New Zealand Education

CIA-The World Fact Book-New Zealand (n.d.). Retrieved March 1, 2010, from https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/nz.html

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c.1000 AD - Maori arrive from other parts of Polynesia.
1642 - Dutch explorer Abel Tasman visits New Zealand.
1769 - British captain James Cook explores coastline, also in 1773 and 1777.
1815 - First British missionaries arrive.
1840 - Treaty of Waitangi between British and several Maori tribes pledges protection of Maori land and establishes British rule.
1845-72 - The New Zealand Wars (Land Wars). Maori put up resistance to British colonial rule.
1893 - New Zealand becomes world's first country to give women the right to vote.
1898 - Government introduces old-age pensions.
1907 - New Zealand becomes dominion within British Empire.

1947 - New Zealand gains full independence from Britain.
Plans to nationalise coastline sparked Maori protests
1984 - Labour government elected, Prime Minister David Lange begins radical economic reforms.
1993 - Referendum vote introduces proportional representation.
1996 - Under new electoral system, number of Maori MPs rises from six to 15.
1997 - Jenny Shipley becomes New Zealand's first woman prime minister.
1998 - Waitangi Tribunal orders government to return confiscated land in Turangi Township to its Maori owners.

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