| Māori place names replaced |
1600-99 |
| Introduced deadly diseases |
1700-99 |
| Musket Wars - 1000s die |
1800-09 |
| Missionary schools open |
1810-19 |
| Bible translated |
1820-29 |
| Declaration of Independence |
1830-39 |
| Treaty of Waitangi |
1840-49 |
| First te reo Māori newspaper |
1840-49 |
| Sovereignty Wars begin |
1840-49 |
| First Māori dictionary |
1840-49 |
| Schools start banning te reo - children punished for speaking Māori |
1840-49 |
| Pākehā population surpasses Māori |
1850-59 |
| First Māori boarding school |
1850-59 |
| Sovereignty Wars continue |
1860-69 |
| Indigenous knowledge recorded |
1860-69 |
| Native Schools Act |
1860-69 |
| First parliament interpreter |
1860-69 |
| Bills and petitions translated |
1880-89 |
| Introduced diseases devastate |
1880-89 |
| First haka before rugby test |
1880-89 |
| Book of Mormon in te reo |
1880-89 |
| Schools compulsory for Māori |
1890-99 |
| Studies show Māori people are beginning to lose te reo |
1900-09 |
| Adults stop passing on te reo |
1900-09 |
| 1 in 10 of Māori children can no longer speak te reo |
1910-19 |
| English becomes the language of parliament |
1910-19 |
| Influenza pandemic leaves 1000s dead |
1910-19 |
| Māori children prepared for manual labour |
1920-29 |
| Last interpreters leave parliament |
1920-29 |
| Radio broadcasting begins |
1920-29 |
| Māori rarely on radio |
1920-29 |
| Pronunciation radio show |
1920-29 |
| Ngā Moteatea |
1920-29 |
| Bishop broadcasts in te reo |
1920-29 |
| Te reo blocked from curriculum |
1930-39 |
| Māori newspapers close |
1930-39 |
| 89% of Māori people live in rural areas |
1930-39 |
| Urban Māori networks begin |
1930-39 |
| WW2 update broadcast in te reo |
1940-49 |
| Te reo used to recruit soldiers |
1940-49 |
| Māori WW2 mortality rate high |
1940-49 |
| Racism after WW2 |
1940-49 |
| Urban migration |
1950-59 |
| Te reo unvalued and invisible in cities |
1950-59 |
| Māori Women's Welfare League |
1950-59 |
| More than 7 in 10 Māori children can no longer speak Māori |
1950-59 |
| Te Huinga Rangatahi - Māori Students Association |
1950-59 |
| Māori children institutionalised 10 times more than other youngsters |
1950-59 |
| Te reo o te Māori radio show in Napier |
1950-59 |
| 76% of Māori people can't speak te reo |
1960-69 |
| Māori programmes NZBC |
1960-69 |
| Korimako Speech Competition |
1960-69 |
| Te Reo Māori Society |
1970-79 |
| Ngā Tamatoa |
1970-79 |
| Language activists mobilise communities behind te reo |
1970-79 |
| Māori language petition |
1970-79 |
| Māori Language Day |
1970-79 |
| 1st national kapa haka |
1970-79 |
| Te reo in serious decline |
1970-79 |
| Māori Language Week |
1970-79 |
| The Waitangi Tribunal established |
1970-79 |
| Whakatupuranga Rua Mano |
1970-79 |
| Māori Land March |
1970-79 |
| 5% of Māori children can speak te reo. |
1970-75 |
| Rūātoki Bilingual School opens |
1970-79 |
| Te Ātaarangi begins |
1970-79 |
| Māori Language Protest march |
1980-89 |
| Students protest for te reo |
1980-89 |
| The Bridge reaches #1 |
1980-89 |
| Te Wānanga o Raukawa opens |
1980-89 |
| Regional language boards |
1980-89 |
| Ngā Kaiwhakapumau i te Reo Māori established |
1980-89 |
| First Kōhanga Reo in Wainuiomata |
1980-89 |
| Te Karere - first te reo TV show |
1980-89 |
| Te Reo o Pōneke pilot iwi radio show |
1980-89 |
| E Ipo song reaches #1 |
1980-89 |
| Dame Naida Glavish refuses to stop speaking te reo |
1980-89 |
| Poi E reaches #1 |
1980-89 |
| Te Wānanga o Aotearoa opens |
1980-89 |
| Te Māori exhibition opens in New York |
1980-89 |
| Activist band Aotearoa launches |
1980-89 |
| 1st kura kaupapa opens |
1980-89 |
| Raukawa iwi radio starts |
1980-89 |
| Waitangi Tribunal Māori Language claim lodged |
1980-89 |
| TVNZ Māori Department opens |
1980-89 |
| Te reo declared a taonga |
1980-89 |
| Mt Taranaki joins Mt Egmont as official name |
1980-89 |
| Māori an official language |
1980-89 |
| Radio Ngāti Porou |
1980-89 |
| Māori Language Commission established |
1980-89 |
| Te Upoko o te Ika - first iwi radio station launched |
1980-89 |
| Waka Huia TV show |
1980-89 |
| Interpreters and translators licensed |
1980-89 |
| Radio Aotearoa |
1980-89 |
| He Muka publication |
1980-89 |
| Kura Reo begins |
1980-89 |
| Mana Māori Media |
1990-99 |
| NZ On Air funds iwi radio |
1990-99 |
| Iwi radio for far north |
1990-99 |
| Publishing pioneers Huia Publishers |
1990-99 |
| MAI FM hits the airwaves |
1990-99 |
| Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi opens |
1990-99 |
| Mana Magazine |
1990-99 |
| Te Māngai Pāho established |
1990-99 |
| Netball international opens with bilingual anthem |
1990-99 |
| Māori Media Network launched |
1990-99 |
| Te Taura Whiri declared 1995 to be Māori Language Year |
1990-99 |
| Ruia Mai news |
1990-99 |
| Aotearoa TV pilot |
1990-99 |
| Aoraki Mt Cook |
1990-99 |
| Pūkana airs |
1990-99 |
| Mā Te Reo Fund |
1990-99 |
| Dame Hinewehi Mohi sings anthem in te reo |
1990-99 |
| Bilingual anthems at rugby tests |
2000-09 |
| Call for Matariki Public Holiday |
2000-09 |
| All schools receive bilingual anthem CDs |
2000-09 |
| Māori pop group Aaria |
2000-09 |
| Māori Television |
2000-09 |
| Te Panekiretanga o te Reo commences |
2000-09 |
| Modern Matariki promotions begin |
2000-09 |
| Māori Language Awards |
2000-09 |
| Radio Waatea opens |
2000-09 |
| Kapa o Pango haka launched by All Blacks |
2000-09 |
| Kura demands te reo bus signs |
2000-09 |
| Te Reo channel begins |
2000-09 |
| Google Māori launches |
2000-09 |
| Modern cartoons translated into te reo |
2000-09 |
| Compulsory te reo for year 9s at Kings College |
2010-19 |
| Heavy metal meets te reo |
2010-19 |
| Waitangi Tribunal Kōhanga Reo claim lodged |
2010-19 |
| Te reo Māori spoken and sung to biggest television audience in history |
2010-19 |
| 2degrees launches te reo smartphone |
2010-19 |
| English subtitles for Te Karere |
2010-19 |
| Macron debates over placenames |
2010-19 |
| Tokoroa supermarket starts bilingual signage |
2010-19 |
| Kōhanga Reo claim successful |
2010-19 |
| Pressure on party to stop supporting te reo |
2010-19 |
| Courts incorporate te reo into proceedings |
2010-19 |
| Automated macron software launched |
2010-19 |
| Retailer's anger at te reo goes public |
2010-19 |
| Te reo action movie - The Dead Lands |
2010-19 |
| Aotearoa song hits #2 |
2010-19 |
| ACU launches te reo ATM and cards |
2010-19 |
| Speech about pronouncing te reo goes viral |
2010-19 |
| Digital versions of Māori newspapers |
2010-19 |
| TV3 defends presenter speaking te reo |
2010-19 |
| Te Whare o te Reo Mauriora launched |
2010-19 |
| Te Mātāwai established |
2010-19 |
| Westpac te reo ATMs |
2010-19 |
| Maimotia song reaches #1 |
2010-19 |
| Every Wairarapa school student joins mass haka |
2010-19 |
| Te Taura Whiri focuses on Maihi Karauna |
2010-19 |
| First Māori language parade |
2010-19 |
| Netball franchise's makes commitment to te reo |
2010-19 |
| Intergenerational language transmission is better than the 1970s |
2010-19 |
| RNZ presenters begin speaking te reo |
2010-19 |
| AUT apologies after student reprimanded for using te reo in email |
2010-19 |
| Huawei's newest smartphones are reo Māori enabled |
2010-19 |
| ANZ te reo ATMs |
2010-19 |
| Te reo opinion piece slammed by Race Relations Commissioner |
2010-19 |
| Rotorua declared bilingual city |
2010-19 |
| Stuff begins macronising te reo |
2010-19 |
| Westpac considers dialects |
2010-19 |
| Iconic Welcome Home song re-released in te reo |
2010-19 |
| Auckland train announcements go bilingual |
2010-19 |
| BNZ digital banking goes bilingual |
2010-19 |
| All Auckland bus announcements go bilingual |
2010-19 |
| Oranga Tamariki name for new ministry |
2010-19 |
| Mountain range name corrected |
2010-19 |
| Waiata Anthems launched |
2010-19 |
| Te reo for Air NZ check ins |
2010-19 |
| Simultaneous translations at parliament |
2010-19 |
| Language Parades across Aotearoa |
2010-19 |
| Mojo launches order your coffee in te reo campaign |
2010-19 |
| Radio station shuts down racist caller |
2010-19 |
| Hundreds of Māori place names are made official |
2010-19 |
| Teen abused for correctly pronouncing te reo at restaurant |
2010-19 |
| Microsoft Translator launched in te reo |
2010-19 |
| Air NZ clap back after customer criticises kia ora |
2010-19 |
| First Disney film translated |
2020-29 |
| Taranaki not Egmont |
2020-29 |
| Telecommunications support the use of Aotearoa |
2020-29 |
| Rugby skippers speak te reo in interviews |
2020-29 |
| Macrons make it to Wikipedia |
2020-29 |
| Countdown incorporates te reo |
2020-29 |
| 1 million join Māori Language Moment |
2020-29 |
| NZTA now Waka Kotahi |
2020-29 |
| Translation app launched |
2020-29 |
| Kura defaced by racists |
2020-29 |
| Iwi radio broadcasting nationally |
2020-29 |
| Kura claimants apply for urgency |
2020-29 |
| Abuse after forum rebrands with te reo name |
2020-29 |
| Māori Language Moment honoured |
2020-29 |
| Anti te reo slogan gains traction |
2020-29 |
| Sky Stadium goes bilingual |
2020-29 |
| The Breeze Māori jingle |
2020-29 |
| Kura students abused at council meeting |
2020-29 |
| Weather presenter abused for saying Kia ora Aotearoa |
2020-29 |
| Airbnb host demands renters do not speak te reo |
2020-29 |
| New chart for top songs in Māori |
2020-29 |
| NPC players speaking te reo in post-match interviews |
2020-29 |
| BSA stops accepting complaints |
2020-29 |
| HRC says te reo is a human right and won't accept further complaints |
2020-29 |
| Weta Workshop to Wētā Workshop |
2020-29 |
| Hit song 35 reaches #1 |
2020-29 |
| Waiata Anthem Vol 2 debuts |
2020-29 |
| Te reo dominates music charts |
2020-29 |
| Microsoft boosts Aotearoa keyboard |
2020-29 |
| Lorde releases te reo mini album |
2020-29 |
| Māori speakers attacked as elitists |
2020-29 |
| Puna Reo launches national body |
2020-29 |
| Lion King in te reo |
2020-29 |
| AT proposes restoration of mana whenua names for stations |
2020-29 |
| Māori TV rebrands as Whakaata Māori |
2020-29 |
| Bilingual traffic signs in schools |
2020-29 |
| First Matariki Public Holiday |
2020-29 |
| Sold out Eden Park sings the anthem in te reo in unison |
2020-29 |
| 30% of Kiwis can speak some Māori |
2020-29 |
