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  1. Complete the sentence about History of New Zealand with the correct year: The first European explorer known to have visited New Zealand was the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman, on 13 December ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about History of New Zealand with the correct year: In ______ he charted the west coast of the North Island, his expedition then sailed back to Batavia without setting foot on Ne…
  3. Complete the sentence about History of New Zealand with the correct year: British explorer James Cook, who reached New Zealand in October ______ on the first of his three voyages, was the first Europe…
  4. Complete the sentence about History of New Zealand with the correct year: Disputes over the differing versions of the Treaty and settler desire to acquire land from Māori led to the New Zealand Wars f…
  5. Complete the sentence about Māori people with the correct year: With the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in ______, the two cultures coexisted for a generation.
  6. Complete the sentence about Māori people with the correct year: After the Treaty was declared a legal nullity in ______, Māori were forced to assimilate into many aspects of Western culture.
  7. Complete the sentence about Abel Tasman with the correct year: In ______, he joined the VOC and sailed to Batavia, now Jakarta, Indonesia.
  8. Complete the sentence about Abel Tasman with the correct year: In ______, Tasman was appointed by the VOC to lead an expedition to explore the uncharted regions of the southern Pacific Ocean.
  9. Complete the sentence about Abel Tasman with the correct year: Tasman continued to serve the Dutch East India Company until his death in ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about James Cook with the correct year: Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager before enlisting in the Royal Navy in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about James Cook with the correct year: In ______, during his second visit to Hawaii, Cook was killed when a dispute with Native Hawaiians turned violent.
  12. Complete the sentence about James Cook with the correct year: In ______, his family moved to Airey Holme farm at Great Ayton, where his father's employer, Thomas Skottowe, paid for Cook to attend a sc…
  13. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Waitangi with the correct year: The treaty's status has clouded the question of whether Māori had ceded sovereignty to the Crown in ______, and if so, whether suc…
  14. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Waitangi with the correct year: In total there are nine signed copies of the Treaty of Waitangi, including the sheet signed on 6 February ______ at Waitangi.
  15. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Waitangi with the correct year: In the period following the New Zealand Wars, the New Zealand government mostly ignored the treaty, and a court judgement in _____…
  16. Complete the sentence about New Zealand Wars with the correct year: Traders, Sydney businessmen and the New Zealand Company had bought large tracts of land before ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Hōne Heke with the correct year: Heke was born at Pakaraka, south of Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands, in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Hōne Heke with the correct year: One item involved the shifting of the capital of the new colony from Okiato to Auckland in ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Hōne Heke with the correct year: In ______/45 the copper was worth 7000 pounds, about a third of Auckland's total exports for that period of time.
  20. Complete the sentence about Te Rauparaha with the correct year: In ______, a panel of historians and journalists ranked Te Rauparaha 16th out of the 100 most influential figures in New Zealand history…
  21. Complete the sentence about Te Rauparaha with the correct year: In ______ Ngāti Toa and related tribes were being forced out of their land around Kāwhia after years of fighting with various Waikato tr…
  22. Complete the sentence about Te Kooti with the correct year: While fighting alongside government forces against the Hauhau in ______, he was accused of spying.
  23. Complete the sentence about Te Kooti with the correct year: In ______ he led the escape of 168 prisoners, seizing the schooner Rifleman and sailing back to the North Island where he began a series of…
  24. Complete the sentence about Te Kooti with the correct year: In ______, he became notorious as one of a group of young Māori causing trouble in the Gisborne district.
  25. Complete the sentence about Māori King Movement with the correct year: The first Māori king, Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, was crowned in ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Māori King Movement with the correct year: Following their defeat at Ōrākau in ______, the Kingites withdrew into the Ngāti Maniapoto tribal region of the North Island that…
  27. Complete the sentence about New Zealand Company with the correct year: In May ______ Wakefield was released from prison and joined the National Colonisation Society, whose committee included Wilmot-Ho…
  28. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 3 May ______, he proclaimed British sovereignty over New Zealand.
  29. Complete the sentence about William Hobson with the correct year: In May ______, New Zealand was constituted as a separate Crown colony with Hobson promoted to governor and commander-in-chief.
  30. Complete the sentence about William Hobson with the correct year: Whilst anchored at Cayo Guajaba, in the province of Camagüey, Cuba, on 29 September ______, Whim was captured by pirate leader Pepe Di…
  31. Complete the sentence about Otago gold rush with the correct year: In September ______, Charles Ring, a timber merchant, claimed the prize for a find in Coromandel.
  32. Complete the sentence about Otago gold rush with the correct year: The first known European Otago gold find was at Goodwood, near Palmerston in October ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 with the correct year: The act took effect upon proclamation by Governor George Grey on 17 January ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 with the correct year: The company's first settlement, Wellington, briefly had its own elected council during ______, which dissolved itse…
  35. Complete the sentence about Julius Vogel with the correct year: In November ______, he founded the Otago Daily Times and became its first editor.
  36. Complete the sentence about Julius Vogel with the correct year: In ______ James Grant was charged with criminal libel against Vogel in an election pamphlet but was found not guilty by a jury.
  37. Complete the sentence about Julius Vogel with the correct year: On 19 March ______, Vogel got married in Dunedin to his neighbour Mary "Polly" Clayton, the daughter of architect William Henry Clayton.
  38. Complete the sentence about Julius Vogel with the correct year: Vogel first became involved in politics in ______, winning election to the provincial council of Otago.
  39. Complete the sentence about Richard Seddon with the correct year: When the Liberal Government came to power in ______ Seddon was appointed to several portfolios, including Minister of Public Works.
  40. Complete the sentence about Richard Seddon with the correct year: An imperialist in foreign policy, his attempt to incorporate Fiji into New Zealand failed, but he successfully annexed the Cook Island…
  41. Complete the sentence about Richard Seddon with the correct year: Seddon was born in the town of Eccleston, near St Helens in Lancashire, England, on 22 June ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Women's suffrage in New Zealand with the correct year: The electoral bill granting women the franchise was given royal assent by Governor Lord Glasgow on 19 September _____…
  43. Complete the sentence about Women's suffrage in New Zealand with the correct year: In ______, under a pseudonym, Mary Müller wrote An appeal to the men of New Zealand, the first pamphlet on the issue…
  44. Complete the sentence about Women's suffrage in New Zealand with the correct year: From ______, several attempts were made to pass bills enabling female suffrage, the first of which was authored by Ju…
  45. Complete the sentence about Women's suffrage in New Zealand with the correct year: In ______, Walter Carncross moved an amendment that was intended to make a new bill fail in the Legislative Council.
  46. Complete the sentence about Kate Sheppard with the correct year: Born in Liverpool, England, she emigrated to New Zealand with her family in ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about Kate Sheppard with the correct year: In ______ she was appointed the WCTU NZ's National Superintendent for Franchise and Legislation, a position she used to advance the cau…
  48. Complete the sentence about Kate Sheppard with the correct year: Kate Sheppard was born Catherine Wilson Malcolm on 10 March ______ in Liverpool, England, to Scottish parents Jemima Crawford Souter an…
  49. Complete the sentence about Dominion of New Zealand with the correct year: Just under one million people lived in New Zealand in ______ and cities such as Auckland and Wellington were growing rapidly.
  50. Complete the sentence about Dominion of New Zealand with the correct year: When the Second World War broke out in ______ the New Zealand Government made its own decision to enter the war.
  51. Complete the sentence about Statute of Westminster 1931 with the correct year: Passed on 11 December ______, the statute increased the sovereignty of the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire…
  52. Complete the sentence about Statute of Westminster 1931 with the correct year: England, and Britain after ______, had colonies outside of Europe since the late 16th century.
  53. Complete the sentence about Michael Joseph Savage with the correct year: A labourer, he became a trade unionist, and in ______ was elected president of the Auckland Trades and Labour Council.
  54. Complete the sentence about Michael Joseph Savage with the correct year: Savage supported the formation of the New Zealand Labour Party in July ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Michael Joseph Savage with the correct year: Savage was elected unopposed as Labour Party leader in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Michael Joseph Savage with the correct year: Savage led the Labour Party to its first ever electoral victory in the ______ election.
  57. Complete the sentence about Peter Fraser with the correct year: In ______, Fraser was involved in the foundation of the unified Labour Party.
  58. Complete the sentence about Peter Fraser with the correct year: In ______, Fraser won a Wellington by-election and entered the House of Representatives.
  59. Complete the sentence about Peter Fraser with the correct year: Fraser became a cabinet minister in ______, serving under Michael Joseph Savage.
  60. Complete the sentence about Peter Fraser with the correct year: As Minister of Health, he introduced the Social Security Act ______, which established a universal health care service.
  61. Complete the sentence about Gallipoli campaign with the correct year: In March ______, the Allied fleet failed to force a passage through the Dardanelles.
  62. Complete the sentence about Gallipoli campaign with the correct year: An amphibious landing on the Gallipoli peninsula began in April ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about Gallipoli campaign with the correct year: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who rose to prominence as a commander at Gallipoli, became the founder and first president of the Republic…
  64. Complete the sentence about New Zealand in World War I with the correct year: The military history of New Zealand during World War I began in August ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about New Zealand in World War I with the correct year: On 30 July ______, the British Admiralty informed Captain Herbert Marshall, the senior naval officer in New Zealand, by te…
  66. Complete the sentence about New Zealand in World War II with the correct year: The Long Range Desert Group was formed in North Africa in ______ with New Zealand and Rhodesian as well as British volunt…
  67. Complete the sentence about New Zealand in World War II with the correct year: From January ______, workers could be "manpowered" or directed to essential industries.
  68. Complete the sentence about Battle of Crete with the correct year: No RAF units were based permanently at Crete until April ______, but airfield construction had begun, radar sites had been built and…
  69. Complete the sentence about 2nd New Zealand Division with the correct year: In late ______, the division was moved to Italy, taking part in the Eighth Army's campaign on Italy's Adriatic coast, which…
  70. Complete the sentence about 2nd New Zealand Division with the correct year: In early ______, the division formed the nucleus of the New Zealand Corps, fighting two battles attempting unsuccessfully to…
  71. Complete the sentence about 2nd New Zealand Division with the correct year: After returning to New Zealand, reorganised elements of the division formed part of the occupational forces in Japan from __…
  72. Complete the sentence about 2nd New Zealand Division with the correct year: At the outbreak of the Second World War in September ______, it was decided that New Zealand should provide an Expeditionary…
  73. Complete the sentence about 2nd New Zealand Division with the correct year: The first echelon, 2NZEF Headquarters and the 4th Infantry Brigade, left New Zealand in January and landed in Egypt on 12 Fe…
  74. Complete the sentence about Māori Battalion with the correct year: On 26 January ______, the battalion came together for the first time, marking its official raising at the Palmerston North Show Groun…
  75. Complete the sentence about Māori Battalion with the correct year: After 14 days of leave, the battalion conducted a five-week concentration period before embarking on 1 May ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about ANZAC Day with the correct year: At the end of ______, the Allied forces were evacuated after both sides had suffered heavy casualties and endured great hardships.
  77. Complete the sentence about Anzac Cove with the correct year: On Anzac Day in ______, the name "Anzac Cove" was officially recognised by the Turkish government.
  78. Complete the sentence about Anzac Cove with the correct year: The Anzac Day dawn service was held at Arıburnu Cemetery within the cove until ______ when the number of people attending outgrew the site…
  79. Complete the sentence about New Zealand Labour Party with the correct year: The New Zealand Labour Party formed in ______ out of various socialist parties and trade unions.
  80. Complete the sentence about New Zealand Labour Party with the correct year: In ______, prime minister Norman Kirk died in office, which contributed to a decline in party support.
  81. Complete the sentence about New Zealand National Party with the correct year: Keith Holyoake succeeded Holland, and was defeated months later at ______ general election.
  82. Complete the sentence about New Zealand National Party with the correct year: In ______, Jim Bolger formed another National government, which continued the radical free-market reforms initiated by the…
  83. Complete the sentence about New Zealand National Party with the correct year: Following the first MMP election in ______, the National Party governed in a coalition with the populist New Zealand First…
  84. Complete the sentence about Keith Holyoake with the correct year: Having played an instrumental role in the formation of the National Party in ______, he lost his seat two years later.
  85. Complete the sentence about Keith Holyoake with the correct year: Following National's first election victory, Holyoake entered Cabinet in ______.
  86. Complete the sentence about Keith Holyoake with the correct year: In ______, he was appointed the first deputy prime minister of New Zealand, under Sidney Holland.
  87. Complete the sentence about Keith Holyoake with the correct year: Holyoake became leader of the National Party and prime minister two months before the ______ election, after Holland's resignation due…
  88. Complete the sentence about Keith Holyoake with the correct year: Following an election defeat, he served as the leader of the Opposition for three years before National returned to power in ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Norman Kirk with the correct year: Born into poverty in South Canterbury, Kirk left school at the age of 13 and later joined the New Zealand Labour Party in ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Norman Kirk with the correct year: Kirk relented to public pressure and discontinued the raids in April ______.
  91. Complete the sentence about Norman Kirk with the correct year: In private, he suffered from effects of obesity and work exhaustion; his health rapidly deteriorated in the winter of ______, and he died…
  92. Complete the sentence about Robert Muldoon with the correct year: The early death of prime minister Norman Kirk severely weakened the Labour Party, and Muldoon soon led National to a decisive victory…
  93. Complete the sentence about Robert Muldoon with the correct year: At the ______ snap election, which Muldoon announced while intoxicated on live television, National finally suffered a significant def…
  94. Complete the sentence about Robert Muldoon with the correct year: Mounting legal costs encouraged Muldoon to pursue a novelty acting career, but he remained in parliament until his retirement in _____…
  95. Complete the sentence about David Lange with the correct year: After serving as legal advisor to the Polynesian Panthers, Lange was first elected to the New Zealand Parliament in the Mangere by-electi…
  96. Complete the sentence about David Lange with the correct year: Lange became the leader of the Labour Party and leader of the Opposition in ______, succeeding Bill Rowling.
  97. Complete the sentence about David Lange with the correct year: Lange and his party were re-elected in August ______; he resigned two years later and was succeeded by his deputy, Geoffrey Palmer.
  98. Complete the sentence about David Lange with the correct year: Lange was born on 4 August ______ in Ōtāhuhu, a small industrial borough since absorbed into Auckland.
  99. Complete the sentence about Jim Bolger with the correct year: Bolger won election to Parliament in ______, and subsequently served in several portfolios in the Third National Government.
  100. Complete the sentence about Jim Bolger with the correct year: Bolger led the National Party to a landslide victory, the largest in its history, in the ______ election, leading him to become prime mini…

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