14 January – Traders led by Joe Rowe are the first non-Māori to visit the Wanganui area. The party includes Rowe, Andrew Powers, a man named Tom, and an African or African-American sailor.[1][2]
16 April – Trade in preserved Māori heads as curios is outlawed by the Governor of New South Wales.[3]
Joseph Brooks Weller arrives in Otago Harbour on the Sir George Murray and makes an agreement with local Māori claiming territory for King William IV before returning to Sydney.
^This vessel may have been the Joseph Weller mentioned in Wises New Zealand Guide 7th Edition, 1979. p.405. as having been the first ship built on the island some time after 1826.
^Armstrong, W.R. (1966). "ATKINSON, Sir Harry Albert, K.C.M.G."An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
