Russell, New Zealand (2053 bytes)
1: '''Russell''', formerly known as '''Kororareka''', was the first permanent European settlement i...
9: ... law was seldom enforced within the town's area. Kororareka became known as the "Hell Hole of the Pacific".
11: ...[[William Hobson|Hobson]] was reluctant to choose Kororareka as his capital. Instead he selected Okiato, situ...
13: ...|FitzRoy]] in [[1844]]. A year later the town of Kororareka was burnt by [[Hone Heke]] at the beginning of t...
15: ...ow the name Russell applies only to the erstwhile Kororareka while Okiato has resumed its original name. The...

Hone Heke (3315 bytes)
7: ...reputation. He took part in the first battle of [[Kororareka]] in 1830, in Titore's expedition to Tauranga, an...
12: ...d. The capital of the new colony was shifted from Kororareka to [[Auckland]] with the corresponding loss of re...
16: ...flagpole carrying the British flag that flew over Kororareka. The British interpreted this as an act of rebell...

Bay of Islands (2652 bytes)
13: ...ell and [[Kerikeri]] Russell, formerly known as ''Kororareka'', was the first permanent European settlement in...

James Reddy Clendon (6917 bytes)
7: ...les (6 km) upstream from the growing village of [[Kororareka]] (Russell). Here he and his family settled, and ...
11: ...mpany]], which opened New Zealand's first bank at Kororareka in September [[1840]].
17: ...Ohaeawai. After the war he continued in office at Kororareka, by then renamed Russell, and conducted a census ...

Kawiti (2989 bytes)
7: ...en in March 1845 Heke cut down the flag pole at [[Kororareka]] for the fourth time thereby initiating the [[Fi...

First Maori War (20324 bytes)
4: *The burning of [[Kororareka]] ([[Kororareka|Russell]]) [[March 11]], [[1845]]
20: ...s that the British flag flying over the town of [[Kororareka]] signified slavery for the Maori. What made this...
22: ...ion=image.action Hone Heke fells the flag pole at Kororareka] (external link).
32: ...iversion, Kawiti and his men attacked the town of Kororareka. The garrison, of about 100 men, managed to hold ...
103: ... under arms. At the end of that year he revisited Kororareka with a large force of men and could have destroye...

Tamati Waka Nene (4633 bytes)
20: ...d ponds a year and had a cottage built for him in Kororareka, Russell. He continued to advise and assist the G...

1845 (5156 bytes)
23: ...e burning of the British colonial settlement of [[Kororareka]], now known as [[Russell]].

Auckland (17795 bytes)
28: ...ands]], served as the effective capital. However, Kororareka's geographical position made it very remote, inac...

March 11 (8125 bytes)
11: ...lers out of the British colonial settlement of [[Kororareka]] because of breaches of the [[1840]] [[Treaty of...

William Wakefield (14143 bytes)
23: ...y ship, ''Cuba'', William crossed the island to [[Kororareka]], where he chartered another ship to take him so...

Robert FitzRoy (13609 bytes)
33: ...sentment [[Hone Heke]] cut down the flagpole at [[Kororareka]]. Rather than address the problems FitzRoy had ...

Maori Wars (19371 bytes)
52: ...he capture and destruction of Pomare's Pa near [[Kororareka]]. This was a substantial Māori settlement ...

Timeline of New Zealand history (46212 bytes)
106: * [[February]]: Capital shifted from [[Kororareka]] to [[Auckland]] .

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