• Wiremu Kīngi Te Rangitāke (c. 1795 – 13 January 1882), Māori Chief of the Te Āti Awa Tribe, was leader of the Māori forces in the First Taranaki War. He...
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  • Wiremu Kerei Nikora (1853–1915), member of the New Zealand Legislative Council Wiremu Kīngi (c.1795–1882), chief of the Te Āti Awa Tribe Wiremu Kīngi...
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    Wiremu Kīngi Maketū (also known as Maketū Wharetotara or Waretotara) (c. 1824 – 7 March 1842) was the first person executed in New Zealand under British...
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  • Wiremu Kīngi Moki Te Matakātea (died 14 February 1893) was a principal chief and warrior of the Ngāti Haumiti hapū (subtribe) of the Māori iwi (tribe)...
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  • dispute between the colonial government and the Te Āti Awa people, led by Wiremu Kīngi, over the fraudulent sale of the Pekapeka land block at Waitara. The...
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    The town has a population of 1,490 (June 2024). In 1833 local chief Wiremu Kīngi Moki Te Matakātea held off a war party from Waikato for several weeks...
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    Wiremu Te Kākākura Parata, also known as Wi Parata (c. 1830s – 29 September 1906) was a New Zealand politician of Māori and Pākehā descent. During the...
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    Kīngi Tāwhiao (Tūkaroto Matutaera Pōtatau Te Wherowhero Tāwhiao, Māori: [taːɸiao tʉːkaɾɔtɔ matʉtaeɾa pɔːtatau tɛ ɸɛɾɔɸɛɾɔ]; c. 1822 – 26 August 1894)...
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  • attacked Wīremu Kingi, the paramount rangatira of Te Āti Awa, and falsely claimed that Kīngi had no ancestral right to the land. Instead Kīngi claimed...
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    hostilities. Hadfield became far less popular when in 1860, Hadfield upheld Wiremu Kīngi's claim to the Waitara block. The surveying of this land prior to military...
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    economic depression for the northern Māori. The trial and execution of Wiremu Kīngi Maketū in 1842 for murder was, in the opinion of Archdeacon Henry Williams...
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  • Zealand, 22 April 2009. Retrieved 5 October 2015. Oliver, S. "Maketu Wiremu Kingi", Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 30 October 2012. Retrieved...
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    for if he did he would be made a slave." The trial and execution of Wiremu Kīngi Maketū in 1842 for murder was, in the opinion of Archdeacon Henry Williams...
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    New Plymouth. Hāmi Te Māunu – hereditary Maori leader of Ngāti Mutunga Wiremu Kīngi – Māori Chief of Te Āti Awa, leader in the First Taranaki War William...
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    and Commissioner John Gorst. The raiders, led by Rewi Maniapoto and Wiremu Kīngi, sent a message to Gorst—who was absent at the time—to quit the property...
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    Chief of the Te Āti Awa Tribe Wiremu Kīngi holding a jade mere (painted by Gottfried Lindauer)...
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  • Kehu was married to Rere-tā-whangawhanga with whom she had three sons, Wiremu Kīngi, Matiu and Enoka. Te Kehu signed the Treaty of Waitangi on 19 May 1840...
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    selling of Māori land to the government, but when a chief of Te Āti Awa, Wiremu Kīngi got into conflict with the government over the sale of land at Waitara...
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    withheld their land from sale and by 1860 was supporting the Taranaki chief Wiremu Kīngi in his struggle with the government. Rewi went to Taranaki and took part...
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    Waitara, despite a veto by the paramount chief of Te Āti Awa tribe, Wiremu Kīngi, and a "solemn contract" by local Māori not to sell. Governor Browne...
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  • Governor Thomas Gore Browne ordered a military assault on Te Āti Awa chief Wiremu Kīngi and his people at a defensive pā at Waitara. More than 3,500 troops poured...
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    migration of some Wellington Te Āti Awa back to Taranaki in 1848, led by Wiremu Kīngi Te Rangitāke, who opposed the sale of tribal lands to European settlers...
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    of Waikato Māori travelled to Taranaki to reinforce Te Āti Awa chief Wiremu Kīngi's forces and joined in the plunder of abandoned farms, but the intervention...
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  • (2006) Vassilis Lymberis (1972) last execution in Greece Ma Jiajue (2004) Wiremu Kīngi Maketū (1842) Zainuzzaman Mohamad Jasadi (2001) Luis Monge (1967) James...
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    Charlotte Sound he secured the signature of an exiled Taranaki chief, Wiremu Kīngi, and 31 others for land whose description was near-identical to that...
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    newspaper and taking it to Kihikihi. The raiders, led by Rewi Maniapoto and Wiremu Kīngi, sent a message to Gorst—who was absent at the time—to quit the property...
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    West, now the centre of the Auckland CBD, to witness the hanging of Wiremu Kīngi Maketū. He had been found guilty of murdering five people on Motuarohia...
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  • the Manutahi pā, with all the principal Taranaki chiefs present: Wiremu Kīngi and Kingi Parengarenga, as well as Te Whiti and Tohu Kākahi, both of whom...
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  • # Name Executed Details 1 Wiremu Kingi Maketu 7 Mar 1842, Auckland First person to be judicially executed in New Zealand (although not the first person...
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  • University Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-77656-095-0. "Tarore's tale helps kids read". Stuff. 30 November 2009. Retrieved 27 July 2019. Wiremu Kīngi Maketū...
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