1814 in New Zealand

With the purchase of a vessel by Reverend 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 in the Bay of Islands.

A small number of sealing vessels are operating/visiting Campbell, Macquarie 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 Vice Regal

*Head of State – King George III. With Prince George, Prince of Wales as Prince Regent.
*Governor of New South Wales – Lachlan Macquarie

Events

*February – Reverend Samuel Marsden buys the "Active", for £1400, after the Church Missionary Society refuses to provide funds for a ship. [http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=1M16 Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Samuel Marsden] ]
*14 March – Thomas Kendall and William Hall leave Sydney on the "Active", captain Dillon, to explore the Bay of Islands for a suitable mission site. Also with them is Tui (Tupaea), younger brother of the Ngā Puhi chief Korokoro, who has been staying with Kendall in Sydney. [http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-SmiMaor-t1-body-d10.html NZETC: Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century, 1814] ]
*10 June – The "Active" anchors off Rangihoua.
*11 June – 3 July – Kendall and Hall meet a number of Ngā Puhi chiefs including Kawiti, Ruatara, Tara (of Kororareka), Pomare, Hauraki (aka Te Wera, of Kerikeri), and Hongi Hika.
*25 July – The "Active" departs the Bay of Islands for Sydney. Along with Kendall and Hall are the Ngā Puhi chiefs Ruatara, Hongi Hika, Korokoro, Te Nganga, Punahou and Hongi’s son Ripiro. [http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/K/KendallThomas/KendallThomas/en New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Thomas Kendall Biography] ] [http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=1K9 Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Thomas Kendall] ]
*22 August – The "Active" arrives in Sydney. [http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=1H32 Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Hongi Hika] ] [http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=1R19 Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Ruatara] ] [http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/H/HongiHika/HongiHika/en New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Hongi Hika Biography] ] [http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/R/Ruatara/Ruatara/en New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Ruatara Biography] ]
*12 November – Thomas Kendall appointed Justice of the Peace for New Zealand by Governor Macquarie.
*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. ISBN 0 670 87787 5.]
*28 November – The "Active" finally departs Port Jackson on it’s way to establish the mission at Rangihoua. [http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/M/MarsdenSamuel/MarsdenSamuel/en New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Samuel Marsden Biography] ]
*15 December – The "Active" passes North Cape.
*20 December – At Matauri Bay, Marsden persuades Ngāti Uru and Ngā Puhi to make peace.
*22 December – The "Active" returns to the Bay of Islands. On board are Reverend Samuel Marsden; missionaries Thomas Kendall, William Hall and John King and their families; John Liddiard Nicholas (later author of "Narrative of Voyage to New Zealand") [http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~teecee/earlyeuropeans.htm Early Europeans in 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)
*23 December – Reverend Marsden preaches the first sermon in New Zealand.

Undated

*Having received a hand flour mill from Samuel 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 [Anne Salmond's "Between Worlds" describes in the narrative (p.312) the following two incidents as having taken place in 1814 (as do reports in the histories of Moeraki and Oamaru) but in the appendix (p.524) as having occurred after the "Matilda" left Port Jackson on 4 August 1813 and implying they happened later that year, as is the case in [http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-McNMuri-t1-body-d1-d16-d3.html NZETC: The Matilda at Otago, 1813] .]

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

Births

Deaths

References

ee also

*List of years in New Zealand
*Timeline of New Zealand history
*History of New Zealand
*Military history of New Zealand
*Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand
*Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

"For world events and topics in 1814 not specifically related to New Zealand see": 1814