RELATED TO 'BELGIUM WEEK' IN AUCKLAND
Events
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31 May 1916
HMS New Zealand fights in the Battle of Jutland
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11 April 1916
Arrival of the NZ Division in France
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21 August 1915
New Zealand mounteds attack Hill 60
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6 April 1919
NZ (Māori) Pioneer Battalion returns from war
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15 July 1915
Gallipoli wounded arrive home on the Willochra
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16 October 1914
Main Body of NZEF sails to war
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5 August 1914
New Zealand enters the First World War
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28 June 1914
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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8 February 1915
Ambush in Turkey leads to death of New Zealand seaman
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24 September 1917
Bere Ferrers rail accident
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25 August 1916
First New Zealand soldier executed
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9 May 1915
Kiwi Wimbledon champ killed in battle
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2 April 1915
Anzac soldiers riot in Cairo's Wazzir brothel district
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23 October 1915
Ten NZ nurses lost in Marquette sinking
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23 February 1940
100,000 welcome home HMS Achilles crew
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3 January 1930
First NZ-made 'talkie' screened
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7 June 1917
The Battle of Messines
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12 October 1917
NZ's ‘blackest day’ at Passchendaele
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30 October 1918
Massive prohibition petition presented to Parliament
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22 December 1916
Future PM Fraser charged with sedition
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26 June 1918
Wimmera sunk by German mine
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8 August 1915
Wellington Battalion captures Chunuk Bair
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29 August 1914
NZ force captures German Samoa
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7 October 1917
German 'Sea Devil' imprisoned in NZ
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15 December 1915
The evacuation of Gallipoli begins
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2 June 1917
NZ steamer captured by the Wolf
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15 January 1970
Anti-Vietnam War protesters greet US Vice President
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29 January 1842
Auckland's first Anniversary Day Regatta
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14 December 1843
First Auckland A and P Show
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24 May 1854
Parliament's first sitting in Auckland
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30 May 1959
Auckland harbour bridge opened
Biographies
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Mary Mulcahy
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Robert Triggs
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Alfred William Robin
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Alfred de Bathe Brandon
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Euan Dickson
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Malcolm McGregor
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William Rhodes-Moorhouse
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Keith Caldwell
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William Burn
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Robert Logan
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John Logan Campbell
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Ettie Rout
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Archibald Baxter
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Alexander Godley
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James Allen
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Ormond Burton
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Andrew Hamilton Russell
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George Butler
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Nugent Welch
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Tibor Donner
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William Massey
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Samuel Frickleton
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Charles Begg
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Bernard Freyberg
Articles
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New Zealanders who resisted the First World War
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Rolls of honour and obituaries
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Honouring public servants
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Repatriation of returned servicemen
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Policing the war effort
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Feeding Britain
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Maintaining public services during the war
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Getting the men to war
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The public service in 1914
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New Zealand Army Nursing Service
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First World War homecomings
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NZ Railways at war
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The Public Service at war - overview
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First World War by the numbers
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First World War laws and regulations
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First World War farewells
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The Post and Telegraph Department at war
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Hospital ships
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The War in the air
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NZ's First World War horses
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The Salonika campaign
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Schools and the First World War
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Anzac Day in the Pacific
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First World War art
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The Royal New Zealand Navy
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Featherston camp
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Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment timeline
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Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment timeline
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Pacific aftermath
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Merchant marine
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Researching New Zealand soldiers
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Māori units of the NZEF
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Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment timeline
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British Empire
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Allies
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Central Powers
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Palestine campaign
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Sinai campaign
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The Imperial Camel Corps
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Capture of German Samoa
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Armistice Day
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Military mascots
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The Arras tunnels
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Passchendaele: fighting for Belgium
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The Beatles in New Zealand
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Supporting the war effort
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The Gallipoli campaign
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Conscientious objection and dissent
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Māori and the First World War
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Battle of the Somme
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First World War - overview
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First World War memorials
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New Zealand and Le Quesnoy
Community contributions