Events In History
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24 March 1770Ngāti Kahu kidnap victim dies at sea on French shipThe Ngāti Kahu chief Ranginui died at sea after being taken from Doubtless Bay by the French explorer de Surville Read more...
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12 December 1769De Surville first sights NZ near HokiangaAs James Cook rounded the northern tip of the North Island from east to west, the French explorer Jean François Marie de Surville was in the same waters, sailing in the opposite direction. A storm prevented any chance of an historic meeting. Read more...
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Main image: Samuel Marsden's first service
Russell Clark's reconstruction of Samuel Marsden's first service in New Zealand at Oihi Bay, Rangihoua, Bay of Islands, on Christmas Day, 1814