31 July - William Yate returns from 6 months 'training' in printing at Sydney with a printing press. His attemps at printing are not particularly successful.[5][6] (see also 1834 & 1835)
6 November - After 3 or 4 days hidden aboard the Elizabeth while anchored in Akaroa, Te Rauparaha and his warriors attack and massacre a village[8] of local Kāi Tahu, and then cannabilising them.[7]
John Guard marries Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Parker in Sydney. She[9] leaves Sydney on the schooner Waterloo on 7 November and arrives at Te Awaiti before the end of the year. Betty Guard is the first European women to settle permanently in the South Island.[10]
Jack Duff, a trader, is the first known European to visit the Palmerston North area. He travels by whaleboat up river as far inland as Woodville and returns to Porirua.[11]
