1872

April 27

Railway north open to Kaiapoi.

St Michaels Anglican Church - 1885

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.
  More about the Christchurch Chronology.
• This resource includes links to various other local history resources on our websites and images from our photographs collection - clicking on the image will take you to a larger version of that image.