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Christchurch: a chronology

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

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This week in history

August 25, 1920
First flight over Cook Strait (Christchurch to Trentham) by Captain Euan Dickson in a Canterbury Aviation Company plane.
August 26, 1939
Official opening of City Council’s pensioner housing project in Barnett Avenue, Sydenham; the first local body pensioner housing in New Zealand.
August 26, 1986
The worst lamb loss for a decade in Canterbury due to a wet cold August, costs farmers $2.8 million.
August 27, 1986
Visit by Deputy Prime Minister of Hungary, Dr Juzet Marjai.
August 28, 1890
"Great maritime strike" (the first of New Zealand’s 3 major waterfront strikes) spreads to Lyttelton.
August 31, 1959
Princess Margaret Hospital opens.
August 31, 1974
Death of Prime Minister Norman Kirk, M.P. for Sydenham. He had earlier been M.P. for Lyttelton, and Mayor of Kaiapoi.

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