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23 – 28 January - Jules Dumont d'Urville is the first European to make the passage through the notoriously dangerous French Pass thus determining the insularity of the island which now bears his name. On 23rd he discovers the passage; on 25th he sails it in a ship's boat; and on 28th he takes the corvette Astrolabe through, considered a 'masterful feat of seamanship'.^[1]^[2]
30 January – The Rosanna leaves the Hokianga Harbour for Sydney signalling the end of the attempt by the 1825 New Zealand Company to settle New Zealand.^[3]^[4]
January
- – Ngāpuhi chief Hongi Hika is shot during a minor engagement at Mangamuka beach in the Hokianga.^[5] The wound is serious but Hongi survives for 14 months.
- – The Wesleyan mission at Kaeo, near Whangaroa, is sacked by Ngāti Uru as they leave the area after the attack by Ngāpuhi.^[6]
October
- - The second sailing ship built in New Zealand, the 40-ton schooner Enterprise, is completed in the Horeke shipyard (also known as Deptford) in the Hokianga Harbour.^[7]
September
- – Captain William Wiseman in the Elizabeth on a flax trading voyage, names Port Cooper (now Lyttelton Harbour) after one of the owners of the Sydney trading firm, Cooper & Levy.^[8]

John Guard establishes a whaling station at Te Awaiti on the Arapaoa Island shore of the Tory Channel. This is the first permanent land-based whaling station in New Zealand and the first European settlement in the South Island.^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]
Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha begins attacks on South Island tribes.

^ Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 91.
^ Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 109.
^ New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: 1825 New Zealand Company
^ "Early European Visits to NZ". Archived from the original on 9 November 2007. Retrieved 11 October 2007.
^ New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Hongi Hika Biography
^ Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Hongi Hika
^ "First Commercial Shipyard in Horeke". Archived from the original on 5 April 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
^ Early Christchurch
^ New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Guard Biography
^ Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 427
^ Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 10
^ Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 342
^ Previous whaling stations have been seasonal or temporary; other settlements with Europeans have been predominantly Māori although that at Bluff may have had more than one European before 1827 (see 1924).
^ No Mean City by Stuart Perry (1969, Wellington City Council)
^ Obituary, Otago Daily Times, 1 September 1913
^ Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.

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