General New Zealand History and Timeline Links

Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand - Photographs, sounds, moving images, documents, graphs and maps are combined with text in Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand . The first group of entries, about the people of New Zealand , and an overview, New Zealand In Brief , are just the beginning of what will become a comprehensive guide to the natural environment, history, culture, economics, institutions, peoples and social development of this country published over the next. The site also features a digital version of the complete 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand by A.H. McLintock.
New Zealand Official Yearbook - 2000 edition on line- this contains a timeline in its 'People' section - scroll to bottom of page. Provided through Statistics New Zealand. Note that this link goes to the Statistics Dept home page from where you can find the Yearbook using their search engine.
A short history of New Zealand taken from the Lonely Planet book - posted by Paul and Tom Pyzowski
Historical timeline - provided by the NZ High Commission in Canada

'Capsule History' - provided by Philip Greenspun - history is a bit dodgy but some nice pics!

A Touch of New Zealand - site hosted by atonz.com. Includes a complete list of New Zealand Premiers and Prime Ministers and a history of New Zealand Defence Forces 1860-1863, including NZ Cross winners, statistics on those killed and wounded and a list of further sources.

New Zealand history site including essays on the Moriori, early explorers, the NZ wars, 19th century colonisation and M.J. Savage. Created by Robin Whitmore, an ex-pat Kiwi living in France.

Pioneers in NZ and the South Pacific - a rapidly expanding collection of articles and stories developed by Anthony Flude. Contents include: the Circular Saw Line, Gold Strike-Prospecting in NZ in 1860's, Wanganui Riverboats, The Boyd Massacre, Henderson's Mill, Days of the Sailing Scow, Captain Peter Theet, George Ellis, Bully Hayes,The Pacific Kidnappers (blackbirders), Trade among the Pacific islands, Wrecked on Christmas island and J.C. Godeffroy of Samoa.

DNZB online - the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography went online on Saturday, 1 December 2001 and was officially launched by the Prime Minister on 19 February 2002. The site contains all 3049 biographies from the five-volume DNZB series (and its parallel Maori-language volumes), fully searchable in a wide variety of ways; over 1800 images to date; and a substantial new feature - Our Land, Our People - presenting 'snapshots' of historical events and trends in graphics and text, including a good number of animated and interactive features adapted from the New Zealand Historical Atlas. The URL is: http://www.dnzb.govt.nz .

NZ Historic Places Trust Register - this exciting new site holds Register entries for about 1,000 historic structures, historic areas, and wahi tapu - covering all the Trust's Category I historic places and some Category II. Some records associated with these register entries are displayed: there are photos and reports for many places, and in some instances there are very detailed reports. The database is searchable in a variety of ways including by region, by building type, by architect and by date of construction. The Trust will be adding new register entries, records and photographs every couple of months.

Books New Zealand - an internet bookshop which includes a wide selection of New Zealand history books arranged by author.

NZine - a website that allows the public to contribute articles or comment on those of others - includes a New Zealand History section

Naval History timeline - provided by the Royal New Zealand Navy.

New Zealand in History - website created by Robbie Whitmore, an expat living in France. Contains lots of useful information including a timeline and NZ famous firsts page.

New Zealand E-Text Centre - features an ever-growing collection of digitised books including:

Official War History Collection
Print History of Wellington
Cornerstones of New Zealand Literature
Poetry of William Golder