1816 in New Zealand

The following lists events that happened during 1816 in New Zealand.

Regal and viceregal

 * Head of State – King George III. With Prince George, Prince of Wales as prince regent.
 * Governor of New South Wales – Lachlan Macquarie

Events

 * 22 January – Large numbers of Māori from North Cape, Whangaroa and Thames visit the mission at Rangihoua.
 * February – Thomas and Elizabeth Hansen arrive at Oihi, Rangihoua from Port Jackson on the Active. They are the first non-missionary European family to settle in New Zealand. They eventually raised 11 children who all lived to at least their late 60s.
 * March – Tui and Tītore, who arrived the previous year, leave Port Jackson (Sydney) for England in HMS Kangaroo. While there they may have helped Professor Samuel Lee start his Maori dictionary.
 * 16 August – Thomas Kendall starts the first school in New Zealand, at Rangihoua. The opening roll is 33.

Births

 * 31 July (in Ireland): Trevor Chute, leader of British forces in the Second Taranaki War.
 * Undated


 * William Daldy, politician
 * (in England): Edward Dobson, Canterbury provincial engineer
 * William Guyton, Mayor of Wellington
 * John Wheeler King, the first European male born in New Zealand to reach adulthood
 * Henry Tancred, politician

Deaths

 * approximate
 * Charlotte Badger; one of the first two female settlers in New Zealand.