14 January – Traders led by Joe Rowe are the first non-Māori to visit theWanganui area. The party includes Rowe, Andrew Powers, a man named Tom, and an African or African-American sailor.[1][2]
16 April – Trade in preserved Māori heads as curios is outlawed by the Governor of New South Wales.[3]
Joseph Brooks Weller arrives inOtago Harbour on theSir George Murray and makes an agreement with localMāori claiming territory forKing William IV before returning toSydney.
^This vessel may have been theJoseph Weller mentioned inWises New Zealand Guide 7th Edition, 1979. p.405. as having been the first ship built on the island some time after 1826.
^Armstrong, W.R. (1966)."ATKINSON, Sir Harry Albert, K.C.M.G."An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
