Year
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Hint
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Answer
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233 AD
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This supervolcano erupts for the last time (so far)
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Taupō Volcano
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c. 1300
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This legendary Māori figure discovers Aotearoa
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Kupe
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c. 1400
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This large flightless goes extinct due to Māori overhunting
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Moa
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1642
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This explorer becomes the first European to sight New Zealand
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Abel Tasman
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1769
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This English circumnavigator lands in present-day Gisborne
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James Cook
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1840
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This treaty between Māori chiefs and colonialists is signed in the Bay of Islands
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Treaty of Waitangi
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1845
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This Māori leader cuts down the British flagstaff in Russell
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Hōne Heke
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1856
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This man becomes New Zealand's first Prime Minister
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Henry Sewell
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1861
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This is discovered in Central Otago
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Gold
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1865
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This city loses its capital city status
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Auckland
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1893
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New Zealand grants this people group the right to vote, the first country to do so
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women
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1915
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This campaign in the Ottoman Empire leaves 2,700 fighters dead
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Gallipoli campaign
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1915
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Name of the army corps these soldiers were part of
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ANZAC
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1916
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This party, the oldest in the country, is founded
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Labour
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1931
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This city is rebuilt in Art Déco style after a disastrous earthquake
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Napier
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1953
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Sir Edmund Hillary reaches this extreme point of the Earth
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Mount Everest
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1975
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This Māori leader walks the length of North Island to protest against land loss
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Whina Cooper
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1982
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The ratio of humans to this peaks at 1 to 22
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sheep
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1984
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New Zealand bans these ships from entering their ports
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nuclear-powered ships
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1987
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This team wins the inaugural Rugby World Cup
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the All Blacks
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2003
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This epic Peter L. Jackson trilogy is completed
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The Lord of the Rings
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2010
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The Pike River disaster leaves 29 dead. What is/was Pike River?
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a mine
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2011
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Christchurch is getting shocked by this
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earthquake
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2016
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In a national referendum, voters reject a change of this
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the national flag
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2019
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This community (whānau) becomes the target of a terrorist, leaving 51 dead
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Muslim community
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