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The following lists events that happened during 1821 in New Zealand.
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- 12 July – Thomas Kendall, Hongi Hika and Waikato arrive back in the Bay of Islands from their trip to England. While in England they have helped to compile a Maori dictionary, met King George IV who gave Hongi a suit of armour, and Hongi has acquired a number of muskets (his primary purpose).[1][2][3][4]
- 20 July – Grass is sown for the first time in New Zealand, on land cleared from fern at Kerikeri.[5]
- 5 September – Hongi Hika and 2000 Ngā Puhi, armed with 1000 muskets, lay siege to Mauinaina pā at Tamaki. The pā is taken and the inhabitants massacred.[4]
- September
- – John Gare Butler and his family move into the Mission House even though it is still unfinished.[5]
- Undated
- Construction of the Mission House is started.[5]
- Late in the year Hongi Hika and Ngā Puhi lay siege to the Ngāti Maru pā at Te Totara (Thames), but after 2 days they make peace with the defenders and withdraw. They return that night and take the pā without difficulty.[4]
- Te Rauparaha and Ngāti Toa move south from Kawhia to resettle in Taranaki after several defeats by Waikato and Ngāti Maniapoto.[6][7]
- 21 February (in Scotland): James Menzies, Superintendent of Southland Province.[8]
- 12 July (in England): William Richmond, politician.[9]
- 10 August (in England): John Turnbull Thomson, engineer and surveyor.[10]
- 29 August (in Kerikeri): Elizabeth Fairburn (later Elizabeth Colenso), missionary and Bible translator.[11]
- 10 September (in England): William Jervois, 10th Governor of New Zealand[12]
- 2 November (in Ireland): George Bowen, 5th Governor of New Zealand.[13]
- Undated
- John Bacot, politician.[14]
- (in England): Samuel Bealey, runholder and politician.[15]
- (in England): Thomas Brunner, explorer.[16]
- (in Scotland): John Cargill, politician.[14]
- Oswald Curtis, politician.[14]
- George Hunter, politician.[14]
- (in England): Charles Kettle, surveyor of Dunedin.[17]
- Reader Wood, politician.[14]
- Approximate
- (in England): William Montgomery, politician and merchant.[18]
- (in Ireland): George O'Brien, painter.[19]
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