Christchurch: A Chronology to 1989

A timeline of Christchurch events in chronological order from 1700s to 1989.

Go to a year between 1700 & 1989

September 20, 1916: Canterbury Aviation Company founded by Henry (later Sir Henry) Wigram.
September 21, 1867: Trout introduced from Tasmania. The ova were reared in special covered ponds built in Hagley Park next to the hospital. Salmon were introduced a year later.
September 23, 1914: First Canterbury contingent sails on "Tahiti" and "Athenic" from Lyttelton for the war in Europe.
September 23, 1977: First Vietnamese refugees arrive in City.
September 24, 1881: Telephone exchange (the first in New Zealand) begins operation.
September 24, 1960: Jellie Park Pool opens.
September 25, 1965: Riot at Paparua Prison. 40 warders and police injured.
September 25, 1983: Coldest recorded day in September with a maximum of 5.9^o.
September 26, 1897: Reading of the Riot Act to an angry crowd of about 6000 in Lichfield Street as a result of religious imposter A.B. Worthington’s "Temple of Truth" fraud. Beginning in 1890, Worthington’s sect had built a ”grecian temple“ in Latimer Square.
September 26, 1945: Charles Hazlett Upham (born Christchurch 1908) awarded second V.C. for gallantry in the Western Desert, 1942. He won his previous award in Crete during May 1941.
September 26, 1968: City Council given partial control of the Estuary.
September 26, 1975: Noahs Hotel opens.
September 26, 1976: Orana Park Wildlife Reserve opens.