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Name: new zealand

Type: Cluster

Start: 1840 AD

End: 2022 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • New Zealand (Great Britain)
  • New Zealand (GB Dominion)
  • New Zealand
  • Establishment


  • November 1840: The Colony of New Zealand was chartered and split from New South Wales.
  • Chronology


    Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation

    1. World War I


    Was a global conflict between two coalitions, the Allies (primarily France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the United States) and the Central Powers (led by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire). It was mainly caused by the competition of the western countries over domain in Europe and in the rest of the world with their colonial empires. The war ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. The war also caused the Russian Revolution and the ensuing Russian Civil War.

    1.1.World War I Pacific Theatre

    Was the Pacific theatre of World War I.

  • August 1914: At the behest of the United Kingdom the colony of German Samoa was invaded unopposed by troops of the Samoa Expeditionary Force.

  • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • May 1842: The Auckland Islands were part of the Colony of New Zealand under the Letters Patent of April 1842.

  • January 1843: The Chatham Islands officially became part of the Colony of New Zealand in 1842.

  • January 1847: The Auckland Islands were excluded from New Zealand by the Act of 1846 which defined the southern boundary of New South Wales at 47° 10' south.

  • January 1864: The Auckland Islands were included by the New Zealand Boundaries Act of 1863, an act of the Imperial Parliament at Westminster which extended the boundaries of the colony once more.

  • January 1888: The Kermadec Islands or Kermadec Islands are an archipelago of a few small islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean that have been part of New Zealand since 1887.

  • June 1901: "A British Protectorate was declared over Niue, after which the island was integrated into New Zealand.

  • January 1902: The Cook Islands Federation lasted until 1901, when it was given to New Zealand.

  • September 1907: In 1907, at the request of the New Zealand Parliament, King Edward VII proclaimed New Zealand a Dominion within the British Empire, reflecting its self-governing status.

  • December 1920: The League of Nations formally conferred a Class C Mandate over the former German Colony of Samoa to the Dominion of New Zealand.

  • February 1926: On February 11, 1926, in implementation of a decision of November 4, 1925, the islands of Tokelau came under the administration of New Zealand.

  • November 1947: Full independence was granted to New Zealand with the Statute of Westminster in 1931 and adopted by the New Zealand Parliament in 1947.

  • November 1947: Full independence was granted to New Zealand with the Statute of Westminster in 1931 and adopted by the New Zealand Parliament in 1947.

  • January 1962: Independence of Samoa.

  • October 1974: The New Zealand Parliament restored self-government in Niue with the 1974 constitution, following a referendum.

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