1895

April 23

Regular Lyttelton - Wellington Cook Strait ferry service inaugurated by "Penguin".

November 17

Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) visits. He described Christchurch as a town where half the people rode bicycles and the other half were kept busy dodging them.

(no date)

Heavy snowfall kills 350,000 sheep in Canterbury.

Bicycle Band formed.

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.