The following lists events that happened during 1816 in New Zealand.

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

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

Governor of New South Wales The governor of New South Wales is the viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, King Charles III, in the state of New South Wales. In an analogous way to the governor-general of Australia at the national level, the governors of the ...

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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 ...

Events

*22 January – Large numbers of Māori from North Cape, Whangaroa and Thames visit the mission at Rangihoua.NZETC: Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century, 1816
/ref> *February – Thomas and Elizabeth Hansen arrive at Oihi, Rangihoua from Port Jackson on the ''Active''. They are the first non-missionary European family to settle in New Zealand. They eventually raised 11 children who all lived to at least their late 60s. *March – Tui and

Tītore Tītore (circa 1775-1837) (sometimes known as Tītore Tākiri) was a Rangatira (chief) of the Ngāpuhi iwi (tribe). He was a war leader of the Ngāpuhi who lead the war expedition against the Māori people, Māori tribes at East Cape in 1820 and ...

, who arrived the previous year, leave Port Jackson (Sydney) for England in HMS ''Kangaroo''. While there they may have helped Professor Samuel Lee start his Maori dictionary. *16 August – Thomas Kendall starts the first school in New Zealand, at Rangihoua. The opening roll is 33.Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Thomas Kendall
/ref>New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Thomas Kendall Biography
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Births

* 31 July (in Ireland): Trevor Chute, leader of British forces in the Second Taranaki War. ;Undated * William Daldy, politician * (in England):

Edward Dobson Edward Dobson (1816/17? – 19 September 1908) was Provincial Engineer for Canterbury Province, New Zealand from 1854 to 1868. Early life Edward Dobson was born in London, probably in 1816 or 1817. His parents were John Dobson, a merchant, and E ...

, Canterbury provincial engineer *

William Guyton William Guyton Justice of the peace, JP (1816–1884) was the second Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand in 1843. He obtained this position upon the death of George Hunter (mayor), George Hunter and held until the Borough was abolished by the Govern ...

, Mayor of Wellington *John Wheeler King, the first European male born in New Zealand to reach adulthood * Henry Tancred, politician

Deaths

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Charlotte Badger Charlotte Badger (1778 to after 1843) was a former convict who was on board the ''Venus'' during a mutiny in Tasmania in 1806. Taken to New Zealand, she was rescued by Captain Turnbull of the ''Indispensable (1791 ship), Indispensible'', and ev ...

; one of the first two female settlers in New Zealand.

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