New Zealand grants women the vote
1893 · Event
First self-governing country to give women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
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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)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- Austronesian expansion begins (3000 BCE)
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