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Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born on 18 July 1918, into the Madiba clan in the village of Mvezo, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. He is best known for h...
Entry last updated: 11/09/25
Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)
Ballantynes is a well-known department store in Christchurch. On 18 November 1947 a fire broke out in the store and many workers were trapped inside. 41 peop...
Entry last updated: 1/12/25
Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)
Parihaka is a Māori settlement in Taranaki. It was founded in the mid 1860s by Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi. At this time land was being divided up an...
Entry last updated: 11/05/26![Image: Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mathew Ahmann in a crowd.] (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Civil_Rights_March_on_Washington,_D.C._(Dr._Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._and_Mathew_Ahmann_in_a_crowd.)_-_NARA_-_542015_-_Restoration.jpg) by
Rowland Scherman on Wikimedia Commons. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en). Image cropped.](https://images.ctfassets.net/q60gmaba8x5v/1qc9fDQdeK29F6ANGfuJgY/b2803cc2b7873d86f18c39e702010525/Civil_Rights_March_on_Washington__D.C.__Dr._Martin_Luther_King__Jr._and_Mathew_Ahmann_in_a_crowd.__-_NARA_-_542015_-_Restora.png)
Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)
Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister who became the most powerful voice of the American civil rights movement in t...
Entry last updated: 14/04/26
Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)
ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. It came about in 1914 during World War One when the Australian Army and the New Zealand Army formed t...
Entry last updated: 14/04/26
Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)
The Wahine was a ferry that ran between Lyttelton and Wellington. In 1968, the ferry sank in a severe storm just off the coast of Wellington. Over fifty peop...
Entry last updated: 10/07/25![Image: In remembrance of the Tangiwai disaster, 60 years ago on 24 December 1953 (https://digitalnz.org/records/32965579/in-remembrance-of-the-tangiwai-disaster-60-years-ago-on-24-december-1953) by [unknown] on DigitalNZ. Collection: Archives New Zealand. CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/). Image cropped.](https://images.ctfassets.net/q60gmaba8x5v/tf0N9t2eIpHjniWcdwt1K/86a077991c4a787b28b12384749bb51c/Tangiwai_disaster__1_.jpg)
Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)
Tangiwai is the site of the worst railway disaster in New Zealand’s history. It happened on Christmas Eve 1953 when the Wellington to Auckland night express ...
Entry last updated: 27/11/24
Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)
The Erebus disaster is considered New Zealand's worst air accident. On 28 November 1979, Air New Zealand flight TE901 crashed on the slopes of Mount Erebus d...
Entry last updated: 10/07/25
Senior Secondary (Years 11 - 13)
There were two Boer Wars, or Anglo-Boer Wars. The first Boer War of 1880-1881 has also been named the Transvaal Rebellion, as the Boers of the Transvaal revo...
Entry last updated: 22/04/26![Image: Vietnam War (https://digitalnz.org/records/37782219/vietnam-war) by [Unknown] from Archives New Zealand on DigitalNZ.. CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/). Image cropped.](https://images.ctfassets.net/q60gmaba8x5v/5mi1NvalBdS6CiFqX0Fzn5/36cb33f38256e6ecbcf32777a5bcc036/vietnam_war.jpg)
Senior Secondary (Years 11 - 13)
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, was fought between the United States of America (USA) and the Communist forces in Vietnam. The war b...
Entry last updated: 14/04/26