The following lists events that happened during 1827 in New Zealand.
Incumbents
Regal and viceregal Head of State – King George IV Governor of New South Wales – General Ralph Darling
Events 23 – 28 January - Jules Dumont d'Urville is the first European to make the passage through the notoriously dangerous French Pass thus determining the insularity of the island which now bears his name. On 23rd he discovers the passage; on 25th he sails it in a ship's boat; and on 28th he takes the corvette Astrolabe through, considered a 'masterful feat of seamanship'.Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 91.Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 109. 30 January – The Rosanna leaves the Hokianga Harbour for Sydney signalling the end of the attempt by the 1825 New Zealand Company to settle New Zealand. January – Ngāpuhi chief Hongi Hika is shot during a minor engagement at Mangamuka beach in the Hokianga. The wound is serious but Hongi survives for 14 months. – The Wesleyan mission at Kaeo, near Whangaroa, is sacked by Ngāti Uru as they leave the area after the attack by Ngāpuhi.Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Hongi Hika October - The second sailing ship built in New Zealand, the 40-ton schooner Enterprise, is completed in the Horeke shipyard (also known as Deptford) in the Hokianga Harbour. September – Captain William Wiseman in the Elizabeth on a flax trading voyage, names Port Cooper (now Lyttelton Harbour) after one of the owners of the Sydney trading firm, Cooper & Levy.Early Christchurch Undated John Guard establishes a whaling station at Te Awaiti on the Arapaoa Island shore of the Tory Channel. This is the first permanent land-based whaling station in New Zealand and the first European settlement in the South Island.New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Guard BiographyWises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 427Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 10Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 342Previous whaling stations have been seasonal or temporary; other settlements with Europeans have been predominantly Māori although that at Bluff may have had more than one European before 1827 (see 1924). Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha begins attacks on South Island tribes.
Births Undated Joseph Dransfield, first mayor of Wellington.No Mean City by Stuart Perry (1969, Wellington City Council) Dudley Ward, judge and politician.Obituary, Otago Daily Times, 1 September 1913 William Wood, politician. (in Scotland) William Fraser, politician
See also List of years in New Zealand Timeline of New Zealand history History of New Zealand Military history of New Zealand Timeline of the New Zealand environment Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica
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