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  New Zealand timeline
     
c. 800
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld   
Seafarers colonize New Zealand, the last great island region in the Pacific to be reached by human beings     
1642
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld    
The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman attempts to land in Golden Bay, New Zealand, resulting in a clash with the Maoris      
1769
 
   
Captain Cook reaches New Zealand and sets off to chart its entire coastline      
Hodges Dusky Bay, New Zealand (detail)
National Maritime Museum
1907
 
    
New Zealand becomes independent as a self-governing dominion       
1911
 
    
In a German Pension is New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield's first collection of stories       
1916
 
   
New Zealand surgeon Harold Gillies sets up a plastic surgery unit at Aldershot, a British military base