Musket Wars
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The Musket Wars were a series of as many as 3,000 battles and raids fought throughout New Zealand among Māori between 1806 and 1845, after Māori first obtained muskets and then engaged in an intertribal arms race in order to gain territory or seek revenge for past defeats. The battles resulted in the deaths of between 20,000 and 40,000 people and the enslavement of tens of thousands of Māori and significantly altered the rohe, or tribal territorial boundaries, before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. The Musket Wars reached their peak in the 1830s, with smaller conflicts between iwi continuing until the mid-1840s; some historians argue the New Zealand Wars were a continuation of the Musket Wars. The increased use of muskets in intertribal warfare led to changes in the design of pā fortifications, which later benefited Māori when engaged in battles with colonial forces during the New Zealand Wars.
1807 — 1842
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Māori, 
HMS Sparrow,
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Location: -41.2, 174, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| area | region | 1841 | New Zealand | sovereign state, Commonwealth realm, island country, country, tripadvisor | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1843 | Wairau Affray | Arthur Wakefield, armed conflict, Te Rauparaha, Te Rangihaeata, John Wallis Barnicoat, John Sylvanus Cottrell, Eugene Bellairs | Wikidata |
| event | war | 1807 | Musket Wars | war, Māori | Wikidata |
| event | war | 1845 | New Zealand Wars | war, British Empire, Māori | Wikidata |
| event | war | 1865 | East Cape War | war | Wikidata |
| site | shipwreck | 1889 | HMS Sparrow | shipwreck, gunboat, Redbreast-class gunboat | Wikidata |