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Timeline of New Zealand history From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a?timeline of the?history of New Zealand?and only includes events deemed to be of principal importance - for more detailed information click the year heading or refer to?List of years in New Zealand. Contents ??[hide]? 1?Prehistory (to 1000 CE) 2?Pre-colonial time (1000 to 1839) 2.1?1000 to 1600 2.2?17th century 2.3?18th century 2.4?Early 19th century; 1801-1839 3?Colony and self-government (1840 to 1946) 3.1?1840s 3.2?1850s 3.3?1860s 3.4?1870s 3.5?1880s 3.6?1890s 3.7?1900s 3.8?1910s 3.9?1920s 3.10?1930s 3.11?1940 to 1946 4?Full independence (1947 to 1983) 4.1?1947 to 1949 4.2?1950s 4.3?1960s 4.4?1970s 4.5?1980s 5?Restructuring (1984 to date) 5.1?1984 to 1989 5.2?1990s 5.3?2000s 5.4?2010s 6?See also 7?References 8?External links Prehistory (to 1000 CE)[edit] 85?mya: Around this time New Zealand splits from the supercontinent?Gondwana[1] 5 mya: New Zealands climate cools as Australia drifts north. Animals that have adapted to warm temperate and subtropical conditions become extinct 26,500 BP: the Taupo volcano?erupts extremely violently, covering much of the country with?ignimbrite?or?volcanic ash?and causing the?Waikato River?to avulse from the?Hauraki Plains?to its current path through the Waikato to theTasman Sea. 18,000 BP: New Zealands North and South islands are connected by a land bridge during the last ice age. Glaciers spread from the Southern Alps carving valleys and making fiords in the South Island. The land bridge is submerged around 9,700 BCE 181 CE:?Lake Taupo?erupts violently.[2][3] Pre-colonial time (1000 to 1839)[edit] 1000 to 1600[edit] c1280: Earliest archaeological sites provide evidence that initial settlement of New Zealand occurred around 1280 CE.[4] ~1300: Most likely period of ongoing early settlement of New Zealand by Polynesian people (the Archaic Moa-Hunter Culture).[5] 1400~1500: Development of the Classic Māori Material Culture including expansion of Māori set