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18 November 1769
Captain James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour are the first Europeans to visit the Hauraki Gulf. Cook anchors off Te Puru, near present-day Thames. On 20 November he takes a boat some way up the Waihou River. On 22 November he also lands briefly on the western shore of the Firth of Thames, possibly somewhere between Wharekawa and Whakatiwai.
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1-9 January 1770
Captain James Cook on the Endeavour clears Cape Maria van Diemen and sails southeast along the North Island's west coast. On 4 January he sails along a desolate and inhospitable coast of large sandhills and a dangerous sea. On 9 January, in the interval having been blown back upon his course, he sails past the Manukau Harbour entrance (although without noting it).
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ca 1785
The Ngati Paoa hapu, Ngati Hura, establishes itself on the western shores of the Tamaki. From their main settlements at Mauinaina and Mokoia (Panmure) Ngati Hura spread north to Te Wharau (Achilles Point) and south to the Otahuhu portage (see also 14 July 1820).
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ca 1790
About this time there are the first reports of a mysterious new disease called 'rewharewha' (probably influenza) breaking out in some northern Maori communities. A second epidemic occurs about 1810, although this does not seem to have affected the Tamaki area, since the settlements at Mokoia and Mauinaina remain heavily populated.
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1792 (?)
Ngati Paoa and Ngati Whatua clash at Puponga on the northern Manukau coastline and on the Waitemata. Early the following year Ngati Whatua and Waikato allies again clash with Ngati Paoa and Hauraki allies at Maraetai, on Waiheke Island, and at Te Pane o Horoiwi (West Tamaki Head), where Ngati Whatua are finally victorious; peace by exhaustion is then established between Ngati Whatua and Ngati Paoa.
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1793
Nga Puhi from upper Northland, seeking revenge for past Ngati Paoa raids, attack Ngati Paoa at Takapuna. Ngati Paoa are defeated and the survivors are pursued up the Wairoa River. Ngati Paoa, however, regroup and defeat Nga Puhi in a battle at the mouth of the Tamaki River. The following year they defeat Nga Puhi again on a raid to the Bay of Islands. Ngati Paoa are said to have used the famous canoe Te Kotuiti both at the battle in the Tamaki and on the raid into Northland (see also 18 May 1985).
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20 November 1794
The Fancy, under Captain E.T. Dell, is the first European ship to enter Hauraki Gulf after Cook's Endeavour. Dell spends three months in the Waihou River obtaining timber and flax. Several other trading ships similarly visit the Hauraki Gulf over the next few years.
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15 January 1815
The missionary Samuel Marsden visits the Firth of Thames on board the brig Active, commanded by Thomas Hansen. Marsden meets the Ngati Paoa chief, Te Haupa, on board. Accompanied by Captain J.L. Nicholas, he also visits Whakatiwai.
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14 July 1820
The Reverend Samuel Marsden arrives in the Hauraki Gulf for the second time, this time on board the HMS Coromandel. He makes an excursion to the Tamaki River and visits Mokoia, where he is received by the chief Te Hinaki. Marsden notes the dense population, extensive gardens, and abundance of pigs and potatoes. On this visit Marsden climbs Maungarei (Mt Wellington) and is thus the first European to sight the Manukau Harbour. (Some sources suggest that about this time he also preached at Maraetai or vicinity.)
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27 August 1820
Captain R.A. Cruise of the 84th Regiment visits the Tamaki on board the colonial schooner Prince Regent. He notes the prosperity of the Ngati Paoa people living at Mokoia.
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9 November 1820
The missionary Samuel Marsden again visits the Tamaki River, this time on a whale boat from the Bay of Islands. Accompanied by the Reverend John Butler, he crosses the isthmus to the Manukau, visits Onehunga, and is taken by canoe as far as the Manukau Heads.
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11 July 1821 (?)
About this time (the date is uncertain) Nga Puhi attack and kill a group of Ngati Paoa warriors at Taupo Bay (Kawakawa Bay).
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September 1821
Nga Puhi, led by Hongi Hika and armed with muskets, sweep through the Tamaki isthmus, overrunning and destroying the Ngati Paoa fortresses at Mokoia and Mauinaina. Mauinaina's inhabitants are massacred or enslaved, although some of the people from Mokoia escape and flee to the Waikato. About this time, Ngai Tai abandon their pa at Ohuiarangi (Pigeon Mountain), regarding it as indefensible in the new conditions of musket warfare. Te Akitai (and thus Te Wai O Hua) again move south. Even the war-like Ngati Paoa and other members of the Marutuahu tribes move southward over the next four years, taking refuge with their Ngati Raukawa relatives in the Waikato.
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March 1822
Another Nga Puhi taua or war party crosses the Otahuhu portage on its way south to attack the Waikato tribes. At this time, the Ngati Paoa settlements still lie abandoned, while Ngati Whatua have retreated into the Waitakere Ranges. After devastating Awhitu, clashing with Ngati Te Ata on the Waiuku River, and a delayed passage of the Awaroa portage, Hongi and his men take with great slaughter the Waikato pa of Matakitaki on the Waipa River.
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February 1823 (?)
There is a peace meeting at the Bay of Islands attended by Nga Puhi, Waikato and Ngati Whatua chiefs. Ngati Whatua are able to return at least temporarily to the Tamaki isthmus.
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March 1825
Nga Puhi crush Ngati Whatua o Kaipara in a great battle at Kaiwaka (Te Ika-a-ranga- nui). Later in the year Hongi pursues the survivors into the Waikato.
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December (?) 1825
In fear of Nga Puhi, Ngati Whatua again abandon the isthmus. Te Uringutu at first move to Pokeno, then seek the protection of Ngati Paoa at Whakatiwai. For a period of about two years Apihai Te Kawau and his Te Tao and Nga Oho hapu range from the Waipa, to Karangahape, to Mahurangi, to the Waitakere Ranges, and to Whakatiwai, before finding refuge in the Waikato again.
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May 1826
A Nga Puhi taua led by the chief Pomare is defeated on the Waipa by a combined force of Ngati Tipa, Ngati Tamaoho, Ngati Paoa and Ngati Tamatera warriors. Pomare and most of his men are killed, the survivors being pursued as far as Awhitu.
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23 September 1826
The first New Zealand Company purchases Pakihi and several other islands in the Hauraki Gulf. This is the first recorded land transaction with pakeha in the region.
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25 February 1827
The French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville visits the Hauraki gulf on the frigate L'Astrolabe. A party of d'Urville's men under M. Lottin take a whale boat up the Tamaki River and cross the isthmus to the shores of the Manukau Harbour. They note that there are fishing villages on both the Tamaki and the Manukau: Ngati Paoa have returned to the area, but are constantly alert to the possibility of Nga Puhi attack. (Ngati Paoa never return in large numbers to the Tamaki, but mostly settle on Waiheke, Motutapu and along the shores of the Firth of Thames.)
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