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Auckland

Great Britain · Government / Tory Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1840Date range
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Chronological records

1840

George Eden Auckland, 1st1840

Auckland · Government / Tory Party Government

Gives a commission to William Hobson to sail for the East Indies, which Hobson ultimately rewarded in the naming of his new town Auckland, New Zealand in 1840

Names involved

George Eden Auckland, 1st

Provenance

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