 
List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1820 in New Zealand.
Incumbents.
Regal and viceregal.
Any reference to New Zealand in a legal rather than geographic sense prior to 1840 is complex and unclear. When the British colony of New South Wales was founded in 1788 it nominally included New Zealand as far as 43°39'S (approximately halfway down the South Island).
References.
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