Timeline Saturday 17 March 1860

Events on Saturday 17 March 1860 1

• 1860 First Taranaki War Begins Fighting erupts over land sales in New Zealand War broke out in the Taranaki region of New Zealand on 17 March 1860 after colonial authorities tried to force through a disputed land purchase opposed by Maori owners. British troops and colonial militia fought Maori forces in a conflict that lasted just over a year without a clear victor. The war intensified Maori resistance to land alienation and fed the wider New Zealand Wars.