The only recorded ship visit is a 3-day visit to Hauraki (the Waihou River between the Hauraki Plains and Coromandel Peninsula ) to collect timber. It is possible that sealers visit Dusky Sound and that whalers are off the north-east coast but no specific records of any such activity remains. ^[1]

Events [ edit ]

• March: HMS Reliance , Captain Henry Waterhouse , discovers and charts the Antipodes Islands . ^[1]
• 11 May: The Betsey , Captain John Myers, leaves Port Jackson for Peru . En route she visits Hauraki for three days to collect timber. On board are two p?keh? women, the first to visit the North Island . ^[1]

Undated

• Samuel Marsden becomes the principal, and at the time only remaining, chaplain for New South Wales . ^{[2] [3]}

Births [ edit ]

• 18 July (in England): William Williams , first Bishop of Waiapu. ^[4]
• 1 October (in England): James Reddy Clendon , settler and public official (died 1872) ^[5]

approximate

• c.1800 (in England): John Guard , whaler and trader, first permanent European resident in the South Island. ^[6]

Deaths [ edit ]

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See also [ edit ]

• List of years in New Zealand
• Timeline of New Zealand history
• History of New Zealand
• Military history of New Zealand
• Timeline of the New Zealand environment
• Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

References [ edit ]