Treaty of Waitangi signed
1840 · Event
Maori chiefs and British Crown sign New Zealand's founding document; its meaning still contested.
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- Settlement of Australia (65000 BCE)
- First British settlement in Australia (1788)
- Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Gallipoli campaign (1915)
- New Zealand grants women the vote (1893)
- Austronesian expansion begins (3000 BCE)
Around 1840
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)