New Zealand Events by Ameto SCANLAN https://padlet.com/ametosca1/Onefour_Ladz This Padlet will be about New Zealand events en-us 2019-10-17 00:55:35 UTC 2019-10-17 20:28:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1f3-1f1ff.png Treaty of Waitangi ametosca1 https://padlet.com/ametosca1/Onefour_Ladz/wish/398790406 Within a few days of his arrival in the Bay of Islands, Hobson – helped by British residents including Busby and the missionaries Henry and Edward Williams drafted the Treaty of waitangi, which was presented to a gathering of Māori on the grounds of Busby’s home at Waitangi. The merits of the document were debated for a day and a night before more than 40  chiefs, led by Ngāpuhi’s Hōne Heke Pōkai, signed it on 6 February.]]> 2019-10-17 00:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ametosca1/Onefour_Ladz/wish/398790406 British first steps ametosca1 https://padlet.com/ametosca1/Onefour_Ladz/wish/398790407
In the early 1830s the Christian missionaries who had been working in New Zealand for nearly 20 years believed that God’s work was being hindered by a general sense of violence and chaos.]]> 2019-10-17 00:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ametosca1/Onefour_Ladz/wish/398790407 First contacts ametosca1 https://padlet.com/ametosca1/Onefour_Ladz/wish/398790408
By the time the first Europeans arrived, Māori had settled the land, every corner of which came within the interest and influence of a tribal (iwi) or sub-tribal hapū grouping. Abel Tasman was the first of the European explorers known to have reached New Zealand, in December 1642. His time here was brief. His only encounter with Māori ended badly, with four of his crew killed and Māori fired upon in retaliation. Tasman named the place we now call Golden Bay ‘Moordenaars’ (Murderers’) Bay. 
]]> 2019-10-17 00:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ametosca1/Onefour_Ladz/wish/398790408 A History of New Zealand 1769-1914 ametosca1 https://padlet.com/ametosca1/Onefour_Ladz/wish/398790409 In the period between the first European landings and the First World War, New Zealand was transformed from an exclusively Maori world into one in which Pākehā dominated numerically, politically, socially and economically. This broad survey of  New Zealand’s ‘long 19th century’ and begins with the arrival of James Cook in 1769 and concludes in 1914, when New Zealand answered the call to arms for ‘King and Country’.]]> 2019-10-17 00:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ametosca1/Onefour_Ladz/wish/398790409