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- 1880 First inter-city brass band contest
- 1880 Rail tragedy on the Remutaka incline
- 1880 Sutherland Falls 'discovered'
- 1880 Tuhiata hanged for murder of Mary Dobie
- 1881 131 perish in worst civilian shipwreck in New Zealand waters
- 1881 First registered female pharmacist
- 1881 Poll tax imposed on Chinese
- 1881 First woman Master of Arts in British Empire graduates
- 1881 Invasion of pacifist settlement at Parihaka
- 1882 First frozen meat shipment leaves New Zealand
- 1883 The 'Sallies' come to New Zealand
- 1884 New Zealand Freethought Association founded
- 1884 First royal honour for New Zealand woman
- 1884 First New Zealand rugby team in action
- 1885 First sod turned for North Island main trunk line
- 1886 Eruption of Mt Tarawera
- 1886 Birth of Anchor butter
- 1886 Manawatū rail link opened
- 1887 Tongariro mountains protected
- 1888 First British rugby tourists take the field
- 1888 Anti-Chinese hysteria in Dunedin
- 1888 New Zealand Natives team plays first game in UK
- 1889 American daredevil parachutes from balloon
- 1889 First kindergartens
- 1889 First women's trade union formed
- 1889 New Zealand’s Eiffel Tower opens