1872
- April 27
- Railway north open to Kaiapoi.
- May 2
- New St Michael’s Anglican Church opens.
- June
- City’s heaviest frost -14.9 deg C (still a record).
- August 15
- Novelist Anthony Trollope visits.
- December 16
- First Interprovincial Exhibition opens.
- (no date)
- German, Scandinavian and Polish settlers arrive on the "Friedelburg".
- Museum begins excavations at Moa Bone Point, Redcliffs.
Notes
- Information for this resource was based on the second edition of John Densem’s Christchurch chronology: a history of settlement. Environmental Policy and Planning Policy Unit, Christchurch City Council, 1990.
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