1813 in New Zealand

By the end of the year reports from London regarding Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, and from the Bay of Islands regarding the hospitality of the Māori, encourage Samuel Marsden into thinking the time for the establishment of a Christian mission to New Zealand is now imminent.Salmond, Anne. Between Worlds. 1997. Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd. ISBN 0 670 87787 5.]

Whaling ships are a regular occurrence off the coasts of New Zealand, usually calling into the Bay of Islands. A number have Māori among their crew. Sealing ships operate in both Bass Strait and Macquarie Island, occasionally calling into New Zealand. A few have Māori among their crew.

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

*19 April– The "Perseverance", leaves Sydney looking for flax trading possibilities in the south of the South Island. During the trip she is the first ship known to have entered Bluff Harbour. [http://www.bluff.co.nz/history2.html Bluff History] ]
*2 May – The "Perseverance" collects the sealing gang left on Solander Island in western Foveaux Strait in 1809 by the "Fox".
*May – After waiting for nearly 5 years Thomas Kendall and his family finally depart England for New Zealand (via New South Wales). [http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=1K9 Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Thomas Kendall] ]
*20 July – The "Perseverance" returns to Sydney.
*October – Reverend Marsden’s plans for a mission in New Zealand come a step closer with the arrival of Thomas Kendall at Port Jackson. [http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/M/MarsdenSamuel/MarsdenSamuel/en New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Samuel Marsden Biography] ] [http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/K/KendallThomas/KendallThomas/en New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Thomas Kendall Biography] ]
*27 November – The "Governor Bligh" Captain John Grono, collects the sealing gang left marooned on the Open Bay islands off the south West Coast since 1810 by the loss of their ship the "Active" (first vessel of that name).
*16 December – The "Governor Bligh" returns to Port Jackson.

Undated

*Early in the year Ruatara is finally returned home. With the death during his absence of Te Pahi and his elder brother, Ruatara is made paramount chief of Ngā Puhi. He has seed wheat given to him by Samuel Marsden and intends to grow it to sell to Europeans. He does not however have anything to grind the wheat with. (see 1814)

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 1813 not specifically related to New Zealand see": 1813