1893 - 1901 (8 years)
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| 1 | 1893 | - 19 Sep 1893: NZ Universal Female Suffrage
Universal Female Suffrage in New Zealand was achieved when a new Electoral Act was signed into law in 1893. New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections. The passage of the Act was the culmination of years of agitation by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and other organisations. As part of this campaign, a series of massive petitions were presented to Parliament; those gathered in 1893 were together signed by almost a quarter of the adult female population of New Zealand.
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| 2 | 1894 | - 29 Oct 1894: Wairarapa shipwreck
On 29 October 1894, in a heavy fog, the liner Wairarapa steamed into cliffs on Great Barrier Island, about 100 km out from Auckland, and sank with the loss of 121 of its 251 passengers and crew. SS Wairarapa was a New Zealand ship plying the route between Auckland, New Zealand and Australia.
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| 3 | 1899 | - 11 Oct 1899—31 May 1902: Second Anglo-Boer War
The Second Boer War was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa. Initial Boer attacks were successful, and although British reinforcements later reversed these, the war continued for years with Boer guerrilla warfare, until harsh British counter-measures brought the Boers to terms.
New Zealand sent more than 6,500 personnel and 8,000 horses to South Africa for the war, with 71 killed in action or dying of wounds, with another 159 dying in accidents or from disease.
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| 4 | 1901 | - 1 Jan 1901: Commonwealth of Australia
Australia became a nation on 1 January 1901 when six British colonies — New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania — united to form the Commonwealth of Australia. This process is known as Federation.
- 15 May 1901: 1st Automobile Offence
Speeding Offense: Nicholas Oates appeared in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court charged with driving 'a motor car within the city at a speed greater than four miles an hour' (6.5 km/hr) on Lincoln Road, Christchurch. The excessive speed had frightened the horses of George Gould, whose carriage was standing in the road near the hospital. Oates and his business partner Alexander Lowry owned Zealandia Cycle Works, the largest bicycle factory in New Zealand or Australia in the late 1890s. In 1898 he had become the first person to import a car into the South Island. At the time of his conviction for speeding there were only seven motor vehicles in Canterbury.
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