1818 in New Zealand
The following lists events that happened during 1818 in New Zealand.
Incumbents
Regal and viceregal
- Head of State – King George III. With Prince George, Prince of Wales as prince regent.
- Governor of New South Wales – Lachlan Macquarie
Events
- January – Te Morenga leads 400 against Ngāiterangi and Ngāti Porou. They destroy the Matarehu pā on Mōtītī Island but the Ngāiterangi chief, Te Waru, is absent. They proceed to East Cape and campaign for several months against Ngāti Porou.
- 7 February – Hongi Hika leads a second Ngā Puhi campaign against Ngāti Porou. They ravage many villages in the Bay of Plenty before passing East Cape and attacking Ngāti Porou in Hicks Bay.
- November – Te Morenga returns to the Bay of Islands.
- 12 November – Thomas Holloway King, the first European born in New Zealand, dies, and is buried at Rangihoua.
- Thomas Kendall's school at Rangihoua closes.
- Kendall sends a manuscript spelling book of Māori to the Church Missionary Society but Professor Lee raises some doubts over it.
Births
- 28 July : Thomas Mason, horticulturist and politician.
- : James FitzGerald, politician.
- Frederick Merriman, politician.