Permanent year factsheet

New Zealand in 2008

Historical records for New Zealand in 2008, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.

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Historical records

January

11 January 2008Death of Edmund Percival HillaryEdmund Percival Hillary

Exploration / Exploration and Discovery

Hillarys death is announced by New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark during which she states that his passing was a "profound loss to New Zealand". Death of Edmund Percival Hillary

Names involved

Edmund Percival Hillary

Provenance

This page is generated from stored World History Database records matching the exact country and year shown above. Exact duplicate display records are collapsed. Records without a month are listed after the monthly sections. Source provenance varies by record; formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.