The following lists events that happened during 1829 in New Zealand.
Incumbents
Regal and viceregal Head of State – King George IV Governor of New South Wales – General Ralph Darling
Events 29 November – Alfred Nesbitt Brown arrives in Paihia. He is the third ordained minister in New Zealand.New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Brown Biography
Undated James Farrow, the first trader known to have frequented the Tauranga area, arrives for the first time. (see also 1838) A whaling station is established at Preservation Inlet on the south-west corner of the South Island by Captain William Anglem.Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 356It has also been suggested that the station was established in 1828 by Peter Williams. See New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Shore-based whaling
Births 14 February (in England): Richard Burgess, murderer. 31 March (in England): Maria Rye, social reformer.Dictionary of Canadian Biography 30 April (in Germany): Ferdinand von Hochstetter, geologist. 22 July: William Leonard Williams, Māori language scholar and Bishop of Waiapu. 26 November (in England): Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore, Governor of New Zealand. Undated Frederick Joseph Moss, politician. (in England): Henry Richmond, Superintendent of Taranaki.Born to New Zealand: A Biography of Jane Maria Atkinson by Frances Porter (1989, Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press, Wellington)
See also 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
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