New Zealand History

ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The troops landed at Gallipoli on the Turkish Aegean coast on 25 April 1915. It is believed that because of a navigational error, the ANZACs accidentally came ashore a mile or so north of the intended landing point. Instead of facing the expected beach and gentle slope they found themselves at the bottom of steep cliffs, offering the few Turkish defenders an ideal defensive position. Of the 1500 men who waded ashore that first day, 755 remained in active service at the end of the day. The remainder were killed or wounded. The first landing of troops was made by the Third Australian Brigade which, according to war correspondent C.E.W.Bean, consisted of men from Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania, had been chosen to make the landing, many of whom were miners from the Broken Hill and Western Australian gold-fields. One of the men who landed with the ANZACs was John Simpson Kirkpatrick, who took one of the donkeys that had also been landed (or rather, that successfully swam ashore when thrown overboard), and started ferrying wounded men up and down "Shrapnel Gully". Simpson continued this service for just over three weeks until he was killed, whereupon New Zealander Richard Henderson took over Simpson's job. Establishing a foothold, the ANZACs found an advance to be impossible. After eight months of stalemate, the Allies withdrew from the peninsula, leaving about 8700 dead amongst the troops.

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After Captain Cooks exploration of New Zealand in the late 18th century, an increasing amount of settlers began to arrive in New Zealand, and by 1839, it was estimated that there was over 2,000 people living there. There was now two groups of people in the land and this presented a problem. The British and the Maori people had two different governments and two completely different ways of life, and with these two groups basically living side-by-side, the clash between these two groups and the lack of knowledge they knew about one another soon erupted into civil and land wars starting all over New Zealand. Something had to be done. In 1833 after a large number of wars the Crown government appointed James Busby as a British governor to control the British trading and find a resolution to the ever-growing conflict between the Settlers and Maori people. In 1835, French people were looking to trade and settle somewhere and began to buy land from the white settlers in New Zealand. As a result the British government signed a Declaration of Independence with some of the British Settlers and 34 Northern Maori chiefs. This confirmed that New Zealand was now an independent country under British rule, and that there was to be no buying of land without the permission of Maori leaders, stating that 'No claim can be made on New Zealand without Maori agreement'. Although the Declaration was now active and James Busby was still present in New Zealand, there still continued to be an increasing amount of fighting, and land was still being sold without Maori consent. Once again, something had to be done, and the British government decided that there needed to be something that could allow a more effective rule in New Zealand. They came up with the idea of a treaty, and in 1840 sent Captain William Hobson there as Lieutenant-Governor to see that the treaty came to pass. His mission was to get hold of the Sovereignty of New Zealand, by way of a treaty with the native Maori Chiefs.The Treaty was needed to stop the fighting and selling off of land without the native peoples(Maori) consent. A treaty was drawn up and translated and after much discussion the Treaty was signed on Feburary 6, 1840 at Waitangi in the Bay of Islands . Then by more chiefs around New Zealand. This is the most famous Treatie made in New Zealand History , and on 6th Feburary every year , there is a celebration and national holiday in Waitangi , and all over New Zealand.

April 25 is ANZAC Day, which marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. It was the first time that Australians had fought as a nation since Federation of the states.

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Anzac Day is a day in April that is celebrated in New Zealand and Australia to commemorate their soldiers who fought in the ANZAC in World War 1 in Galipoli and elsewhere. see related link below.

Yes and no. From 1916 onwards, in both Australia and New Zealand, ANZAC services were held on or about April 25, mainly organised by returned servicemen and school children in cooperation with local authorities. ANZAC Day was gazetted as a public holiday in New Zealand in 1921. In Australia, it was decided at the 1921 state premiers conference that ANZAC Day be observed on April 25 each year. Initially, it was not observed uniformly in all the states. In 1927, all Australians began to commemorate the day with a public holiday.

The events of the first ANZAC Day occurred in 1915. The year 2009 marks the 106th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing.

Abel Tasman is important to Australia because he was the first European to discover Tasmania.

Abel Janszoon Tasman was a Dutch seafarer and explorer born in 1603 in the village of Lutjegast, Netherlands. Some time after Tasman joined the Dutch East India Company in 1634, he was ordered to explore the south-east waters in order to find a new sea trade route to Chile in South America. During this voyage, in 1642, he discovered a previously unknown island on his voyage past the "Great South Land", or "New Holland", as the Dutch called Australia. He named it "Antony Van Diemen's Land" in honour of the High Magistrate, or Governor-General of Batavia.

original copies are now held in the Caritas Office Wellington

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we have ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day because we celebrate the brave young people that fought in the war for our country. The are very brave and should be remembered and talked about for years to come.

Australian New Zealand Association Corps fought in WW1 because they were part of the British Empire and Commonwealth. Since Britain was at war with the Turks, the Australians and New Zealanders felt the duty to honor their obligation to the Empire. As for the Turks specifically, opposed to say the Austro-Hungarians, Bulgarians, or Germans, that was decided by British Command.

It means recgonising and acknowledging the sacrifice and heroism shown by ANZAC soldiers all those years ago.

The ANZACs were supposed to land on Cape Tepe but ended up landing on what was later known as ANZAC Cove, two kilometres North of the intended landing place.

Normally, there are not two ANZAC Day holidays. ANZAC Day is always the public holiday. In 2011, ANZAC Day fell on the Monday after Easter, which was already a public holiday, so there was an extra holiday on the day after ANZAC Day.

Abel Tasman's most notable discoveries were Tasmania, which he named Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand. He believed (incorrectly) that they were both part of the same continent.

Possibly major general Spencer Browne who, at the age of 58 commanded the 6th Infantry Brigade at Wire Gully, Lone Pine. Browne was a Queensland journalist, starting the Brisbane era of his career in 1888. He was adjutant at the Fort Lytton base of the Queensland Mounted Infantry prior to federation and afterwards when it became the Australian Mounted Infantry. Browne went to the Boer War as a captain and returned as a major.

Russell, New Zealand (the renamed town of Okiato) was briefly the capital in 1840. It is located 5 km south of the current town of Russell (formerly Kororareka), the first permanent European settlement in New Zealand.

In 1841,the capital was established at Auckland, on the western coast of North Island, and in 1865 moved to Wellington (formerly Port Nicholson).

There were some very famous people that were born in New Zealand. A few of the actors were Russell Crowe, Karl Urban, and Lucy Lawless.

Rosemary and poppies are pinned to the lapel on ANZAC Day (and also Remembrance Day) because they symbolise remembrance. Rosemary is a universal symbol of peace, but the poppy has a special story to it.

The story goes that, following one of the bloodiest battles of World War I, in the fields of Flanders in western Europe,when the ground was completely churned up and muddied, thousands of red poppies sprang up. The seeds had lain dormant in the soil and, after being aerated with the churning of the soil from the soldiers' boots and fertilised with their blood, the poppies grew abundantly, springing forth new life from death.

Another reason poppies came to such prominence in association with World War I is because of how they were immortalised in that most famous poem of WWI, In Flanders Fields, written by John McCrae. This poem is spoken at memorial services everywhere on both ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day.

There was no such thing as the ANZAC war. The ANZACs were involved in an entire campaign consisting of numerous battles, and the campaign lasted for eight months, from April until December.

Limited medical care would be given on the Gallipoli Peninsula and medical cases were evacuated for further treatment to Hospital ships moored off Anzac Cove. The dead were buried on the peninsula; their bodies were commonly unearthed and blown apart by artillery shells.

The first landing of Australian troops at what later became known as Anzac Cove was on 25 April 1915. They continued to land for several more months after that, as it was eight months before the ANZAC forces withdrew.

The ANZACs were the collective group of soldiers sent from Australia and New Zealand to fight on behalf of Britain. Their World War 1 was the same as everyone else's - 1914 to 1918.