1800 in New Zealand

Events

• March: HMS Reliance, Captain Henry Waterhouse, discovers and charts the Antipodes Islands.
• 11 May: The Betsey, Captain John Myers, leaves Port Jackson for Peru. En route she visits Hauraki for three days to collect timber. On board are two pākehā women, the first to visit the North Island.

• Samuel Marsden becomes the principal, and at the time only remaining, chaplain for New South Wales.

  Births

• 18 July : William Williams, first Bishop of Waiapu.
• 1 October : James Reddy Clendon, settler and public official

• c.1800 : John Guard, whaler and trader, first permanent European resident in the South Island.

  Deaths