1828 in New Zealand

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

• Head of State – King George IV
• Governor of New South Wales – General Ralph Darling

Events

• 3, 6 or 7 March - Ngāpuhi rangatira and war leader Hongi Hika dies at Whangaroa.
• 4 May - The 40-ton schooner Enterprise, the second sailing ship built in New Zealand, is wrecked in a storm north of the Hokianga, with the loss of all hands.
• 6 May - The 55-ton schooner, the first sailing ship built in New Zealand, is wreaked on the Hokianga bar, with no loss of life.

• John Guard establishes a subsidiary whaling station at Kakapo Bay in Port Underwood.
• Phillip Tapsell sets up a flax trading post at Maketu.
• Whalers Dicky Barrett, Jacky Love and others establish a trading post at Ngamotu Beach, the first Europeans to settle in the New Plymouth area.

Births

• 15 February : Gustavus von Tempsky, adventurer, soldier and painter.
• 23 March : Charles O'Neill, politician and philanthropist.

• Thomas Gillies, politician.

• Tohu Kākahi, Māori prophet and pacifist leader.

Deaths

• 3, 6 or 7 March Hongi Hika, New Zealand Chief

• Te Whareumu, Ngati Manu chief.