On 6 February 1840, what document was signed by Captain William Hobson (on behalf of Queen Victoria) and a number of Maori chiefs as the basis for New Zealand to become part of the British Empire?
Treaty of Waitangi After the signing at Waitangi by 150 chiefs, copies of the original document were taken round New Zealand to gather additional signatures.
In 1840 a two masted square rigged gunship, under Commander Owen Stanley, was sent to Akaroa on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. For what reason?
When Maori of Aotearoa (New Zealand) formally established a country-wide relationship with the powers of another country in 1840 in a document known as the Treaty of Waitangi, who was the relationship with?
In 1835 Maori from the mainland of New Zealand went to Rekohu, or the Chatham Islands, and slaughtered and enslaved the entire population of which people?
