his second trilogy, The Hobbit, filmed in New Zealand. |
2015-2016 | Debate then referendum on the adoption of a new flag, adoption rejected by 56.6%. |
2016 | A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand on Sunday, November 13, triggering a tsunami and killing several people. The epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km east of Christchurch on the South Island. The whole region is affected, severely destroying ro |
2018 | On August 6, New Zealand passed a law prohibiting foreigners from accessing real estate. The legislation has some exceptions: only foreigners with resident status, Australians and Singaporeans, will be able to continue to invest. |