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Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1816-1854. · Public domain
Conflict Oceania

Musket Wars

1807 CE – 1845 CE · 38 years

Māori iwi fought campaigns involving muskets, shifting alliances, and displacement. Firearms spread among competing iwi during the wars.

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Musket Wars on Wikipedia.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Māori iwi and hapū in shifting alliances
  • Rival Māori iwi and hapū

Key moments

Defining events in the Musket Wars.

  1. 1807–1808 Moremonui
  2. 1820s Ngāpuhi campaigns
  3. 1831 Kaiapoi

Elsewhere in Oceania at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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1820 CE – still standing

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1830 CE – 1877 CE

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Attested 2000 BCE – 1815 CE

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Auckland

1840 CE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

New South Wales

Founded 1788 CE · attested to 1815 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Te Hau-ki-Tūranga

1842 CE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1807 CE and 1845 CE.

1807 CE New Zealand Musket Wars 1840 CE Auckland 1845 CE New Zealand Wars (Maori Wars) 1807 CE Peninsular War 1808 CE South American Wars of Independence

And in the rest of the world

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