Hobson asserts British sovereignty over the whole…

May 1840 CE

Hobson asserts British sovereignty over the whole of New Zealand, despite the incompleteness of the treaty signing, on May 21, 1840, in response to the creation of a "republic" by the New Zealand Company settlers of Port Nicholson (later Wellington), who are laying out a new town under the flag of an independent New Zealand.

He sends Willoughby Shortland and some soldiers to Port Nicholson on May 25, 1840, and the council of the settlers is disbanded.

Their leader, William Wakefield, will later travel to the Bay of Islands to pledge allegiance to the Crown.

His suggestion to make Port Nicholson the capital is rejected in favor of Hobson's plan for a new town on Waitematā Harbour, to be named Auckland after the Earl of Auckland.

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Edward Gibbon Wakefield View → Queen Victoria View → William Hobson View →

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Aotearoa View → Maori people View → New South Wales (British colony) View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → France, constitutional monarchy of View → New Zealand Company View →

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Colonization of Australasia, European View →

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