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180 matches to New Zealand
ANZAC. Australian+New Zealand forces in WWI. Gallipoli.
Cook, James. 1728-79. English explorer. Sailed to Tahiti to see transit of Venus, 1768. Charted New Zealand 1769. Claimed Australia 1770.
Hillary, Sir Edmund. 1919-2008. New Zealand, first to climb Mt. Everest, 1953, with Tenzig Norgay.
Maori. Polynesian people of New Zealand. Migrated before 800 AD (1150 by their legend).
National Party. 1936-. New Zealand conservative anti-Labour party.
Native Land Acts. 1862, 65-92. New Zealand abolishes tribal land ownership, destroying traditional Maori society.
Nauru. 1798 Sighted. 1888 Germany (Marshall Is). 1914 Australia. 1920 Britain/Ausralia/New Zealand mandate. 1942 Japanese occupy. 1947 Australian trust. 1968 Independent republic.
New Zealand. <8C Maori. 1642 Tasman discovers. 1840 British. 1852 Autonomous. 1907 Dominion.
Suffrage, Women. 1893 New Zealand. 1902 Australia. 1906 Finland. 1913 Norway. 1915 Denmark. 1917 USSR. 1918 Canada. 1918/28 Britain. Reform Bills. 1920 US. 1971 Switzerland. 1976 Liechtenstein. Not yet in Arab countries. Wyoming.
Tasman, Abel. c1603-59. Dutch navigator. Discovered Tasmania, New Zealand. 1642; Fiji, Tonga 1643.
Wairau Affray. 1843. Maori kill 22 English Settlers in New Zealand. Maori Wars.
Waìtangi, Treaty. 1840. Britain annexes New Zealand from Maori.
Western Samoa. Samoa. 1899 German. 1920 New Zealand League of Nations mandate. 1962 Independent.
Aasen, Ivar. 1813-96. Developed New Norwegian language, officially adopted, 1907.
Abstract Expressionism. 1940s New York style of Pollock, Rothko. Spontaneous expression, free of traditional values. Expressionism.
Action Française. 1898-1945. French right wing political movement and newspaper.
Alexander VI. Pope. Demarcation Bull 1493 divided newly discovered land between Spain, Portugal. Tordesillas.
Antonine Wall. 142. Scotland. North of Hadrian’s. Abandoned ~196. Antoninus.
Antoninus, Pius. 86-161. Roman Emperor 138-. Built Antonine Wall.
Armstrong, Louis. 1900-71. US New Orleans Jazz trumpeter and band leader.
Ayala Plan. 1911. Zapata to renew Mexican Revolution, return land to communal ownership.
Bacon, Francis. 1561-1626. English chancellor and philosopher. First king’s counsel. Favoured inductive over deductive reasoning. Separated Science from religion. New Atlantis 1625. B. Scientific method: Novum Organum 1620. Essays 1625.
Baïf, Jean Antoine de. 1532-89. French Pléiade poet. New metrical forms. Founded Academy of Music and Poetry 1571, in Paris.
Baker, Herbert. 1862-1946. English architect: Pretoria government buildings; New Delhi.
Basil I. 813-886. Byzantine Emperor, 867-. Defeated Arabs. New Golden Age. Founded Macedonian dynasty.