New Zealand Wars
Wars over land that cost the Māori their best territory
In March 1845 warriors of the chief Hōne Heke felled the British flagstaff again and sacked Kororāreka. This opened wars between the colonial government and some Māori iwi; other Māori fought for the Crown. The largest was the Waikato campaign of 1863–64. Some 3,000 people died by most estimates, and confiscations stripped Māori of over a million hectares of land.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1839 Birth of photography: the daguerreotype — 6 years earlier
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — same year
- 1848–1849 Revolutions of 1848 — 3 years later
- 1848 The Communist Manifesto — 3 years later
- 1861 Unification of Italy — 16 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — 8 years later
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — 16 years later
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — 22 years later
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 24 years later
Middle East
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — 17 years earlier
- 1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — 6 years earlier
- 1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — 6 years earlier
Africa
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — 10 years earlier
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — 2 years later
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — 24 years later
Asia
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — 14 years earlier
- 1839–1842 First Opium War — 6 years earlier
- 1850–1864 Taiping Rebellion — 5 years later
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — 8 years later
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — 23 years later
Americas
- 1835 Darwin in the Galápagos — 10 years earlier
- 1838–1839 Trail of Tears — 7 years earlier
- 1846 First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia — 1 year later
- 1846–1848 Mexican–American War — 1 year later
- 1861–1865 American Civil War — 16 years later
Alive at the time
- Charles Darwin (aged 36)
- Abraham Lincoln (aged 36)
- Karl Marx (aged 27)
- Queen Victoria (aged 26)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (aged 24)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 17)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 11)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 5)
- Katsushika Hokusai (aged 85)
- Andrew Jackson (aged 78)