1836 in New Zealand

The following lists events that happened during 1836 in New Zealand.

Regal and viceregal

 * Head of State – King William IV
 * Governor of New South Wales – Major-General Sir Richard Bourke

Government and law

 * British Resident in New Zealand – James Busby
 * Additional British Resident in New Zealand – Thomas McDonnell until his resignation in July.

Events

 * July
 * – Additional British Resident in New Zealand, Thomas McDonnell resigns.
 * 26 December – John Hughes, W.I. Haberfield and others from the Weller brothers whaling station at Otakou arrive in the Magnet and set up a whaling station on the north side of Moeraki Point.


 * Undated
 * Captain John Howell is sent by whaler and merchant Johnny Jones to establish a whaling station at Riverton to replace that recently abandoned at Preservation Inlet. (see also 1829 and 1835)
 * The Stone Store at Kerikeri, the oldest stone building in New Zealand, is completed mid-year.
 * Late in the year Alfred Nesbitt Brown closes the mission at Matamata. (see also 1835 & 1838)

Births

 * 14 January (in England): Thomas Hocken, collector and bibliographer.

(in Ireland) Richard Reeves, politician.
 * Unknown date