What in the world was happening?A TIMELINE FROM 1300…

W E BUUTVELD ~ 2015

Early arrival in Aotearoa

1300 1320 1340 1360 1380Trees, birds, reptiles and insects have NZ all to themselves

Earliest Māori arrive in Aotearoa

1295 Marco Polo returns from China a year after Kublai Khan’s death

1314 Battle of Bannockburn –Scotland v England

1337 Hundred Years War – England v France 1347-53 The Black

Death1368 Ming Dynasty -China

1381 Peasants Revolt – Wat Tyler London

Dispersal

1400 1420 1440 1460 1480Ngāti Tumatakokiri tupunaarrive with Kurahaupō waka inthe Bay of Plenty. Ngāti Tumatakokiri spread to Taupo then Whanganui then Marlborough Sounds.

Through their Kurahaupō waka whakapapa, Ngāti Tumatakokiri were related to other Te Tau Ihu tribes ie NgātiKuia, Ngati Apa, Rangitāne and Nga Tara who controlled the strategic areas of Te Whanganui-a-Tara and Kapiti.

1407 New hospital for the insane in London -Bethlehem

1415 Battle of Agincourt –England defeats France

1415 John the Navigator –Portuguese conquest of parts of Africa begins

1431 Joan of Arc burned alive

1450 Guttenberg invents printing press

1453 The Hundred Years War finishes –England defeated at Bordeaux

1461 War of Roses over -House of York wins over Lancaster

1480 da Vinci invents the parachute

1492 Columbus sets sail for China

1498 da Gama reaches India

In the 15th Century the climate cooled and there was a shortage of food, no more snapper off the South Islandand only small snapper in the north. Kumara and bracken became the main foods and people burnt off bush sobracken would grow. Tribal land and seas were the supermarket of the time, without them one’s people died orfought neighbours for survival. Many tribes displaced and pushed south.

1500 1520 1540 1560 1580

1562 English join slave trade

Consolidation

Argillite traded across these areas including Wakatu

1512 Michelangelo completes the Sistine Chapel

1517 Luther lists his 95 theses

1521 Cortés defeats Mexica

(Aztecs)

1535 Henry VIII becomes head

of English Church

1543 Copernicus is

dead – his work says Earth goes around Sun

1549 Francis Xavier arrives

in Japan

1558 Elizabeth I becomes

Queen

1559 Ice cream invented in Italy

Only ½ of babies survive first year

– poor live to about 40,

wealthy 50+Concrete is re-invented, the

minute hand appears on a clock and a spectacle maker makes a

microscope 1588 Raleigh

defeats Spanish Armada

1507 America first appears on world map –AmerigoVespucci

Ngāti Tumatakokiri establish themselves from Rangitoto to Mohua

1660 English monarchy restored under Charles II following Cromwell’s death in 1658

1642 Van Dieman sends Tasman south east

1632 Galileo publishes his ideas about the universe

1616 Hartog“discovers” WA1619 Dutch conquer Jayakartanow Batavia

1605 Guy Fawkes hanged

First contact

1600 1620 1640 1660 168013 Dec 1642Abel Tasmanfirst European tosight Aotearoa

1601 Dutch defeat Portuguese in naval battle at Batavia

1602 Dutch govtgrants VoC(Dutch East India Co) a monopoly to pursue trade in Asia

1606 Dutch “discover” AusCape York and by 1609 dominate Indian Ocean

1628 Harvey discovers blood circulation

1665 Black death kills 70 000 in a week in London

1666 Great fire of London

1686 Newton presents ideas to Royal Society

1690 British East India Co establishes trading post in Calcutta

1675 van Leeuwenhoek discovers microorganisms

Ngāti Tumatakokiri well established with a largepopulation across Mohua – Taupo Islands tapu asmajor urupa

1789 French Revolution gets underway eventually triggering republics and democracies

1760 British defeat French in North America

Second wave

1700 1720 1740 1760 1780

1701 CaptWilliam Kidd is hanged

1707 Cape Town well established by Dutch – slaves from Indonesia.Scotland & England become UK.More Europeans can read

1725 Golden Age of pirates comes to an end

1718 Edward Teach Blackbeardis hunted down and killed

1734 Daniel Boone born in Pennsylvania

1746 Jacobite rev defeated at Culloden

1750 60 000 slaves taken from Africa every year.Baroque composer J S Bach dies

1751 Indonesians rebel against Dutch

1776 Continental Congress declares independence on 4 Jul

1765 James Watt creates condenser for steam engines

1769 Capt Cook arrivesin NZ unaware deSurville is anchoredthere – claims forEngland and mapsentire coastlineCook returns in 1772 (QC Sound) and 1776

1788 Britain loses its 13 colonies in the Americas so begins sending convicts to Sydney

1701 Ngāi Tahu migrate to the South Is -Māori throughout Aotearoa continue tocompete fiercely for scarce food resourcesie fishing areas and good gardens.Societies were unsettled and warlike.Papa kāinga (villages) increasingly fortifiedwith some becoming major pa. Life waspretty tough and few could expect to livemuch beyond their forties.All traditions and ties connected through,legend, whakapapa, trade, moko, stories,carving, dance and waiata.

Sealers and whalers stayed ashort time, not wanting tolive here but wanting to takenatural resources and sell toChina, Europe and America

1888 Reefton first town in southern hemisphere with electricity

1839Wakefield’sNZ Co shipsarrive

1885 Modern bike on show

1870 Diamonds discovered in Africa

1869 Suez Canal opens1851 Gold

discovered in Australia

1831 Darwin sails on the Beagle

Trade, tension, treaty and turbulence

1800 1820 1840 1860 1880

1805 Napoleon defeated at Battle of Trafalgar

1812 Russia defeats Napoleon who loses 600 000 troops

1827 10 000 mourners attend Beethoven’s funeral

1849 Safety pin invented

1861 Lincoln becomes president.Whale oil displaced by mineral oil

1889 2nd Boer War starts

1815 Tamobra (Ind) erupts – crops fail –biggest famine northern hemisphere

1830 the lawnmower and sewing machine are invented

1839 Goodyear invents vulcanisation

1841 Britainmakes NZ a colony

1859Marlborough Province est

1859 French take over Saigon.Rabbits brought to Australia

1861 Havelock School est

1864 Gatling gun used in American Civil War

1844 – 72 Various Māori armed resistance inNorth Island – Waikato, Taranaki, King Country

1886 Hertz sends a radio signal

1899 Boxer revolution in China

1843 Wairau Affray at Tua Marina – only skirmish in SI22 Pākehā4 Māori killed

1834 First flag 1840

Te Tiritio Waitangi

1822 D’Urville’sfirst voyage to South Pacific –extensive mapping espTasman BayCircumnavigates the globeLeaves major legacy

1831 Whaling stations estTory Channel & Preservation Inlet

1806Pākehāwomenarrive1807… Tribes trade for muskets to gain ascendancy – many battles Ngāti Toa move southHongi Hika visits King

1864 Gold discovered Wakamarina

1877 Education Act –free, secular, compulsory

1882 First shipment frozen meet leaves OtagoRutherfords attend Havelock School

1893 Seddon becomes PremierWomen first in world allowed to vote

1814ChurchMissions

Settlers coming - timber, flax, farms…

1851-92 William Gibbs MP at Totaranui

1995 Microsoft starts making Windows NT

1964 Beatlesarrive in New York

1945 Atomic bomb wipes out Hiroshima 1953 Korean War

1949 Dutch end colonisation of Indonesia

1933 first concentration camp at Dachau

1925 Mein Kampfpublished

1917 Russian revolution

A country at last…

1900 1920 1940 1960 1980

1900 Van Gogh commits suicide

1910Mr B’s dadwas born

1954 Mr B was born

1902 T-Rex discovered

1914-18 WWI1938-45 WWII

1969 Man sets foot on the Moon

1924 Lenin dies1923 Charlestondance becomes popular

1952 QEII

1963 Pres Kennedy assassinated

1976 Chairman Mao Zedong diesConcorde flies

1975 USA withdraws from South Vietnam

1982 Argentina takes on Britain in the Falklands.Internet takes off

1954-76 Pickering heads NASA Jet Propulsion Unit – Explorer – the Moon and Mariner

1981 Springbok Tour protests

1907 NZ Colony toindependent Dominion

1931 Napier earthquake

1929-35 The Great Depression

1914 ANZAC at Gallipoli

1950-53 Kiwis in South Korea

1965-75 Kiwis serve in Vietnam

1968 Wahinedisaster

1979 DC 10 crashes into Mt Erebus

1975 Waitangi Tribunal set up

1953 Hillary climbs Mt Everest1923 Katherine

Mansfield dies in France1912 Pelorus

Jack disappears

2004 Banda Aceh Tsunami kills over 250 000

2001 al Qaeda 9/11 attack on WTC Twin Towers

Now and the future… what will we make of it?

2000 2020 2040 2060 2080

We were born

2000 Millennium Bug is a fizzer

2015…

2007 Full human genome mapped

2010 Pike River disaster

2011 184 Deaths in second Chch earthquake

2002 Kiwibankformed

References

http://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/old-map.html

http://www.theprow.org.nz/

2004; Stenson, Maracia; Illustrated History of New Zealand; Random House; Auckland

Macrohistory and World Timeline http://www.fsmitha.com/index.html

http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/pacific/tasman/tasman.html

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en

http://www.backpack-newzealand.com/images/history

http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-NHSJ03_02-t1-body-d3.html

http://www.doc.govt.nz/Documents/conservation/historic/by-region/nelson-marlborough/abel-tasman-area-history-whole-document.pdf