The Chatham Islands suffer invasion by a…
November 1835 CE
The Chatham Islands suffer invasion by a British ship carrying five hundred Maori armed with clubs, guns, and axes.
Fve hundred miles east of New Zealand, the Chatham Islanders are the Moriori, Polynesian hunter-gatherers of Maori origins who branched off from the Aotearoa nation several centuries before.
The first ship had arrived on November 19, 1835; a second shipload of four hundred Maori invaders arrives on December 5.