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5 November
1881
Invasion of pacifist settlement at Parihaka
About 1600 troops invaded the western Taranaki settlement of Parihaka, which had come to symbolise peaceful resistance to the confiscation of Māori land.
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1913
Battle of Featherston Street
The ‘Battle of Featherston Street’, in downtown Wellington, saw some of the most violent street fighting of the 1913 Great Strike.
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This Week in History
22 April
1936
Rātana and Labour seal alliance
23 April
1979
Blair Peach killed in London
24 April
1920
Prince of Wales arrives for New Zealand tour
25 April
1915
Gallipoli landings
26 April
1943
New Zealand ship torpedoed in Tasman Sea
27 April
1806
Moehanga becomes first Māori to visit England
28 April
1888
First British rugby tourists take the field