With the purchase of a vessel by Samuel Marsden for use by the Church Missionary Society at the beginning of the year the establishment of a mission in New Zealand is at last possible. After a preliminary scouting trip Marsden and the missionaries arrive at the end of the year and the first mission is begun at

Rangihoua Bay Rangihoua Bay is a bay at the southern end of the Purerua Peninsula, on the north-west shore of the Bay of Islands in Northland Region, Northland, New Zealand.Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p.367. It is 10 km north across the Bay ...

in the Bay of Islands. A small number of sealing vessels are operating/visiting Campbell,

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and Auckland Islands. At least one visits the Bay of Islands while other also make provisioning stops in Foveaux Strait. Whaling ships and ships collecting timber from Tahiti and other islands in the Pacific also visit the Bay of Islands.

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

* Head of State – King George III. With Prince George, Prince of Wales as prince regent. *

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–

Lachlan Macquarie Major-general (United Kingdom), Major General Lachlan Macquarie, Companion of the Order of the Bath, CB (; gd, Lachann MacGuaire; 31 January 1762 – 1 July 1824) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Scotland. Macquarie se ...

Dictionary of Australian Biography: Lachlan Macquarie
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Events

*February – Samuel Marsden buys the ''Active'', for £1400, after the Church Missionary Society refuses to provide funds for a ship.Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Samuel Marsden
/ref> *14 March – Thomas Kendall and William Hall leave Sydney on the ''Active'',

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Dillon, to explore the Bay of Islands for a suitable mission site. Also with them is Tui (Tupaea), younger brother of the Ngāpuhi chief Korokoro, who has been staying with Kendall in Sydney.NZETC: Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century, 1814
/ref> *10 June – The ''Active'' anchors off

. *11 June – 3 July – Kendall and Hall meet a number of Ngāpuhi chiefs including Kawiti, Ruatara, Tara (of

Kororareka Russell, known as Kororāreka in the early 19th century, was the first permanent European settlement and seaport in New Zealand. It is situated in the Bay of Islands, in the far north of the North Island. History and culture Māori settle ...

Pōmare I Pōmare I (c. 1753 – September 3, 1803) (fully in old orthography: Tu-nui-ea-i-te-atua-i-Tarahoi Vaira'atoa Taina Pōmare I; also known as Tu or Tinah or Outu, or more formally as Tu-nui-e-a'a-i-te-atua) was the unifier and first king of T ...

, Hauraki (aka Te Wera, of

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), and Hongi Hika. *25 July – The ''Active'' departs the Bay of Islands for Sydney. Along with Kendall and Hall are the Ngāpuhi chiefs Ruatara, Hongi Hika, Korokoro, Te Nganga, Punahou and Hongi's son Ripiro.New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Thomas Kendall Biography
/ref>Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Thomas Kendall
/ref> *22 August – The ''Active'' arrives in Sydney.Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Hongi Hika
/ref>Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Ruatara
/ref>New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Hongi Hika Biography
/ref>New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Ruatara Biography
/ref> *12 November – Kendall appointed

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for New Zealand by Governor

. *19 November – The ''Active'' attempts to leave Sydney but is forced to turn back by bad weather. Salmond, Anne. ''Between Worlds''. 1997. Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd. . *28 November – The ''Active'' finally departs Port Jackson on its way to establish the mission at Rangihoua.New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Samuel Marsden Biography
/ref> *15 December – The ''Active'' passes North Cape. *20 December – At Matauri Bay, Marsden persuades Ngāti Uru and Ngāpuhi to make peace. *22 December – The ''Active'' returns to the Bay of Islands. On board are Marsden; missionaries Thomas Kendall, William Hall and John King and their families; John Liddiard Nicholas (later author of ''Narrative of Voyage to New Zealand'') and Ruatara, Hongi Hika, Korokoro, Te Nganaga, Tui and Maui. The Active's captain is now Thomas Hansen Snr who is accompanied by his wife and son, Thomas Jnr. (see 1815, 1816 & 1817) *25 December – Marsden preaches the first sermon in New Zealand. ;Undated *Having received a hand flour mill from Marsden, Ruatara is at last able to grind the wheat that he has been growing and also that which he brought back from Sydney two years earlier.

1813 or 1814

*6 lascars from the ''Matilda'' desert the ship at 'Port Daniel' ( Otago Harbour). One later takes the moko and is still living with Māori on

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in 1844. *Robert Brown and 7 others of the ''Matilda'' sail from Stewart Island in a ship's boat to search the east coast of the

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as far as Moeraki and Oamaru looking for the missing lascars. They are all killed and, presumably, eaten.

Births

*29 May (in Ireland): John Robert Godley, leading colonist. * 6 October (in England):

Octavius Hadfield Octavius Hadfield (6 October 1814 – 11 December 1904) was Archdeacon of Kapiti, Bishop of Wellington from 1870 to 1893 and Primate of New Zealand from 1890 to 1893. He was a member of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) for thirty years. He w ...

, 2nd Bishop of New Zealand. ;Undated * (in England): Charles John Abraham, first Bishop of Wellington. * (in England): George Allen, politician. * Thomas Forsaith, politician. * (in England): Robert Hart, politician. * (in England):

Frederick Thatcher The Reverend Frederick Thatcher (1814 – 19 October 1890) was an English and New Zealand architect and clergyman. He was born at Hastings to a long-established Sussex family. He practised as an architect in London from 1835 and was one of the ...

, clergyman and architect.

Deaths

References

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