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1917, New Zealand steamer captured by the
Wolf
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1910
Champion rower Dick Arnst wins world title race on Zambezi River
1910
First female ascent of Aoraki/Mt Cook
1910
Hocken Library opens at Otago Museum
1911
Bookies take last bets on New Zealand racecourses
1911
New Zealand’s first controlled powered flight
1911
New Zealand Coat of Arms warranted
1911
Pawelka's last prison break
1912
TSS
Earnslaw
launched on Lake Wakatipu
1912
News of
Titanic
sinking reaches New Zealand
1912
Public Service Act passed into law
1912
Striker fatally wounded at Waihī
1913
Battle of Featherston Street
1913
Waterfront strike ends
1913
Violence flares on Wellington wharves
1913
HMS
New Zealand
begins tour of nation’s ports
1913
Smallpox epidemic kills 55
1914
Scotland crosses Southland in pioneering flight
1914
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
1914
New Zealand enters the First World War
1914
First fatal NZ casualty of the First World War
1914
New Zealand force captures German Samoa
1914
Eruption on Whakaari (White Island) kills 10 people
1914
Forty-three miners killed in explosion at Huntly
1914
Main Body of NZEF sails to war
1915
New Zealand nurses lost in
Marquette
sinking
1915
Evacuation of Gallipoli begins
1915
New Zealanders attack Hill 60
1915
Wellington Battalion captures Chunuk Bair
1915
First Gallipoli wounded arrive home
1915
Gallipoli landings
1915
Anzac soldiers riot in Cairo's Wazzir brothel district
1915
Māori soldiers sail to war
1915
Turkish ambush kills New Zealand seaman
1915
Kiwi Wimbledon winner killed in battle
1916
HMS
New Zealand
fights at Jutland
1916
Future prime minister charged with sedition
1916
First conscription ballot
1916
New Zealand soldier executed
1916
Vivian Walsh obtains New Zealand’s first pilot’s certificate
1916
New Zealand Labour Party founded
1916
First Anzac Day
1916
New Zealand Division arrives in France
1916
Arrest of Rua Kēnana
1916
New Zealand Division formed
1917
Battle of Messines
1917
'Six o'clock swill' begins
1917
Capture of Beersheba
1917
New Zealand's ‘blackest day’ at Passchendaele
1917
German 'Sea Devil' imprisoned in New Zealand
1917
Bere Ferrers rail accident
1917
New Zealand steamer captured by the
Wolf
1917
William Sanders awarded New Zealand's only naval VC
1918
Wimmera
sunk by German mine
1918
Niagara
's arrival blamed for flu pandemic
1918
Massive prohibition petition presented to Parliament
1918
New Zealand Division liberates Le Quesnoy
1918
Armistice Day
1918
Influenza pandemic reaches peak mortality
1918
Anzac troops kill Arab civilians at Surafend
1919
New Zealand troops riot in England
1919
Maori (Pioneer) Battalion returns from war
1919
New Zealand votes for prohibition – until soldiers’ votes are counted
1919
New Zealand Prime Minister signs Treaty of Versailles
1919
Women can stand for Parliament
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