The New Zealand Shipping Company's Otaki in Wellington Harbour in 1912. Five years later the Otaki was sunk following an epic battle with the German auxiliary cruiser Moewe.
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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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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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2 May 1868
First shipment of salmon and trout ova arrives
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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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17 August 1942
Attack on the Nino Bixio
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20 May 1865
Loss of the City of Dunedin with all hands
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9 May 1915
Kiwi Wimbledon champ killed in battle
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29 April 1881
131 perish in worst civilian shipwreck in NZ waters
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16 April 1912
News of Titanic sinking reaches NZ
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2 April 1915
Anzac soldiers riot in Cairo's Wazzir brothel district
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3 February 1868
Killer storm sweeps the country
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23 October 1915
Ten NZ nurses lost in Marquette sinking
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27 November 1940
Liner sunk by German raiders off East Cape
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15 August 1951
Troop ship Wahine wrecked en route to Korean War
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15 September 1976
Lyttelton–Wellington ferry service ends
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7 June 1917
The Battle of Messines
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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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11 August 1962
Picton ferry Aramoana enters service
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29 August 1914
NZ force captures German Samoa
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20 August 1940
Turakina sunk by German raider in Tasman
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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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Alfred de Bathe Brandon
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Malcolm McGregor
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William Burn
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Robert Logan
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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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William Massey
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Samuel Frickleton
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Charles Begg
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New Zealand Army Nursing Service
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First World War farewells
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The Post and Telegraph Department at war
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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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HMNZS Leander
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Royal NZ Navy's Bird-class ships
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Container shipping
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Featherston camp
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Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment timeline
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Pacific aftermath
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Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment timeline
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Sinai campaign
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Capture of German Samoa
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Pencarrow Lighthouse
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Armistice Day
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Oamaru Harbour
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Wahine disaster
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New Zealand disasters timeline
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Passchendaele: fighting for Belgium
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The Gallipoli campaign
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First World War - overview
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