1829 in New Zealand

The following lists events that happened during 1829 in New Zealand.

Regal and viceregal

 * Head of State – King George IV
 * Governor of New South Wales – General Ralph Darling

Events

 * 29 November – Alfred Nesbitt Brown arrives in Paihia. He is the third ordained minister in New Zealand.


 * Undated
 * James Farrow, the first trader known to have frequented the Tauranga area, arrives for the first time. (see also 1838)
 * A whaling station is established at Preservation Inlet on the south-west corner of the South Island by Captain William Anglem.

Births

 * 14 February (in England): Richard Burgess, murderer.
 * 31 March (in England): Maria Rye, social reformer.
 * 30 April (in Germany): Ferdinand von Hochstetter, geologist.
 * 22 July: William Leonard Williams, Māori language scholar and Bishop of Waiapu.
 * 26 November (in England): Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore, Governor of New Zealand.
 * Undated
 * Frederick Joseph Moss, politician.
 * (in England): Henry Richmond, Superintendent of Taranaki.