1846

June 27

Canterbury’s first armed robbery - 3 men hold up and ransack the Greenwood brothers’ farm at Purau.

(no date)

Deans brothers plant Canterbury’s first exotic tree (a pear, which is still bearing fruit today).

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• Year by Year List
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• Sources
• About the Christchurch Chronology.