Historical figures in New Zealand
The atlas holds 10 people and 16 moments here, from 1888 to 2018. The most recorded lives are Katherine Mansfield, Ernest Rutherford and Elizabeth II. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Scientists, across the Cold War and the Interwar Period.
Notable people
Agatha Christie
in 1922
1 moment here
English novelist, playwright, and memoirist, internationally known for detective fiction featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.…
Alan MacDiarmid
in 1943
1 moment here
New Zealand-American chemist and 2000 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, known for co-developing conductive polymers.…
Elizabeth II
in 1954
1 moment here
Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death.…
Ernest Rutherford
from 1914 to 1925
2 moments here
New Zealand-born physicist and chemist whose research on radioactivity, the atomic nucleus, and nuclear transmutation helped establish nuclear…
George Bernard Shaw
in 1934
1 moment here
Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist. Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, became a leading Fabian and dramatist,…
Helen Keller
in 1948
1 moment here
Helen Adams Keller was an American deafblind author, lecturer, disability-rights advocate, and political activist.…
Katherine Mansfield
from 1888 to 1906
6 moments here
Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, later Murry) was a New Zealand modernist short-story writer, poet, critic and diarist.…
Mark Twain
in 1895
1 moment here
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known as Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, journalist, lecturer, riverboat pilot, and traveler.…
Sebastián Piñera
in 2018
1 moment here
Chilean economist, businessman and politician who served as president of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and from 2018 to 2022.…
Vivien Leigh
in 1962
1 moment here
British actress Vivien Leigh (born Vivian Mary Hartley) was acclaimed for stage work and for Academy Award-winning performances as Scarlett O'Hara in…
Moments
- 1888 Birth at Tinakori Road Katherine Mansfield
- 1893 Childhood move to Karori Katherine Mansfield
- 1895 Karori schooling Katherine Mansfield
- 1895 Tours New Zealand Mark Twain
- 1898 Return to Wellington Katherine Mansfield
- 1900 Fitzherbert Terrace School Katherine Mansfield
- 1906 Return to Wellington from England Katherine Mansfield
- 1914 Wellington Town Hall lecture Ernest Rutherford
- 1922 British Empire Exhibition tour in New Zealand Agatha Christie
- 1925 Town Hall lecture in Wellington Ernest Rutherford
- 1934 New Zealand radio address George Bernard Shaw
- 1943 Studies and laboratory work at Victoria University Alan MacDiarmid
- 1948 AFOB tour of New Zealand Helen Keller
- 1954 Opened New Zealand Parliament Elizabeth II
- 1962 Twelfth Night tour stop in Wellington Vivien Leigh
- 2018 State visit to Wellington Sebastián Piñera