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- 1870 First game of rugby played in NZ?
- 1870 Pasifika labourers arrive in Auckland
- 1871 First public girls' secondary school
- 1871 NZ's first overseas diplomatic post created
- 1871 Telegraph Department cleared of 'hacking' charges
- 1872 Anthony Trollope begins New Zealand tour
- 1873 'The Russians are coming!'
- 1873 Julius Vogel becomes premier
- 1874 Cospatrick fire kills 470
- 1877 First woman graduates from a New Zealand university
- 1877 Former Governor Grey becomes Premier
- 1877 Chief Justice declares treaty 'worthless' and a 'simple nullity'
- 1877 Education Act passed into law
- 1878 Wellington steam-tram service opened
- 1878 Great Flood hits South Island
- 1879 Kaitangata mining disaster
- 1879 Parihaka ploughing campaign begins
- 1879 Universal male suffrage introduced
- 1879 Sectarian violence in Canterbury